Fifteen years ago...

[Aysun]

So you're taking it upon yourselves to push the in-game time forward? I mean nothing in the game actually suggests that two additional years have passed. There's nothing in the game to suggest that any definite amount of time has passed. Technically it is but the game doesn't treat it like any long stretch of time. From the time we arrive in Eorzea to the time we finish off the current story, no specific amount of passed time is stated and the flow of events is such that it could be an incredibly short period of time.

If you've played the storyline at all over the past two years, you'd notice plenty of things that indicate time has passed. The most notable being the big glowing ball of death in the sky transitioning slowly from a small moon, to what it is now. The grand companies launched, and over time, recruited us and formed the Alliance once more. There have been posts on the lodestone over the last two years "ICly" from NPCs from the in-game papers, noting these changes as they have been happening.

Time has passed, it would be silly to think that all this has happened and it hasn't. Using real-world years just makes sense, considering things like the seasonal events coinciding with ours in the real-world (Starlight festival/Christmas, Heavensturn/New Year's, etc).

To me it just seems like SE wants it to be fifteen years since Mor Dhona to now (Dalamud falling). Thus launch would have been 13 years. I'll probably just update my dates as such. Would be nice to get a concrete "this is the current year" out of them, but I don't think it will happen.

[Arcell]

If you've played the storyline at all over the past two years, you'd notice plenty of things that indicate time has passed. The most notable being the big glowing ball of death in the sky transitioning slowly from a small moon, to what it is now. The grand companies launched, and over time, recruited us and formed the Alliance once more. There have been posts on the lodestone over the last two years "ICly" from NPCs from the in-game papers, noting these changes as they have been happening.

Time has passed, it would be silly to think that all this has happened and it hasn't. Using real-world years just makes sense, considering things like the seasonal events coinciding with ours in the real-world (Starlight festival/Christmas, Heavensturn/New Year's, etc).

To me it just seems like SE wants it to be fifteen years since Mor Dhona to now (Dalamud falling). Thus launch would have been 13 years. I'll probably just update my dates as such. Would be nice to get a concrete "this is the current year" out of them, but I don't think it will happen.

Time has passed yeah but there's no indication as to how much really has. Dalamud has descended but that was in large chunks each patch. If the game were really measuring time it could have been very quick.

Using real time may make sense in the real world but you can't expect the game lore to reflect that, especially when it clearly has a different time scheme set up.

As with most games, the only real measurement of the passage of time is story events. Time tends to only progress as the story does.