New music ~ Uematsu?

[PEANUT]

Is Uematsu going to continue making music for FFXIV? Is there gona be new music or is it already all made and thats it? Sorry if theres been news about it, I couldnt find anything on this here on the forums. Thanks!

[Bowen]

I believe that Uematsu-San is no longer working on the music team.

[NefGP]

I believe that Uematsu-San is no longer working on the music team.

He left SE years ago. They still hire him by contract now & then for certain titles, but AFAIK he closed down his studio ages ago when he started up his rock band "The Black Mages". Actually, IIRC, SE pretty much shut down their entire in-house music department and work purely by contracting composers/artists now.

Even Naoshi Mizuta, who's been doing all the new tracks for XIV since after launch as well as all of XI's expansions, isn't directly under SE's employ.

[Ruisu]

Even Naoshi Mizuta, who's been doing all the new tracks for XIV since after launch as well as all of XI's expansions, isn't directly under SE's employ.

False! Naoshi Mizuta is currently still working under Square Enix.

[indira]

I hope Naoshi Mizuta is the dominate musician for FFXIV the work done on FFXI was memorable.

[NefGP]

False! Naoshi Mizuta is currently still working under Square Enix.

That's not what I read years ago. He's still under contract with them, yes, for XIV and probably a few other things. But he's not a full-time employee of SE - I told you, they shut down their music studio to save money because it was costing them way too much to keep doing what they did all those years with Nobuo.

[Valmonte]

good that man needs a break, besides its time for somebody else to take up his BGM mantle.

[PEANUT]

Aw :\ Im wondering did he make the Garuda battle theme?

[Zenaku]

Aw :\ Im wondering did he make the Garuda battle theme?

Don't think so most of music was made by the other members of the team i like one battle theme that remind me a lot of kingdom heart battle theme in the main town. at least it sound a lot like kingdom heart version there is a member there who did a few songs for kingdom heart lol.

I don't think uematsu have been doing any of the new songs issue why most of the songs fail is he did not have a working game to base it off just screenshot and ideas if he had 2.0 from day one i bet the songs would have been 10x better.

[Rau]

I don't think so. He made most of the stuff that was in the game before team restructure. Most everything else is new i believe.