Ishgard coming after the battle changes

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Originally Posted by Evangela

then why not?

timeline can give people hope

didn't they have producer letters to keep people continue playing with hope?

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really? how about you go back through this thread and read why not.

edit: you where asking for specific dates, they already give timelines which is not specific dates. they say things like this summer, winter, fall, etc.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

yeah, but sadly... a lot of people don't want to listen to the truth

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Follow your own advice.

The truth is: Things take time. Period.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

Hello Bayohne, hello Rukkirii.

What I think everyone would like to know is if there are any other areas and/or regions currently developed, but not yet implemented? Ishgard is the most obvious one as we can see it in the Coerthas already, and you have mentioned that areas designed for raid content has been planned, but there are currently many regions in the world map that could be opened in the future, such as O'ghomoro, Dravania(?) as well as other regions surrounding the city-states. Are these simply waiting for content to be added to them, or should we expect to see them in the coming months at all?

If you can inform us about this in some form, it would be appreciated.

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Like this one you mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Ww9...ailpage#t=157s

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Originally Posted by Sigmakan

Thanks for your continued support Bayohne. I think when the new Dev team first got started it was probably impractical to create a timeline of expected content/fix releases. However, now the new Dev team has had almost 5 months, shouldn't they have a better idea about the capabilities of their teams and when to expect new content and fixes? Obviously its impractical to pinpoint which days/weeks to expect content, but it should be possible to say what month or quarter. I think many of us would be put at ease if a schedule (similar to the one released for FFXI) was created for FF14. Yoshi-P created a letter just to clarify that the devs are working on other things besides events, but for most players its really hard to see that when all we are given are ambiguous statements.

I really think a rough timeline on when to expect new battle system, armor system, end game dungeon, Ishgard, improved crafting system, etc. would help tremendously.

Just my two cents!

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When you implement content that needs to be tested extensively in-house, not only you don't know *for sure* when that content will be finished until you're quite near to finishing it (since the synergie between different teams are complex, and often if something goes wrong within a team, it delays the work of other teams as well, in a cascade reaction), but you also have to take in account the very concrete possibility that the finished content will go to the QA team for internal testing, some critical bug, problem or incompatibility is found, and the whole piece of content/system needs to go back to development in order to be fixed. Then it needs to go back to QA in order to be tested again (and they cannot *just* test the fix, but they need to test much more extensively to make sure that the fix itself didn't cause other bugs or incompatibilities) and so forth.

The problem with announcing timeframes early in this conditions is that most gamers do NOT know or aknowledge the above problems, and take a missed timeframe as a broken promise, resorting to venting their frustration by flaming the developer or even quitting.
That's why not announcing timeframe until such timeframes are set in stone is a golden rule, and you won't see SE breaking it. Yoshida himself said, in one of his first interviews, that he's simply not going to make promises until he is sure that he can keep them.

Hello Everyone,

As two of our Community Reps have already provided answers to the questions and due to the off topic posts, we are going to go ahead and close this thread.

Thank you for your understanding.

-Senior Game Master Jhanaka