Get rid of eorzea time and just use real time

[SkyeWindbinder]

People generally don't care what time they log on as long as events and in-game happenings are consistent. I also don't think anyone has ever felt bad about logging in past sunset in any of the MMOs I've played.

But here's the thing: People shouldn't have to miss out on seeing daytime in an mmo because they can only play at night, nor miss out on seeing nighttime in an mmo because they can only play a few hours during the day. I know, I know, some of you "don't mind", but others may want to see what the world looks like in the daytime as well as the nighttime, and not be restricted to seeing only one specific time of the day in their mmo. I'm sorry, but the OP's suggestion is just not a very good one.

[AkiRouscelia]

This would never work. From a design perspective one needs to consider the impression that a day and night cycle will have on players, on an aesthetic level it's pleasing for the eyes and gives way to refresh what we see frequently.

From a player-based view point it would be even worse. For my content LS and I we begin events at 21:00 JST - playing in perpetual darkness would be a real downer.

[Zhyrios]

Don't forget people like me - who live in Australia are probably going to pick an NA server as i doubt there'd be an oceanic server, so it would be daytime when it's night, and night when it's day. which is just silly.

[Alhanelem]

This would never work. From a design perspective one needs to consider the impression that a day and night cycle will have on players,

It worked perfectly fine for many other games.

Don't forget people like me - who live in Australia are probably going to pick an NA server as i doubt there'd be an oceanic server, so it would be daytime when it's night, and night when it's day. which is just silly.

Maybe, maybe not- don't count it out just yet, they could add oceania servers (If they did, it probably wouldn't be right away though...

WoW made servers that were set to oceania time zone(s), though they at least originally weren't physically located there.

I wasn't sure if this idea was going to be popular or not, but i couldn't begin to imagine how vehemently against it people seem to be, considering how common it is outside of the FFXI MMO-verse.

But seriously there is very little positive to gain from this idea.

There's a ton of positive gain. It eliminates a very common confusion that occured in FFXI, and makes the ingame experience more consistent with real life experience. e.g. an hour is an hour, not 5 minutes, etc. To me eliminating this would be a huge boon not having to think about two different units of time at all times (because some things are based on ingame time and others are based on real time). Outside of changing to real time, the only other way to solve this problem is to have all timers based on either real time or ingame time, and not use both.

[Riv]

People who are only able to play certain times of the day would always be playing at the same time in game....no thanks.

[Alhanelem]

People who are only able to play certain times of the day would always be playing at the same time in game

So what? it's not important. It doesn't affect these people's ability to play the game.

Beyond that, I don't know ANYONE that 24/7/365 could NEVER log in at a different time of day ever for any reason.

Most of the time I log in, it will be evening. That doesn't mean I'll ever be able to log in during the day, it will happen sometimes. Beyond that, you can always pick a server in a different location if you really absolutely cannot ever 100% log in at the time of day you'd rather be on at. But I can't imagine many people having this issue.

Go play WoW for 5 minutes. Ask around if anyone cares what time of day it is in game. if you get more than one person to say they wish they could experience different times of day, i'd be extremely suprised.

Well, I give up on this. apparently people really love their eorzea time.

[LlenCoram]

To be completely honest, I've never once heard this complaint... It seems like you're trying to solve a problem that only affects a small minority. Unfortunately your solution causes problems for more people than those who benefit from it.

I'd call it a non-issue, but that would be rude. Maybe it's more of a... it's less a problem than you're making it out to be.

[Alhanelem]

To be completely honest, I've never once heard this complaint... It seems like you're trying to solve a problem that only affects a small minority.

It's not a complaint. It's a suggestion- but it affects lots of people.

Unfortunately your solution causes problems for more people than those who benefit from it.

This is totally subjective. Most of the people complaining about the idea wouldn't even notice it was in place if we didn't already have Eorzea time. I guarantee you if it was like this from the beginning, nobody would complain. Nobody complains about it in any of the other games that have it.

I'd call it a non-issue, but that would be rude.

Actually I prefer it when people are honest.

[DubstepNinja]

This is totally subjective. Most of the people complaining about the idea wouldn't even notice it was in place if we didn't already have Eorzea time. I guarantee you if it was like this from the beginning, nobody would complain. Nobody complains about it in any of the other games that have it.

Most scenic shot takers would not like this

[Alhanelem]

Most scenic shot takers would not like this

Most scenic shot takers could find some time out of their life to log in in the other part of the day to take some shots- its not something that requires hours and hours to do.

But apparently, most everybody that has only played FFXI or FFXIV apparently would not like this. I'm honestly amazed at how much hate there is on this. Other games have it and nobody complains. I don't understand it.