Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Keridwyn]

Honestly? I think that 'Perform' should be a single button that activates 'Perform Mode' where all the buttons are arranged on their own hotbars. Like when you enter a PvP zone or hop in a vehicle for a quest and unique hotbars come up. This business about making macros to swap my archer hotbars with my bards is honestly for the birds, especially if they're going to be expanding on this system.

Second, I'd enjoy a way to save at least a couple of songs under their own buttons. Just one or two at most. I understand the lack of macros but if you're trying to pick out something yourself and don't really have a tune in mind, if you don't write it down once you find something you like...oopse.

[Selova]

So i have quick question about this, sorry if it was already asked. As long as we don't stream/record it in any way, are we allowed to play songs from other FF games?

[Granyala]

So i have quick question about this, sorry if it was already asked. As long as we don't stream/record it in any way, are we allowed to play songs from other FF games?

You can play whatever you want unless you monetize it.
Dear Lord why are people so ridiculously paranoid about copyright issues?

If your kid grabs a flute in Kindergarten and plays a melody by ear, do people expect it to be sued too?

As long as you are not a popular streamer, making money by performing, you have NOTHING to worry about. That screen you agreed to is nothing but meaningless "just in case" legal-blah that will never need to be acted upon.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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Dear Lord why are people so ridiculously paranoid about copyright issues?
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I do believe there was an update to the terms of service mentioning the possibility of being banned over it.

[Kohdo]

I do believe there was an update to the terms of service mentioning the possibility of being banned over it.

Just like they do with parsers. Except they and everyone else knows that they don't have the sheer manpower to police such a thing, so the policy is just there in case they need to act on it.

[MichiKyou]

I have tested the instruments. Notes would be easier to read if they had the letters on them.

Colorblindness makes it harder for my partner.

[Granyala]

I have tested the instruments. Notes would be easier to read if they had the letters on them.
Colorblindness makes it harder for my partner.

Arrange the bars like a piano. Then you don't need letters.
Real instruments don't have these things either.

which means each time you want to play a new song you have to ditch the old song you worked hard to set up and set up another one.

See above and play in real time.
I agree that they should provide it's own interface, because using existing hotbars to manually plant in 37 actions is a little ... eeh.

[MichiKyou]

Arrange the bars like a piano. Then you don't need letters.
Real instruments don't have these things either.

That would be useful.... if I knew how to play or read a Piano.
I'm not a musician, but I do like music. I have to read the tooltips to know what note i'm playing.

[Alien_Gamer]

I think it was a missed opportunity to do this exclusively with the Bard Job and not also with house instruments.

[Mikki]

I was honestly pumped but with how they chose to set it up, I'm left quite disappointed. It seems ridiculous that macros can't be used for this and we have to rely on setting up our hotbars for it, which means each time you want to play a new song you have to ditch the old song you worked hard to set up and set up another one.

Couldn't we choose to go into perform mode and this would allow us to save hotbars for different songs or have a different UI if they won't allow us to use macros? Or allow us to write out a song, play it and save it to a scroll of some sort? Then by using the scroll it would play back the song as we recorded it? I don't know. This seems quite tedious as it is....