Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

There is no way to know their intent behind currently not allowing macros. It could very well just be a half-assed implementation - sort of like no separate UI for all the notes.

From Letter from the the Producer XXXIX: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4464381

We would like to see players practice to perform songs, rather than enabling all players to perform the same song the same way, so we have not made performances compatible with macros. Even if your tune might be a little bit rough, there is a certain beauty to manually playing your own unique melody.

[Skivvy]

From Letter from the the Producer XXXIX: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4464381

Oh snap, I stand corrected. Thanks for the link, I had not seen this.

[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.

[Dyvid]

As said before, some macro support would be nice.

[Kahnom]

Too bad I can’t perform high-tempo song with current system so I’m gonna stick with Acoustic and Ukulele songs for now.
Hmm ... Maybe doing some Miku’s songs might be interesting.

[Dyvid]

I will say some of the videos on Reddit, wow.

https://twitter.com/50chiffon/status...249089/video/1

[Zfz]

It's possible to translate MIDI instrument input into keypresses and just play on the MIDI instrument to trigger the corresponding keypress in FFXIV. So it's literally impossible to determine if they were done "legit", though.

Which just goes to show that the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately there will be a proper Perform HUD in 4.2, so I'm looking forward to that.

[Alleo]

I will say some of the videos on Reddit, wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWn6sVRxCZc

https://twitter.com/50chiffon/status...249089/video/1

And the first one is not available anymore. ö_ö Seems that they are a bit more serious about these rules then with other ones.

[Alaina]

unpopular opinion but I think it ranks up there with diadem and pvp as being the biggest waste of development time and resources so far in this game.

[Nora_of_Mira]

unpopular opinion but I think it ranks up there with diadem and pvp as being the biggest waste of development time and resources so far in this game.

im gonna go out a limb here and suggest that programming music notes to an animation is no where near the development cost of PvP or Diadem. unpopular opinion, sure +1. well thought out opinion, probably not.