Oversight - in-world time zone

[Serilda]

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.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

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.

[Rakiria]

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

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.

[Edewen]

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?

[Rymm]

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

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

[Hyperia]

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

[Celef]

Eorzea is flat that's why