Whatever happened to Ishgard?

[Vanguard319]

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?

[Ilean]

Check official roadmap.

[Vanguard319]

Well, I checked the official roadmap, it mentions dragon battles in defense of ishgard, but that really doesn't mean we'll be allowed entry, after all, we had to got to Owl's nest to gain entry to the darkhold. I was kind of hoping to get a little bit more info about it.

edit: I can't remember the exact link, I only remember that it was during the summer, between mid May and late June

[Felis]

I seem to recall the devs saying that we would be able to enter Ishgard by the end of the summer;

Link?

The Ishgard opening festival is after the map redesign

[Hanemakikaze]

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

[Aenarion]

a great swarm of hungry lalafell descended upon Ishgard and devour it overnight.

[Anonymoose]

Maybe they're just still constructing that tech demo reference I was so psyched for (see sig. link) forever ago...
[can hear dev team laughing at him from here]

[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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[Delsus]

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:







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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That gamerescape interview quote doesnt say Ishgard is entirely a large scale PvE area, it could be that they want that in a part of it whereas the rest of Ishgard is a city, unless the 7th umbral era is going to destroy it (but seeing as it says Ishgard will only play a small part then its doubtful.

To be fair it never mentioned PvE just that more than 40 characters need to be displayed for something the have planned there.

Something real big could be Ishgard defence or something (I think I saw something about that) which could be added after Ishgard is open.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

That gamerescape interview quote doesnt say Ishgard is entirely a large scale PvE area, it could be that they want that in a part of it whereas the rest of Ishgard is a city, unless the 7th umbral era is going to destroy it (but seeing as it says Ishgard will only play a small part then its doubtful.

To be fair it never mentioned PvE just that more than 40 characters need to be displayed for something the have planned there.

Something real big could be Ishgard defence or something (I think I saw something about that) which could be added after Ishgard is open.

Yes, it doesn't 100%, explicitly say "Ishgard = PvE".

Either way the display limitations are limiting Ishgard release. The PvE they want us to experience is still linked to Ishgard in some way.