Can we take action against Bard Macro Player yet?

[yesnt]

Personally it really hurts that no one cares about bard performing anymore. It's not fun or entertaining anyone at this point, everyone has their perform volume turned down because "who cares about one more midi bard player, no one is playing legit bro"

Bard music doesn't sound good regardless of skill. It's a fun gimmick, but if you stand in a popular place where I want to hang out in peace, I will turn you off because the random noise is not as fun or entertaining as you think.

[TheMightyMollusk]

For every good bard player I've seen, there have been a dozen or more who just stand around mashing buttons just to be obnoxious. I turned performance volume off for sanity's sake.

[Nadda]

I get it, some people aren't musically talented enough, some just want to play songs, and I feel that is fine if you are just playing for your friends and such.

But what bothers me is when you pretend you ARE playing songs and acting as if you are so great because you let a third party tool play it for you.

It's really annoying walking into towns and just hearing it sound like people just throw midi keyboards down a flight of stairs.

There are people, such as myself, who actually practice playing these songs, and we get immediately overshadowed by people who just press play on a program. There is no competition, we lose because it's impossible for us to play songs at a normal place without either conforming to third party software ourselves, or hooking up an actual midi keyboard (which I would be more okay with!).

I think the bard macro playing has gotten way out of hand. It's really annoying and off putting.


Playing songs is one of my favorite things to do in FFXIV, I practice for hours every single day, and now I have to turn off performance completely because it just isn't fun anymore trying to play music for people, but getting immediately decimated by someone who can press play, make a sandwich and come back without putting any effort into learning any song what so ever.

Uhm for those who don't know one of the in game sound options will lower or turn off bards playing their music for you.

I know it bothers some people, but others like the bard bands and just chilling out.

Hopefully that mends the divide.

[DiaDeem]

[Nadda]

Oh I like that guy