Yes yes, I know the topic's been brought up before in general, put away your pitchforks trolley trolls 
I know people are constantly wanting a portable song player so they don't have to listen to the boring Crescent Occult theme one more time. Honestly I'm one of those people, that song is seared into my brain and it makes me want to shoot my own foot.
In any case my understanding is that the game's terrible audio engine only has 2 channels for BMG where the secondary one takes over in special circumstance (mount or battle theme). This makes it particularly difficult to implement something new in most areas due to how closed minded the engine is presently, eh what can you do the system's more than 10 years old. Here's the part I'm curious about though, was it ever considered to implement a portable orchestrion available to use only in non-battle / non-mount zones? In other words, in major towns and possibly a few other unique scenarios.
Anyway it was just an idea that popped into my head. Odds are they'll never bother, even though I do believe the addition of something like this would actually give some value to the bajillion song rolls they try to sell for 3-5 bucks in the cash shop XD. Then again, with implementation it's always a question of "how much work" and "is it worth" rather than "is it possible" so maybe they'll see some value in it someday?
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I know people are constantly wanting a portable song player so they don't have to listen to the boring Crescent Occult theme one more time. Honestly I'm one of those people, that song is seared into my brain and it makes me want to shoot my own foot.In any case my understanding is that the game's terrible audio engine only has 2 channels for BMG where the secondary one takes over in special circumstance (mount or battle theme). This makes it particularly difficult to implement something new in most areas due to how closed minded the engine is presently, eh what can you do the system's more than 10 years old. Here's the part I'm curious about though, was it ever considered to implement a portable orchestrion available to use only in non-battle / non-mount zones? In other words, in major towns and possibly a few other unique scenarios.
Anyway it was just an idea that popped into my head. Odds are they'll never bother, even though I do believe the addition of something like this would actually give some value to the bajillion song rolls they try to sell for 3-5 bucks in the cash shop XD. Then again, with implementation it's always a question of "how much work" and "is it worth" rather than "is it possible" so maybe they'll see some value in it someday?
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