Part of the issue with using a seasonal event as a timeline is that everyone still enters the timeline at the same time.
I'm looking forwards to my 4th Moonfire Festival. I got one in 1.0 and I've been there for both in 2.X. But if a new person were to start playing, then those never happened.
It brings up another problem with MMO continuity. These events are more for an IRL timeline that's been inserted into the game world. For lack of a better concept, it's basically a FF8 time compression. There are all these things happening, our own time ones continue, but the world around us is effectively timeless.
How else do we explain Domans and Au Ra popping up from seemingly nowhere for new players?
I'm looking forwards to my 4th Moonfire Festival. I got one in 1.0 and I've been there for both in 2.X. But if a new person were to start playing, then those never happened.
It brings up another problem with MMO continuity. These events are more for an IRL timeline that's been inserted into the game world. For lack of a better concept, it's basically a FF8 time compression. There are all these things happening, our own time ones continue, but the world around us is effectively timeless.
How else do we explain Domans and Au Ra popping up from seemingly nowhere for new players?