seaons changing in game, your thoughts?

[Denmo]

I can't imagine it being that hard to make it so any outside area can realistically simulate rainfall, snowfall, and hot weather (mirages, anyone?).

What I want to see is the seasons reflecting our Earth. Days don't need to. We can just say that Eorzea has 6360 days to a year (yay math). Really fast spin! Really wide orbit!

I mean, we can always go to the beach if we're tired of the cold, but when I go walk about Limsa in mid-January, I wouldn't mind seeing snow-lala's, and fight snow-rats outside.

[kaboro]

maybe even change what monsters spawn adding some variety =o

Seasons and different mob spawns according to season....sounds like Ryzom, and yes it was indeed an awesome concept that worked very well.

[Niqote]

I am really certain that before FFXIV was even out there were a few interviews that said they would do season effects/changes... went out the window with the terrible launch I will assume...

[Alerith]

Just read the OP.

I'd would be all for Dynamic weather like that.

[Nabiri]

I posted a few weeks back a thread asking if 2.0 would have more variety in biomes for zones, and then last night i started to wonder how cool it would be if you could see the seasons change on occasion. like fall in gridania, the leaves would be orange (or something).

like adding a bit more flavor to zones so they feel different on occasion.
it might not ever be implemented, sure, but i still find myself thinking about it.

if this topic has been discussed i apologize, the closest i could find was something related to weather and mud puddles

It would be amazing if they added this in some later expansion. :3 I've always hoped for changing seasons.

[Rutelor]

It's a cool idea but that is too much work. 2.0 is only 3 months away from beta so it's too late to make such big changes. Even if it wasn't too late, you should get it by now that SE is all about doing minimal work and not going above and beyond.

Regardless of my issues with SE, I just don't see a company that, in an industry first, decided to completely replace client, servers, maps, and restructure systems, interface and most such structures within their game--I repeat, don't see it--as something that qualifies for the description you summarize as being "all about doing minimal work and not going above and beyond."

Thought I'd share.

R

[Esk]

TBH, I would love to see weather and seasonal effects, I doubt it would be ready for 2.0 but it could easily be added in over time as part of the story.
- Events have changed how the world rotates so now they get more earth like seasons where as before they were more as are kinda thing.

But different mobs. npcs go back to camp or into caves, some races get really grumpy an there ears flop down lol.
SE do need to make sure they push forward with the game.
Tera (like it or not) has given mmos a push forward with the collision/physic used in combat..
I really want to see FFXIV push even more.

An real seasons and effects would be a good move in that direction, I think anyway.

[UmJammerSully]

I believe it's roughly 4-5 real days to 3 Eorzean months, so having the season change once a week would be pretty awesome and you could have an Eorzean yearly cycle done in one real month.

Would be cool to have some areas that can't be accessed in winter due to snowfall blocking cave entrances, but have frozen water that can be crossed to access areas. Could probably think of stuff like that for every season if you're more imaginative than me.

[Keruvinde]

caves getting blocked by snow sounds cool :O high and low tide around beaches sounds interesting too