Oversight - in-world time zone

While looking up at the sky in-world and contemplating our star, I noticed the most peculiar thing...


Othard, being a distant continent, shares exactly the same time as Eorzea...
How is that possible? This has to have been an oversight, right?


I'd expect Othard would at least be 6 hours ahead of Eorzea, it's a bit of an immersion killer when you realize they share the exact same time, even though they are so far apart.

Its not an oversight. They told us it would be this way and to just imagine it being different times. Everything will always be Eorzea time though.

You seriously wanna tell me that THIS is an immersion breaker to you?`

Oh dear.........


Listen, I already got Eorzea Time, Local Time and Server time on the top right of my screen. I dont need another 10 clocks to keep track of during the next expansions.
I also would feel that it could get way too confusing for gatherers to keep track of all different times of the day.

So it wasn't an oversight, it was just lazy? I can't possibly imagine it would be difficult - they already have a weather system, they'd just need to set the sun in different positions (wouldn't even need to touch Eorzea Time as a clock, I'd be fine with that).

I don't understand why this wasn't something that was considered. And don't tell me this would take serious development time, it's literally just about setting the direction the light source is coming from.

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Originally Posted by Faliandra

Listen, I already got Eorzea Time, Local Time and Server time on the top right of my screen. I dont need another 10 clocks to keep track of during the next expansions.
I also would feel that it could get way too confusing for gatherers to keep track of all different times of the day.

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See, just because you're in a different continent doesn't mean time of where you left off has changed - you'd still only need Eorzea Time to figure out when nodes spawn and when. That doesn't change, you can still coordinate everything on a single measuring unit.

No, it is an oversight, as they said that due to the distance, Othard and Eorzea will be in different time zones. Gamerescape even confirmed it during their media tour.
https://twitter.com/gamerescape/stat...36026701975552

Are we seriously complaining over aspect that would normally make gathering nodes harder but was skipped for our own convenience?

Just like I am able to appreciate the finer, smaller details such as the fact that the wind doesn't always blow in the same direction (and it reflects on the foliage and cloth and tails and hair), how the weather changes, how certain creatures are blind and only react to sound and others have a cone of vision, of how your hearing and sound propagation is affected whether you are inside a cave, a house or outdoors...

Are people really angry that I am noting this? Are you also saying you'd rather weather effects didn't exist because fishing is hard? May as well complain time didn't exist at all, because gathering would be easier?



I was commenting on how, for all their attention to detail, they let this one slip. Why are you angry at me for simply pointing it out? Jeez.

No one's angry.

Its just that details like this arent on many people's priority list.

Theres a lot lot more that needs to be worked on before I start worrying about time zones.

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Originally Posted by Aronys

No, it is an oversight, as they said that due to the distance, Othard and Eorzea will be in different time zones. Gamerescape even confirmed it during their media tour.
https://twitter.com/gamerescape/stat...36026701975552

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Not an oversight, just priorities.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Q24: The Aldenard region, where the adventures up until now have taken place, and Othard, the region including Doma, are very far apart. Will there be different time zones, similar to real life?

A24: From a lore perspective, there are time zones; however, we have Eorzean time ("ET") as the local time, so please think of ET as that area's local time when you teleport to that zone. Basically, don't worry too much about it!

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Originally Posted by ErryK

Not an oversight, just priorities.

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I understand. And I also don't.

I just don't comprehend why this would be a difficult thing to do, I mean heck, even with rain and wind in combination the game calculates where the water goes - again really small details that aren't ever important in the big picture but they are all there!
It just boggles my mind that they clearly went the extra mile for some things and let this one slip.




I'll stop posting now.

It's not an oversight. At Fan Fest they were asked the exact same thing and explained that it would make coordination complicated (which it would; it's common to sync things up to ET on my server and making PFs where you aren't sure which in-game region people are in would be a real headache, especially as the map expands). I already have to calculate a time difference from my real world timezone for a lot of activities in the game. Surely just pretend it takes a few hours to travel there each time or something and tune out the already-immersion-breaking ET clock in the corner of the screen. Job done.

It ticks me off a bit that things are described as 'lazy' so easily nowadays when it wouldn't have taken long to do anyway and multiple sources have had them explain why they actively chose to do something one way or another. Companies make bad decisions, sure. Rushed content, there's plenty. Mistakes? Yep, we get those too. But lazy? This team is anything but lazy.

ET is ET, still Eorzean Time not Othard Time. They don't need to change the time. They just have to adjust daylight and night for the sun and moon.

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Originally Posted by Odstarva

I just don't comprehend why this would be a difficult thing to do

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Look, it's not difficult, it would just hurt the gameplay, even if only in a minor way, and not benefit immersion enough. So they actively decided against it, it's not a "oh yeah let's just not do that" it's a "this might cause more problems than it's worth, so not doing it will be the smarter move."

Alternatively, the world is flat.

Having been around the raiding scene in mmos for oer a decade I can tell you that the average person can't figure out real time zones, what on earth makes you think in game time zones are a good idea?

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Originally Posted by MuseTraveller

Are we seriously complaining over aspect that would normally make gathering nodes harder but was skipped for our own convenience?

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It wouldn't be the forums without someone complaining about something or other. :rolleyes:

Think of ET as the Hydalyn version of UTC we have here on Earth.

Eorzea is flat that's why