Quote Originally Posted by Nefiiria View Post
I don't like the idea of this time bubble. Like I said in my last paragraph, it makes absolutely no sense how time could be "stopped" when events clearly have happened.
Time is not "frozen" like you are implying. Events in the story still happen in order. The game just never records how much time has passed between events. That is left entirely up to the player.

It all goes along with how the FFXIV team wants to let everyone experience the story in their own way. For some people it takes less then a year, for other people it takes a year per expansion; for some people it takes five years, for some people it takes ten years... The game devs really don't care about that.

They do care about having a consistent date to use as a reference point though and that is "five years after the 7th Umbral Calamity". Anytime you see something along the lines of "x event happened y years ago", we as players know that means "x event happened y years ago in relation to the 7th Umbral Calamity".