'This town certainly has changed, and not at all for the better'

[Alien_Gamer]

But if it was Ilsabard why wouldn't Yoshida talk about it?

I think this is simply just a marketing decision. They've still got a few live letters to do, 2 fan fests and who knows how many interviews planned to tease us with pieces of information here and there. They want to build things up to the final full reveal at the last fan fest. I may be misremembering but I don't think the reveal about hitting Doma and Gyr Abania hit until the second fanfest before StB.

[Anonymoose]

I may be misremembering but I don't think the reveal about hitting Doma and Gyr Abania hit until the second fanfest before StB.

This is correct. We knew we were going to Ala Mhigo but not the Far East until the extended trailer. We never seem to go in just one direction. However, that's also the source of what I said. If we're taking on the Garlean Empire, we're going to Ilsabard. Period. So when Yoshida says he can't talk about the three new areas we've seen (two by name), and he says...

Warriors of Light will become the Warriors of Darkness, but the timing is not right yet to disclose where we are going. So it was intentional. Still have 4.5 coming up and there is a lot to experience in that patch. So they didn’t want to expose that until 4.5 is revealed.

that's a hint that there's another factor in play. What separates this place from the Ilsabard we know? Pre-and-post a specific event? Dimensional? Chronological?