Time to save the day with Five Minutes in MS Paint! *
For those who don't quite get what the hells Fernehalwes is on about with his bubble analogy:
![[Image: 5VyRXZr.png]](http://i.imgur.com/5VyRXZr.png)
When 2.0 came out, the "bubble" of time was small and spanned only from release (1.0) to current content (2.0). With each subsequent release of patch content, the MSQ grew in size and the time spent in-universe progressed. In other words, the bubble "got bigger" and then spanned from 1.0 to 2.55. With the release of HW, we now have a timeline that spans from 1.0 to 3.0.
What's important to note is that anyone new to the game these days is always entering at the same place and time in the bubble. It just so happens that with the re-release of FFXIV (a.k.a. ARR) that 1.0 content is no longer accessible. New players join up and hop into the bubble at 2.0, and they gradually progress and catch up with the rest of us, whether we be at 2.55 or 3.0 or whenever.
Essentially, the situation is elastic.
* Bubbles are not to scale, and the scale depicted should not be taken to be indicative of the relative length of passages of time.
For those who don't quite get what the hells Fernehalwes is on about with his bubble analogy:
When 2.0 came out, the "bubble" of time was small and spanned only from release (1.0) to current content (2.0). With each subsequent release of patch content, the MSQ grew in size and the time spent in-universe progressed. In other words, the bubble "got bigger" and then spanned from 1.0 to 2.55. With the release of HW, we now have a timeline that spans from 1.0 to 3.0.
What's important to note is that anyone new to the game these days is always entering at the same place and time in the bubble. It just so happens that with the re-release of FFXIV (a.k.a. ARR) that 1.0 content is no longer accessible. New players join up and hop into the bubble at 2.0, and they gradually progress and catch up with the rest of us, whether we be at 2.55 or 3.0 or whenever.
Essentially, the situation is elastic.
* Bubbles are not to scale, and the scale depicted should not be taken to be indicative of the relative length of passages of time.
![[Image: 1qVSsTp.png]](http://i.imgur.com/1qVSsTp.png)
