Personally, and I want to emphasize personally, I feel as though the time the developers have put in the game for day and night and the time bubble in general is more of a game mechanic than lore. The more I think about the information that has been provided, and thank you all for the massive amount of information given, the more I tend to feel that this is another Lore vs Game Mechanic argument.
While it is completely understandable as to why the time bubble is there for new players to experience the storyline in ARR at a set time so that everything happens chronologically, I still find it hard to believe that we as roleplayers, characters that divulge away from the game mechanic of being a warrior of light, being the only Whitemage(Shots fired), and being this path driven character that is set by the developers would follow something set for the story rather than the stories we are writing everyday. As Roleplayers, we deviate from the game mechanics and base our world off the lore we know. Because of this cross over, I am starting to feel it will never be possible for everyone to agree on the dates or time. There are the gray areas that are going to be debate and somethings are as black and white as they can be such as IC resurrection....Right? Again, I think it all boils down to the player and how they personally feel about what is given.
What I won't understand is if this time bubble is there to give new players a chance to feel that they are there in the story of ARR and the bubble will shift for the expansion then....What happens to the players starting fresh again? Do they go back in time? No, they start in that year of the story and move forward. When I explain this to my friends who I want to join the game I literally tell them "It's a Final Fantasy that you play, it feels like a Final Fantasy, it sounds like one, it looks like one, and it has a story like one. The only difference, is you have one character that goes through the story and you occasionally have to group with other people to progress. Then when you finish the story, it's like any other MMO."
Personally, I think the community is the blood of the game rather than it's story. The story, while nice, will never change, but each and every day on our server will be unlike any other. I tend to like the thought of that.
Thanks again for all the help and interest. Sure saves me the time from finding this myself! And hey, maybe we will get lucky someday. It took Blizzard 10 years before releasing an official timeline for WoW and 25 years for us to receive one for Zelda.
Cross your fingers.
While it is completely understandable as to why the time bubble is there for new players to experience the storyline in ARR at a set time so that everything happens chronologically, I still find it hard to believe that we as roleplayers, characters that divulge away from the game mechanic of being a warrior of light, being the only Whitemage(Shots fired), and being this path driven character that is set by the developers would follow something set for the story rather than the stories we are writing everyday. As Roleplayers, we deviate from the game mechanics and base our world off the lore we know. Because of this cross over, I am starting to feel it will never be possible for everyone to agree on the dates or time. There are the gray areas that are going to be debate and somethings are as black and white as they can be such as IC resurrection....Right? Again, I think it all boils down to the player and how they personally feel about what is given.
What I won't understand is if this time bubble is there to give new players a chance to feel that they are there in the story of ARR and the bubble will shift for the expansion then....What happens to the players starting fresh again? Do they go back in time? No, they start in that year of the story and move forward. When I explain this to my friends who I want to join the game I literally tell them "It's a Final Fantasy that you play, it feels like a Final Fantasy, it sounds like one, it looks like one, and it has a story like one. The only difference, is you have one character that goes through the story and you occasionally have to group with other people to progress. Then when you finish the story, it's like any other MMO."
Personally, I think the community is the blood of the game rather than it's story. The story, while nice, will never change, but each and every day on our server will be unlike any other. I tend to like the thought of that.
Thanks again for all the help and interest. Sure saves me the time from finding this myself! And hey, maybe we will get lucky someday. It took Blizzard 10 years before releasing an official timeline for WoW and 25 years for us to receive one for Zelda.
Cross your fingers.
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