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[FFXIV] Las Vegas Fan Festival 2023

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 year, 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 the Fanfest website:

All events listed will either be presented in English or have official English translation provided on stream!

Where can I watch?

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  • Summary of everything announced for the opening keynote:

    New Expansion

    As usual, Fan Festival brings the announcement of a new expansion. This year brings us the fifth expansion, Dawntrail, with a release to be expected summer 2024. See the trailer here.

    Content coming in Final Fantasy XIV 7.x includes:

    • Tural, The New World continent.
    • New hub city, Tuliyollal.
    • New locations, Urqopacha and Yak T’el.
    • Pelupelu Allied Tribe from Final Fantasy X.
    • Two new DPS Jobs—Unknown, but they are confirmed to be ranged magic and melee.
    • New core battle content.
    • An update to Duty Support.
    • New Raids, including an 8-man Raid and an Ultimate Raid.
    • Blue Mage updates.
    • New Normal and Hard Dungeons.
    • New Variant Dungeons.
    • New gear.
    • New recipes.
    • Eyeglasses added as a new gear type. Can be equipped alongside headgear.
    • Dye limit raised to two per gear piece.
    • Furnishing limit increase.
    • More Hildibrand Adventures.
    • Gold Saucer updates.
    • Deep Dungeon updates.
    • PVP updates, including Crystalline Conflict and Frontline.
    • Valigarmanda boss battle. From Final Fantasy VI.

    Major Graphic Updates

    Dawntrail will see one of FFXIVs biggest graphical updates in many years, with the last being in Heavensward when DX11, improved lighting and water effects were introduced. Following on from that Dawntrail will bring even greater lighting improvements, higher quality textures, improved character modals, locations and dungeons.

    However this does mean an increase in the system requirements to be able to run the game.

    XBox Series X|S Support

    This is a major announcement that has been a longtime in the making. A public beta beginning during patch 6.5x was announced for modern XBox consoles with a release date set for Spring 2024.

    The XBox Series X version will feature all the nice improvements that we get to enjoy on PlayStation 5, including cross play with PlayStation and PC players!