It’s a great place for sharing music quickly and easily, and some of it is even available for a free download. Increasingly, studios and composers are strutting their musical stuff on SoundCloud. World of Warcraft: Christmas and Halloween tunes.Lord of the Rings Online (Fileplanet download).Anarchy Online: Shadowlands (FTP download).I still find it amazing what you can find when you poke around a studio’s public FTP server.
To get you started off right, here is a bunch of soundtracks - some complete, some a smattering of files - that are made completely free by the studios or composers. So in the spirit of Christmas and sharing, today I’m going to show you how you can get your ears on more than 120 soundtracks and scores from MMOs, MOBAs, and other online titles - some of which are free and legal for the taking. However, every so often I do discover a studio release somewhere, and I try to keep an up-to-date log on these to help others in their quest for video game scores. The sad truth is that so much music from these games is never officially released in any capacity, which is why I scour YouTube for fan rips of the music files. One of the most common questions that I’m asked from my adoring throngs on the street is, “Justin, where oh where can I get some of these marvelous MMO soundtracks that you talk about all of the time?” OK, that just never happens (on the street, that is), but people are often curious how they can go about starting to amass an MMO soundtrack collection or where to find their favorite album.