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Hi, Aytanhi. What you describes seems less do to with macros, and more to do with people interrupting your songs. Which, I can assure you, happens to everyone unfortunately. Like many people in this thread, some people get jealous and envious of other’s playings, so they interrupt them. However, one thing in particular stuck out for me:
Or when someone who accuses you of using macros intentionally comes over to spam notes all off of the basis of trying to interrupt your macro song even though you are playing the instrument legitimately by hand, and this has happened numerous times.
I think you only have yourself to blame for this one, in both good and bads ways. It’s a compliment to be called a cheater, because your criticizers thinks you can’t be that skilled. On the other hand, you brought it upon yourself supporting the “Anti-Macro” campaign. You reap what you sow. You are against macro’s so vehemently and spread this air of… superiority and competitiveness that it literally came back to bite you as people accuse you of using them. Whoops.
We have had many members lose interest in making and writing music because of macros. We even made our guild’s music sheet private because of what happened to our sister guild Cmaj in the EU.
Again, I can’t see how this makes sense. How does macros affect your private affairs? And, again, I’ve said it many times here, and people keep dodging it: This game’s soundtrack was made by macros. Almost the entire thing. You bought a game, whose has a soundtrack, sold separately as well, that is living proof of my claim that the public does not care.
Heck, I’m listening to Through the Arbor right now because I’m about to play it. And guess what? I’m listening to the macro’d Synthesia version because it’s superior to the noisy live version.
The only specific reason I have heard in opposition to macros in this thread that is in any way valid is that some musicians are competitive and don’t want to be up-staged by superior quality music in the public sector. And you have none of my sympathy. In fact, you’re actually bringing out my wrath because these pedantic and juvenile calls for change basically amount to nothing more than jealousy.
I don’t speak for Anet, they run the show. But, it’d be a little hypocritical of them to ban macro music in a game, in which the soundtrack is macro music. Again, you’re on a forum of a game made of the thing you’re criticizing so harshly. You’re poisoning the well you’re drinking from.
Or even worse, when people start heckling you because you accuse a macro music player who lies about playing their music by hand and their nearby listeners and donors say that you are jealous because you’re not as good as a musician as the macro user.
If I was there, and someone was insulting someone else’s music, I would certainly be on the accusers case as well. Who the heck are you to insult someone else’s music? Again, the public’s concern about macro and live is only superficial, they are really only interested in the audio quality. For you to insult someone else’s music is rude. Just as rude as someone interrupting your songs. You’re the problem you complain about; you’re part of the group of people you’re here citing as “ruining it for you.” You contribute to that toxic aura you’re complaining about.
And just to clarify something and probably really get under your skin, people who make macros are musicians, like this game’s composer(s).
Needless to say, if you think macros convey no advantage in this game, you need to reconsider your policy even when it comes to musical instruments.
So far, this entire discussion seems to be stemming from two different things:
#1: People aren’t respecting other people and their music.
#2: People are being competitive in an environment that does not support that.
I’ll augment what I said in my last post: If you played GW2 Instruments with the goals of improving your skills and/or providing entertainment to others, you would not care about whether music came from macros, or sheets, or tabs, or otherwise.
