[ SPOILER ] Appreciation: Thank you VERY much Dev Team...

[Anonymoose]

Yeah, to be honest I think they really need to bite the bullet and say at least a year has past. I know it has issues but saying we have done everything we have done in the space of a year is getting beyond ridiculous.

My (Very) Unpopular Opinion:
For me, it's equally odd that people can't seem to get over it. (Especially after we made it all the way through XI without a date change.)

The open world is frozen to prevent inconsistencies for people who've made different progress, and so the dev. team doesn't have to run calculations and update flavortext all the time. But it's vague in the same way the WoL isn't all that expressive so the player can interpret things how they want to.

What's from stopping anyone from treating the game as though it's taken a year? Or as though every patch really is three months? 2 weeks of activity and 2.5 months of waiting here, 3 active months there? Everyone can have a personal timeline exactly how they want it using the default "frozen time date" as a universal reference point and no one can say they're wrong.

I'm continually bemused that this isn't seen as liberating, lol.