Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

yep you are correct however they could of been placeholder icons used at the time but i have a feeling they cut the macros as they fear people would use this to recreate other songs and have copyright issues.

I feel like Square's fear of possibly being sued over a Perform-recreated third party song is... going to sort of kill some enjoyment and usability of this feature in the end. x.x I already sort of put it away, so to speak, the moment I realized how many keys there are and the utter lack of any kind of macro ability - even to just use one note!

Might give that hotbar swapping tip Zfz mentioned a try later, though.

[Stigmar]

Yep I hear ya on that its a shame that really this patch features are pretty much DOA and i swear the content of patches has been getting less and less with each expansion

[Yasminou]

What gets me about the macro inability is that... in the stream where Yoshi showed it off, I could have sworn he had different singular notes macro'd to buttons for easier playing access when he performed Dragonsong. I remember 1 2 3 icons instead of these color buttons. Would be nice if we could at least macro them that much. :c

And I am pretty sure that they immediately said that it will not be the case for us. He way playing Perform God-mode .

[Stigmar]

I am really surprised there are no macro commands which kinda makes this useless and a waste of development time would of preferred the resources to go to getting the items stack 999 in this patch over a half baked idea which wasn't fleshed out for use ability.

[Lazaruz]

I question the decision to not give us a means of muting Perform (and only Perform)
Had the suspicion major locations would become incredibly grating to visit thanks to people randomly playing (and that's assuming they're not doing it just to be an ass). And my initial impression so far seems to lean on my gut reaction was completely right

[Nora_of_Mira]

The lag between pressing the keys is absolutely the worst. If anyone has ever played an instrument uses this, they would recognize that not hearing the note INSTANTLY is a major turn off and screws up any kind of timing. I played around with it for a bit playing 5 notes back and forth as fast as the system would play them and I was literally pressing the next key while the previous note was just playing. It messes with my head way too much to enjoy.

[Kohdo]

I love the idea but the whole system is needlessly convoluted and seems like an afterthought. The logistics of setting up skill bars full of notes using some workaround wherein you copy your bars from Bard to Archer or something...I'm still working it out.

The idea is great, the ambition is there, but the execution feels like it wasn't thought through.

[Flarestar]

It should have its own UI as having to use the current combat bars is cumbersome, it needs a Performance-specific mute/volume control, and the icons are useless and should be the actual name of the note.

[Skivvy]

The idea is great, the ambition is there, but the execution feels like it wasn't thought through.

I feel like this sums up a lot of things implemented by SE.

[illutian]

I like the concept. I just wish they'd throw those of us with zero musical talent a bone.

Archeage did this by using MML, so even us musical illiterate could compose songs. :\

I don't mind having the manual way, but I'd like to also have an automated way. SE could even chip in and release MML versions of all their songs.

BTW: MML is a standard, so I don't believe there's any licenses for the language to worry about.