DEV REQUEST: please let us toggle FATE music

[Gemina]

i still think "hard to miss" is one of the best songs of FFXIV :/ , but yeah make it optional and evey1 is happy

Don't get me wrong, I love it too and I know if I were to hear it years after no longer being a part of FFXIV, the nostalgic tears will flood my face. But right now it is nails on chalkboard.

If I walked into a FATE I would normally pass up and it started playing From fear to fortitude, I would participate without even thinking about it.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

That FATE notification sound is also background music though. Toggle off ALL BGM and that gets turned off too. I'd think it goes without saying that the request to toggle off FATE music includes the notification sound.

It's not that I consider it bad music, it's just something I don't want to hear if I'm not looking to kill FATEs. Some people don't want it at all, me, I'd toggle it off for normal adventuring and back on if I'm in a FATE grind for whatever reason.

[Clethoria]

i still think "hard to miss" is one of the best songs of FFXIV :/ , but yeah make it optional and evey1 is happy

Good doesn't mean everyone can endure a 10 hour loop.

[Jadub2k]

One Of the Reasons I'm hoping for new Main Battle & Fate Music right here.. 4 years of the same melody is just too long lol

[KisaiTenshi]

As the title says, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us toggle FATE music on/off in system settings.

If I'm on lvl 60 sitting at a S rank waiting for people to gather I'm not interested in hearing the battle music from the lvl 3 FATE I'm standing in. If I'm out gathering Ramie on BTN I'm not really interested in hearing the FATE music my nodes happened to spawn in. If I'm just riding through a zone jamming out to the mount music from my Rose Lanner I'm not interested in that music being interrupted because my path takes me through a FATE. In short, anytime I'm not actively clicking "level sync" to join a FATE, I don't want to hear the music from it. FATE music is generally annoying and disruptive IF you aren't participating in the FATE. If you are, then it's completely appropriate.

This game has an amazing music track, but FATE's are responsible for me toggling off BGM 90% of the time. Show this thread some love. If we can get enough traffic or likes it might actually end up on the Dev Team's radar.

Perhaps go one further and allow toggling the music off for each specific dynamic music mechanic.

eg,
Turn off general combat music.
Turn off general overworld music.
Turn off levequest music.
Turn off FATE's music and the chime tone when you enter/exit/fail/pass a FATE. Maybe even just "turn off combat music while not as a combat class"
Turn off the duty's combat music, while leaving the duty's normal music up, or turn off the duty's normal music as well
Turn off the boss combat music
Turn off storyline music (not sure why you'd want to except to dub over it for a video)
Turn off mount's music/reconfigure mount's music.

While I enjoy the music in the game, it's the repetitive nature of some of the music gets a bit much. In other games I've played, I eventually turn the music off because you can only deal with the same music track so many times being reused, before you just get sick of hearing it. Fortunately most of FFXIV's music isn't shrill, but just like in the console games, the same combat music OVER and OVER and OVER gets tiring.