Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
It doesn't matter that no time passes in Springfield because there is no story, no overarching plot, things just happen whenever and the order doesn't really matter. It makes no difference that it's always the same year.

FFXIV experiences a linear passage of time, things happen, they take time to happen, they lead to other things happening and all these things happen in a specific order. It eventually becomes rather ridiculous that the year never changes.

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Honestly, the time bubble sucks. We get threads like this quite often, variations of 'how much time to you think has passed' and it could be interesting to talk about but instead the replies always become about the time bubble and the damn Simpsons of all things.
They've outright admitted that the bubble only exists in order to lighten their workload but people still treat it like something that's supposed to be taken seriously when discussing the lore, setting, story, etc. despite being an inherently ridiculous concept.
It's specifically something that's not meant to be taken seriously.