Time Travel and you

[Enkidoh]

The thing is though, if time travel was hypothetically added in a future expansion where the player physically travels into the pre-Calamity past, it will not be the 1.0 zones the player travels to, but a 'past' version of the ARR zones - how many players realize that most of the ARR zones actually retcon 1.0's maps? For instance, Gridania and the Black Shroud are an example of this, certain landmarks and sections of the map have been completely changed to locate these features in totally different places to where they were in 1.0, without any real explanation as to why (i.e., the CNJ's Guild was actually in the far north-west corner of Gridania instead it's now located where the aetheryte plaza in 1.0 was, Lifemend Stump is now on the completely opposite side of Gridania to where it was in 1.0, the now partially buried Gelmorran Ruins were located in the far northern most point of the North Shroud, now they're close to Fallgourd Float (which was not a village in 1.0 but just an 'aetherial gate') even that abandoned airship dock in the South Shroud, was actually in the North Shroud in 1.0. You see my point? Even Coerthas might not escape this - "don't you know? It has always snowed in Coerthas."

At the very least these changes would be reflected in the maps in any potential time-travel excursion in a future expansion, thus invalidating the main reason players seem to have to want to go to the pre-Calamity Eorzea in the first place (to relive the 1.0 areas). It's time to face reality, 1.0 is gone and is never coming back.

Personally, I just think SE are going to stick to the Echo to show the past in the game, as a Wings of the Goddess-style expansion featuring actual time-travel would not really work here I'm afraid.