I was not happy with the change from Fire2 to Fira, but my point was that it became a new tradition so I can deal with it an move on. If they wanted to insert a new fanfare theme and go with it for future installments I probably wouldn't like it, but I think it is line with the treatment the series deserves.

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here are far more dramatic changes one can make than a victory fanfare and that's why I don't get the big deal. I can understand people being upset about poor gameplay, poor characters, poor story, etc. But when people say "it's a different victory fanfare and this makes it no longer an FF" then my mind gets thrown a bit.
Because we have lots of other threads to complain about all of those
I've been trying to say that it is the victory fanfare in concert with a bunch of other factors that make it not feel like a FF title.

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I still think it's predominantly do to with Nobuo not doing this one. I don't know for certain who has the tune copyright but it could well be that either the old or the new composer made a request for it to be different so that they can say "this is my work, nobody else does it as it's something I feel is tied to myself rather than the FF series". I'm sure they did think it over but there is more than one party to consider and I imagine that when the new composer was finally told he can have the entire game to himself, he would have been pretty annoyed if he was told that all the music that isn't going to be talked over is not allowed to be his own work. The lead composer should always be the one who created the "lead music" - I'm talking more theme music and intro music here than fanfare, but I imagine fanfare could be seen in a similar way.
Interesting, I have never thought of that angle before.

If you were asked to compose the music for FF## you would probably be way more excited than for RPGx. That is because FF has a name and history behind it. If on the same token you feel above paying homage to that name and history you are a selfish douche bag. Of course I feel most creative types are predisposed to that anyways.