Everybody I know has always gone off RL years = vidya years. After all, I'm sure most people don't go off the ingame day/night cycle. "Oh... it's night... let's wait a few minutes." And so they equate RL days with Eorzean days. The logical extent of that is using years for the same as well. I'd hate for some truly major (like, for example, the fall of Ishgard) to happen in 3.0 and them to put a very specific year on it, causing a divide between people who RP the timeline different. I've also yet to actually encounter anybody ingame who roleplays that it's still the year it was assumed to be when ARR launched, so maybe the divide will be less even than one would think. It remains to be seen.
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