I love some music in FFXIV but the daytime field music is generally far, far too repetitive to encourage me to keep music on. Idyllshire during the day is probably the worst for me. It really needs more variation in beat. It shocked me upon finding out on YouTube that it's over three minutes, because it really does feel like the same thing over and over and over and over and over and urgh. I'd say you only really notice 50 seconds of it and most of that is just a couple of different instruments playing the same beat, with about 10 seconds of a different melody.



The night theme is significantly more pleasing on the ears, but it still suffers the repetition of melody. I like it because I have a thing for piano-focused music but yeah, it showcases the general problem. In an MMO, you really need to have a LOT more variation in the music if you're going to be hearing it over and over for months/years.