Today is the day for a number of Final Fantasy fans, no doubt many of which are part of this community. So here is a thread for those watching and wanting to discuss the event and what is shown here.

What’s Fan Festival?

For those not familiar or players of FFXIV, before the launch of every new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Square Enix hosts three in-person events across the NA, EU, and JP regions. These events bring together players (Warriors of Light) from across the globe to celebrate the game and learn about what’s coming next. Often hosting keynotes, cosplay events and live gigs by The Primals - a band led by Masayoshi Soken and includes translator Michael-Christopher Koji Fox.

The three events are hosted in three key places, with different countries being the host for each EU event. This time around, these are the locations where they’re happening:

  • NA: July 28-29, 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center
  • EU: Oct 21-22, 2023 at the ExCeL London Convention Center
  • JP: Jan 7-8, 2024 at the Tokyo Dome

Fan Festival Schedules

You can find the schedule for each day on this page: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/0e4765e138f0823a63bec280840bab52066be87f

Unlike EU and NE events, the JP events will be presented in Japanese only! However the opening keynote will be translated to English.

Where can I watch?

  • HaruOPMEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    Here’s a list of all the main announcements from the keynote:

    • Full Dawntrail cinematic: Discussion
    • Female Hrothgar announced and shown off: Discussion
    • New job - Pictomancer: Discussion
    • New town/local - the seemingly futuristic Solution Nine: Discussion
    • A number of beautiful new areas: Discussion
    • A look at several new dungeons: Discussion
    • New lifestyle content - Cosmic Exploration
    • New 24-man raid artwork - Shadow Lord.
    • New 8-man raid - The Arcadion.
    • New Ultimate raid - Futures Rewritten (Eden).
    • New limited job - Beastmaster.
    • Graphical update comparisons.
    • Dawntrail poster reveal.
    • Patch 6.55 scheduled for January 16th: Discussion
    • Xbox Open Beta to begin in February.
    • FFXIV x FFXVI crossover planned for early April.

    Links to discussions are directed to c/[email protected] where they have dedicated threads for each of those announcements.

    I’ll update with further resources later