The snowy weather in main cities

Hi everyone.
With the New Year holidays approaching, I remembered something about the festive weather in the game's main cities. If I recall correctly, last year the New Year weather (snow) was turned off literally just before New Year's Eve — on December 31.
It seems a bit odd to remove snow right before the New Year begins, in the middle of winter. Could you please extend the snowy weather for at least two more weeks?

They have a separate event that follows the christmas event, for new year, and it's unlikely they will completely redesign the aesthetics of it when the patch containing the data for it is due to release imminently next week and will already have undergone its final build.

Oh. Right. But it's not about decorations, it's about weather. Maybe it's somhow can ruin cutscenes, but i guess devs can manage to set fixed weater on some cutscenes where it's needed, like the one with fireworks.

And also if not on this New Year hollydays, maybe devs can mange it next year.

It's fairly bad for them to leave the Starlight Celebration snow weather enabled for an extended period of time as it makes 4 big fish impossible to obtain for the duration of the event.

Have you noticed that Eorzea is in the South Hemisphere of the star?
Did you know that countries that are close to the Equator Line don't have snowy weather?

I don't know the lore reason for why there's snow in Starlight festival, but it must be magical snow. Since it's basically automated to only appear for 15 days of the year, always the same days and then gone for a whole year.

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Originally Posted by Brandr

Have you noticed that Eorzea is in the South Hemisphere of the star?
Did you know that countries that are close to the Equator Line don't have snowy weather?

I don't know the lore reason for why there's snow in Starlight festival, but it must be magical snow. Since it's basically automated to only appear for 15 days of the year, always the same days and then gone for a whole year.

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We live on a planet that somehow doesn't have timezones, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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Originally Posted by Brandr

Have you noticed that Eorzea is in the South Hemisphere of the star?

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No it isn't. Frozen region to the north, desert and tropical to the south. Eorzea has to be in the northern-hemisphere temperate zone, even if we didn't have the view from space to confirm that it's north of the equator.

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Late edit here because I never got to replying to further posts at the time (I wrote a long thing and then the computer ate it) and it seems too late to bump the thread:

Yes, the first picture in that link is photoshopped, as clearly indicated in the description, to overlay the familiar world map onto the globe. The unaltered globe is shown in additional images.

No, there is no single equator line drawn on the in-game world map. There are fine lines spreading out from multiple compass roses, resulting in horizontal lines at different latitudes.

While most of Eorzea is broadly Europe-inspired, Thanalan appears to be based on northern Africa, where the Sahara desert is.

I wish the FFXI team could give us that Jeuno Christmas song for the holidays in the Jeuno zone, and a orchestration.

Also Christmas remix for the main city states could be cool too.

Let fish have some hollidays as well!

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Originally Posted by Celliera

It's fairly bad for them to leave the Starlight Celebration snow weather enabled for an extended period of time as it makes 4 big fish impossible to obtain for the duration of the event.

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I know it doesn't interfere with the Gridania one that requires Rain, because the game considers the Snow weather as valid too, but IDK about others

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Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe

I know it doesn't interfere with the Gridania one that requires Rain, because the game considers the Snow weather as valid too, but IDK about others

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It affects Carp Diem (Old Gridania), Spearnose (The Goblet), Sweetnewt (The Lavender Beds), and Twitchbeard (Mist). You might be thinking of Stormdancer in new Gridania which has 100% uptime during the event.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

No it isn't. Frozen region to the north, desert and tropical to the south. Eorzea has to be in the northern-hemisphere temperate zone, even if we didn't have the view from space to confirm that it's north of the equator.

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Could you provide the source of that photoshop?

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Originally Posted by Brandr

Could you provide the source of that photoshop?

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You can just go to the moon and look at Etheirys to confirm for yourself.

Personally I could care less though if there is snow in a weird region in a fantasy game after all it is a fantasy game, a final one in fact.

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Originally Posted by Celliera

It affects Carp Diem (Old Gridania), Spearnose (The Goblet), Sweetnewt (The Lavender Beds), and Twitchbeard (Mist). You might be thinking of Stormdancer in new Gridania which has 100% uptime during the event.

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Yes, point is, people made mention years ago that Snow conflicted with the Gridania one, and SE made it so that Snow was considered a valid weather for it to be catchable. So they should just make the other City-State based Big Fish also be catchable in Snow, and TBH I'm not really sure why they haven't yet


As for the fact that Eorzea gets snow at all, Coerthas used to be very green in 1.0, and now it is not. Bahamut did a number on the Aether/Elemental Balance of the world, and a lot of things don't work how they used to when it comes to weather. If the Lore says that Coerthas got flash-frozen 5 years ago and hasn't warmed up since, I can also absolutely believe that it gets cold enough to snow at times in the other City-States

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Originally Posted by Celliera

You can just go to the moon and look at Etheirys to confirm for yourself.

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Determining where the Equator Line is while looking at the planet while being on its magically created satellite...

I must admit I have no idea, knowledge and skills to do that. Can't even imagine how to begin the experiment...

Anyone wonder why we even post here? Nobody from Square ever replies or even shows an indication that the feedback was read. Responses are always from community members who volunteer to post refusals on Square's behalf. It's so bizarre.

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Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe

As for the fact that Eorzea gets snow at all, Coerthas used to be very green in 1.0, and now it is not. Bahamut did a number on the Aether/Elemental Balance of the world, and a lot of things don't work how they used to when it comes to weather. If the Lore says that Coerthas got flash-frozen 5 years ago and hasn't warmed up since, I can also absolutely believe that it gets cold enough to snow at times in the other City-States

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You may have a point there. But it only snows inside the city. Give a few steps outside the city and not a single drop of snow can be found.

I'd love to see snow everywhere, it's so beautiful!

Although, I'm not convinced Eorzea is in the north hemisphere, the Photoshop in the Reddit topic Celliera provided seems hell-bent on being white-european-centrist than to prove anything. Also, there isn't any hot deserts in Europe.

Our in-game world map has
the equator line seems to cross Eorzea above the Black Shroud.

But we don't know if the horizontal axis is well represented in the world map., or even known to Eorzeans.

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Originally Posted by Brandr

You may have a point there. But it only snows inside the city. Give a few steps outside the city and not a single drop of snow can be found.

I'd love to see snow everywhere, it's so beautiful!

Although, I'm not convinced Eorzea is in the north hemisphere, the Photoshop in the Reddit topic Celliera provided seems hell-bent on being white-european-centrist than to prove anything. Also, there isn't any hot deserts in Europe.

Our in-game world map has
the equator line seems to cross Eorzea above the Black Shroud.

But we don't know if the horizontal axis is well represented in the world map., or even known to Eorzeans.

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Oh I'll bite... it was determined back in this old thread on the 1.0 forum over a decade ago (and as Celliera pointed out, just go to the Moon and look up at Etheirys Hydaelyn above - the Three Great Contintents (of which Eorzea is a part), are in the 'northern' or upper part of the planet, as is Tural and the Sharlayan islands. The southern hemisphere or lower part of Hydaelyn is mostly empty save for Meracydia (the large wedge shaped continent, which is a rough amalgam of Australia and Africa), and the South Sea Islands chains (which are more like Hawaii and other Pacific islands).

Of course there was some discussion in that thread about perspective being entirelly subjective, but unless something was mentioned in the lorebooks (which I do not possess), I still hold that determination as correct. I am totally happy to be proven wrong though!