Instead nothing has changed. He's been hanging around on luxury yachts looking like a Michelangelo sculpture just as he was last year.
He won the Champions League, scoring the last goal of the game and ripping his shirt off, just as he did two years ago.
And Real Madrid are drawing up a new contract for him, just as they were three years ago.
And for as long as time stands still, he keeps on getting new opportunities to do what he has wanted do since he first kicked a ball about in the Santo Antonio neighborhood of Funchal on the island of Madeira – win something with Portugal.
It is now 12 years since he was a beaten finalist on home soil when Greece won the tournament in 2004. He was a quarter-finalist four years later in Austria, and a semi-finalist in Poland and Ukraine in 2012.
There were high hopes again two years ago when Portugal went to the World Cup in Brazil with huge expectations and no shortage of local support. He was the FIFA World Player at the time and had just won the European Cup.
But the team's luxurious Royal Palms hotel in Caminas, Sao Paolo was turned into a Ronaldo-obsessed circus from the moment 1,000 fans, a man dressed in a Donald Duck costume wearing a No 7 shirt, and a topless model, greeted his arrival.
'Ronaldo Duck' caused few problems during Portugal's brief stay in Brazil – they were out at the group stage – but former Miss BumBum Andressa Urach, had to be escorted out one public training session and told to stay away from the Real Madrid star.
Those public sessions in front of 8,000 screaming supporters at Third Division Ponte Preta's Moises Lucarelli stadium were soap operas in themselves with Ronaldo's fitness the main plot line.
He would start the session with a thin bandage on his left knee and end it with a huge ice pack in the same place, and the unlucky Portuguese player giving the day's press conference would then be asked about nothing but the star man's injury troubles.
This time things should be far calmer. Portugal are based at the national rugby centre in Linas Marcoussis and play their group games against Iceland, Austria and Hungary in St Etienne, Paris and Lyon respectively. The terror threat that hangs over the tournament ought to make for far less public access to the Ronaldo roadshow.
And there ought to be less fuss made over his fitness too with Zindedine Zidane confirming after the Champions League success in Milan that he had been carrying no injuries in the final.
That 120-minute display in the San Siro might not have been his finest, but it was hugely impressive physically. Any team that wants to beat Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid needs to work extremely hard and the tracking back from both Ronaldo and Gareth Bale left them barely able to run up to take their penalties in the shootout.
'I'm dead on my feet, my legs have gone,' Ronaldo told team-mates after one last lung-busting run back to track Juanfran before the final whistle.
He then told Zidane's No 2 David Bettoni that he would be fine to step up for the fifth penalty as the list of takers was put together. He also assured everyone that it would be the kick that won the game and Madrid's 11th Champions League.
Ronaldo is aware of the huge boost that win gives him. 'You go into the tournament happier, more positive, and with far more confidence after winning the Champions League,' he told La Sexta in Spain in a recent television interview.
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