(06-17-2015, 02:26 PM)Spiritual Machine Wrote: One of the biggest differences between Eorzea and the real world is that Eorzeans are not living in a digital age, where news and information from across the realm are readily available to all. There is plenty about each region of Eorzea that we don't know--and can't know--because our characters don't possess the shared and stored knowledge of every person who lives in every corner of it. Even in a big city, a few rumors here and there will only scratch the surface of everything there would be to know and see if the citizens had iPhones.
Add to this the fact that most Eorzeans are illiterate and there is no public education system in any of the three city-states.