How much time has gone by...

[Anonymoose]

eg. one of the NPCs at the Doman Enclave saying it's been a year since the failed uprising (ie. what caused Yugiri and the other refugees to travel to Eorzea). Does that mean it's been a year since the post-ARR events when the refugees arrived there, making the rebellion concurrent with ARR? Or was Doma destroyed a year prior to that?

That line about the Doman Uprising in the Doman Enclave would be the one line Anonymoose doesn't want to get into.

Bingo, lol.

There's no telling whether it's a slip-up, whether the Garlean War of Succession began earlier than we knew (the XIVth Legion was cut off, after all), or if it's a deliberate effort to move time (which, if it was, why didn't any other dates move *with it*?)

Who benefits from a time bubble?

ObsidianFire did a better job than the list I was cobbling together but...

Flip side, who is the time bubble harming? As far as I've been able to gather, the damage is limited to one type of person: anyone who can't wrap their head around the idea that just because the open world year hasn't visibly changed doesn't necessarily mean that everything in the game must have happened in under 365 days. If you disentangle those two concepts, it's more of a blank check than a cage, isn't it?

Is anyone else suffering a drawback aside from, "If it all happened in 365 days or less, my immersion is just shattered!"

If the devs had anticipated a need for moving dates, they could have planned from day one to purge all references to "years ago" in favor of "in the year blah blah" in the open world while deliberately attaching dates to the MSQ, leaving side, job, etc. quests to say "Eh, it took place somewhere between the start and end of that patch's MSQ dates," but it seems a little too late, now.

The "It's been one hell of a year." so-called-hard-canon interpretations have typically been a tad tongue-in-cheek, like Homer Simpson's "What a week!".