Opening blocked off llocations after November 1st

[Alhanelem]

There are still a couple of blocked off locations spread all over Eorzea, like the ones near Lasthold and Turning Leaf, and some others in Coerthas. Any plans to open them after the final save date?

It would just be cool to explore all these unused places before the servers go down and they're lost forever in their current form, at least until they're revamped in ARR, if they are even going to be implemented there.

Those locations are blocked off because there is nothing behind them....

Would be fun to explore Ishgard in its pre-alpha state! Even if it is just an empty building, in the end.

I've asked about this before. People have glitched past the gate. The bridge to ishgard abruptly ends (e.g. it was never meant to walk out there and it would have been a zone-in). The actual city does not actually exist at all yet. Yoshida's team will be building it from scratch, they said they'd have to delay the game a really long time if they were to implement it- it's most likely not coming til an expansion (So much for Ishgard being this game's Jeuno, right?)

IIRC some of the closed areas do have stuff in them, at least that was like a year ago when someone accessed them with dubious methods, back before Ughamaro and AV were released. They might have removed them since then though so I dunno, still would be cool to explore if they're still there.

The only thing I know of that's in the data files that we still don't have is a dungeon that has something to do with Titan (or at least, his name is in the name of the place). Maybe someone can find the link, I just remembe reading about someone exploring the DATs or something.

[Elexia]

Those locations are blocked off because there is nothing behind them....

There is actually depending on what you mean. We don't know which scripts and etc they planned but most of the blocked locations has stuff behind them, just like Castrum had the basic stuff behind it before release, just not all of the bells and whistles. The cave under Blue Fog looks like a more anthill style Cutter's Cry for example.

[Alhanelem]

just like Castrum had the basic stuff behind it before release, just not all of the bells and whistles.

Castrum Novum did not existt originally. It was partially added in an update and then fully added in another update. Before those two updates, that area was just empty terrain in mor dhona.

[Yrusama]

The areas in mistbeard cove and copperbell mines are blocked off, but have content. They were used in a Lambs of Dalamud event. I'd like to see them opened as well, but they'd have to remove the barriers there, which may be more effort than it's worth. Maybe if they let us teleport in like before.

[Angelas]

There is an island in Coerthas that has no way to reach it but you can clearly see it has terrain and an area big enough for mobs and exploration