Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Malzian]

*chuckles* Now you know how I feel as an IRL alto-flute player.

LoL. I can see that. I play the guitar, so it's just all the more annoying for me. XD

I like the idea -- however I really wish the developers would've spent more time on the things the community actually wants -- like Egi/fairy/lunchbox glamours, a glamour log (coming soon?) a Coerthan housing area, a male bunny suit and so on.

Yes I realize that those require varying amounts of time - but they're things that we've been asking for for YEARS.

I know the team went to all this trouble to make individual notes playable... but it's just more of a neat little thing that will die off in a week than something that's actually cool to do. I say this being a player of three instruments IRL.

Actually the community has asked for it for a while, though not quite as fervently as other things. Personally I did want it but that was because of how LotRO handled music (Look up 'Weatherstock' on YouTube and enjoy).

In that game you used an emote, /play, to go into performance mode and then you could use the skill keys to play notes with the modifier keys to change notes. But they also incorporated the ABC file system to automate the process of playing songs where you could do '/play <songname>' and it would use the file '<songname>.abc' to play the song. The benefit of that being that there are also tools to take midi files and convert them to ABC files directly.

It meant you could record a song in midi, convert it and play it back in the game easily. But then Turbine is a US company, so there were the inevitable covers of copyrighted songs which SE can't afford to have happen as a JP company.