Get rid of eorzea time and just use real time

[Seraphe]

I guess I would like the 2~3 hour day.

[hikoneko]

If this happens, it's not gonna be good for us since this is a Japan based game after all, so I think the game time would be adjusted to Japan timezone most likely if they really want to sync real-life time and in-game time. I like this idea but it's just hard to make it work for players in different regions.

[Ozak]

I would hate this. I know a few people would can only get online at night. So they would be forced to play the game at night all the time. I'm sorry but that would get old quick.

I would like to see longer days and nights but not real time.

[HamHam]

Is there a dislike button? I want one!

[Matsume]

What the . . . . ? What does in game lore have to do with the question?

Maybe if you were to fully read my post and truly grasp the meaning of it's content you would understand how our real world calendar is incompatible with the game lore in regards to the application of elements to days of the months.

Since you probably wont read it, i'll make it short and to the point: In game months are made up of 32 days each. EACH MONTH HAS 32 DAYS IN GAME OKAY? It can't be synchronized to real world calendar and never will.

/close thread

[AlexNiculaie]

Actually you would be wrong, still. You could do a game hour to real life hour. He wasn't asking to make days/weeks/months match, just hours. Either way, it's a bad idea.

By the by, if you overcame your pedagoguery, you could easily have compacted your point to a sentence. Sometime info bombing is actually counterproductive.

[Tinks]

No.


/10char

[Lirion]

The problem with this is that those who can only play a couple of hours a day would never get to experience the game during night or day depending on when their gaming hours are set and they would miss out on events that happen during nights for example. It's an interesting idea but I don't think it would work that well in practice.

[Matsume]

Actually you would be wrong, still. You could do a game hour to real life hour. He wasn't asking to make days/weeks/months match, just hours. Either way, it's a bad idea.

By the by, if you overcame your pedagoguery, you could easily have compacted your point to a sentence. Sometime info bombing is actually counterproductive.

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One of the primary reasons for both FFXI and FFXIV having game time is because the servers were all in a central location and people from a wide range of time zones around the world connected to the same servers, so game time helped make things consistent. But FFXIV is moving to regionally-located servers, so I think it would be a good idea to just have day/night match real life, with servers in each region being set to the time zone they're located in (most likely PST in the US, JST in Japan, GMT in europe).

This would also eliminate confusion between the two time systems e.g. "Is that over the next real life day / jp midnight? or is it just one game day?" and prevent the ingame date from going drastically out of line with the time the game as originally set in as the years go by (in FFXI, the game started in the 900s C.E. and the current date in game is 1166 C.E.).

Oh he IS talking about an entire time system and not -just- lighting correspondence. He is actually talking about days, weeks, months and years corresponding to real life calendar...

How do I say...No, you sir, are wrong.

[Shadowedge]

I'd be against this. As someone who works very long hours during the day, I'd really only get to see the game at nighttime. Which looks great, btw. But I'd like variety in the game, no matter what time I play.