Pretty much what Franz said...
As (per the Lore team) time in Eorzea exists in a time bubble. It does not advance along the real world cycle because it is an MMO and they cannot exclude new players from old content. So... technically... less than a year has passed between 2.0 and 3.0 in terms of the MSQ. However, this is not really conducive to RPing, so we're forced to make concessions and most people consent to RP real time passage or just avoid aging their characters.
I personally say Sounsyy is 31 or 32 depending, but am vague on which. Early thirties also works for me.
But here's the official answer:
As (per the Lore team) time in Eorzea exists in a time bubble. It does not advance along the real world cycle because it is an MMO and they cannot exclude new players from old content. So... technically... less than a year has passed between 2.0 and 3.0 in terms of the MSQ. However, this is not really conducive to RPing, so we're forced to make concessions and most people consent to RP real time passage or just avoid aging their characters.
I personally say Sounsyy is 31 or 32 depending, but am vague on which. Early thirties also works for me.
But here's the official answer:
Fernehalwes Wrote:Before I move onto question two, allow me to veer off onto a little tangent: there have been several threads about Hydaelyn’s timeline not matching up with Earth’s. If it has been two years since the release of the game, why is it still 1572 in Eorzea at the time of patch 1.23? This is a dilemma faced by a lot of MMOs. To allow everyone that joins the game, regardless of when they do, to experience the full story, there simply has to be a stoppage of time. Okay, not really a stoppage, but more of a time bubble in which a span of about a year is contained. This is why that for the duration of 1.0, Eorzea was in a perpetual 1572. Think of it as the same thing that’s happening in the Simpsons. 23 seasons gone and Lisa’s still 8, Maggie’s still a baby, and the gummy Venus still tastes oh, so sacrelicious. Pushing time along would also mean changing 1000s of lines of NPC dialogue, updating quests, webpages, etc. with every patch. Meaning it would take more than double the time to release updates, and I’m sure most people wouldn’t want to wait. In a book, movie, offline game, a strict timeline can be set without too many complications. In an online title, there are just too many variables, so we ask that you bear with our bending of space-time. It’s for the greater good!
Quote:Q: Long ago, you mentioned that 1.0 took place in a “Simpsons Time Bubble.†Are we still in a bubble? Or does time move now that we know Patch = Canon?
Fernehalwes: It’s still a bubble; you have to have a bubble. There are players joining in Heavensward that are starting at the beginning. The bubble’s just gotten bigger.
