THE TIME HAS COME!

[Elexia]

NPCs that survive/still exist will more than likely refer to the old world just like in XI people still referred to Tavnazia even though you can never visit it. The only issue is it's hard to have NPCs on the same timeline as the players...every NPC still refers to 17-24 years ago even though hundreds of years have past since then.

I'm still wondering how they're going to manage to 'conclude'.
I mean... lets say you finish the 'final boss'. But the servers aren't going down for a few more days, so it can't really be 'the end'.

I guarantee they're going to stretch the conclusion out to coincide with the introduction of 2.0 Alpha.