Implement Orchestrated Music

[SupaCancerion]

Whether or not we get an orchestrated soundtrack, something needs to be done with the music. I wouldn't say that it's really bad and I like some of it (Coerthas, Mor Dhona, The Black Shroud and La Noscea all have good music in my opinion), but all of it is extremely repetetive and even if I like the tune I find myself wanting to rip all my hair out after a few hours of playing, so most of the time I just keep it off. Also some of the music isn't really fitting to it's surroundings. Take LL and Thanalan for example; the "grand" nature of the music for LL really just doesn't go with the peaceful oceanside atmosphere of the city. Thanalan's music is too "uplifting" and orchestral for the region's arrid landscape. I think some tribal percussion or maybe even some arabic sounding music would fit Thanalan better, and for LL maybe an acoustic guitar piece (think Balamb from FFVIII). As for the battle tunes, seriously what was Uematsu thinking??? We need orchestral battle music, or even something of a more electronic nature, not some stupid pop guitar crap. It completely destroys immersion. Battle music needs to be entirely replaced I think.

But the biggest problem is the repetitive nature of the music; even if it's good it gets annoying. I think the music should change with day and night cycles, so it's not playing over and over and over. Maybe they could even have the music just stop during the night time. I mean, walking around in LL at 3:00 in the mornin with "duuuuuuun DUUUUUUUUUN DUUUUUUN" all over the place is just a lil much! Having the music only play during the day or having a seperate score for night time would make a huge difference (the first solution would be a lot easier for the devs I think). But really this is all just one humble player's opinion; honestly they have more important things to work on, but I really hope they look into this in the future. It's something that has bothered me from the beginning.

I think Hitoshi Sakimoto should compose some music for FFXIV. I love his music in FFXII and Tactics.

I completely agree, this style of music would fit this game much better than what we have now.