Whatever happened to Ishgard?

[Tezz_Xivectro]

This has been bugging me for quite awhile now. I seem to recall the devs saying that we would be able to enter Ishgard by the end of the summer; it is going into winter now, and as far as I know, the gate is still shut. any idea if and when this might happen?

Not too long ago, they mentioned they were saving Ishgard for some large scale PvE content. The problem that arose was that in order to have "large scale PvE" it would require displaying many character models at once. Currently the game engine limits the display amount to 40 characters on-screen at max.

They basically want us to get the full feel of the PvE content without being held back from these limitations that will just make for an irritating experience.


Most recent/relevant talk about Ishgard:

Gamer Escape: It feels like Dragoon could have ties to Ishgard. Will Ishgard be coming soon? Or will that be arriving after 2.0?

Yoshida: Currently, the story that we are preparing for patches 1.20, 1.21, and 1.22 is continuing this story that’s about the coming of the Seventh Umbral Era and the threat that looms on the horizon that nobody knows about that is coming and will come. Ishgard, while playing a small part, they won’t be playing a large part and the reason we decided to do this is that we have something really big planned for 2.0 that features Ishgard and it features some type of content that we want to have a lot of players be involved in at the same time. But with the current graphic engine you can’t display more than 40 characters at a time so releasing it at this time with our current engine wouldn’t make it as exciting as we intended it to be. So we’re going to wait till we have that new graphic and server foundation before releasing that content because we feel it will have more of an impact if we release it at 2.0.

Uh, pretty sure yoshi said dragoon quest is in ishgard...

As for Ishgard being part of the Dragoon back story… that will probably be done through quests. There will be some ties to Ishgard like talks about “the legendary Dragoon of Ishgard” and following in his footsteps. So the quests will be touching upon Ishgard, but those big “go to Ishgard and do stuff” type of content is going to be for 2.0. But it’s going to be one of the main things we’re going to want to push for 2.0 because we feel it’s going to be something that will hit the players and they’re really going to enjoy it.

Sources:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mary-Released!
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ll=1#post96330
http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Content_EN.pdf
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2011/10...-is-out-there/


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