2026 FanFests

[Auro_Seldaris]

They are already having earnings stress so bad that they had to cut XIV’s budget by 50%

Can you provide a source for this? I'm curious to have that info as reference.

[MicahZerrshia]

Can you provide a source for this? I'm curious to have that info as reference.

Last I heard the source was a streamer, another said reddit. Either way it has yet to be confirmed but ppl are running with it.

[Snails]

If the next expansion doesn't come out until 2027 I'm definitely dropping my sub, house be damned.

[Rayne6665]

Seems the dates/locations for the 2026 fanfests have been announced:

"Our 2026 Fan Fests will kick off major future plans which we'll be rolling out at a whirlwind pace"

The dates tend to suggest that 8.0 will launch in 2027....
How does everyone feel about that?

Its coming to Anahiem?! Haha I live close to there so I might attend my first fan fest lmfao 8.0 in 2027? I don't mind at all.

[Kunzite_Lockhart]

7.4 - December 2025
7.5 - May 2026
8.0 - May 2027

How cooked could this game even be?

[Dastan]

You're just going to have to use this as an opportunity to do other things if you've completed everything you've wanted to complete in this game. Content droughts are normal and we all hate them. You will be perfectly fine though and so will the game. I've taken several breaks on this game and have come back multiple times in my 6 years of playing consistently since I started up again. You will burn yourself out if all you want to play is FFXIV. Especially if you have finished all desirable content. I would definitely recommend taking an extended break after 7.55 is done with and come back a few weeks before the expansion drops to re-familiarize yourself with the game before 8.0 drops. Early raiders do this all the time. Us casuals can learn to do it too.

[MicahZerrshia]

You're just going to have to use this as an opportunity to do other things if you've completed everything you've wanted to complete in this game. Content droughts are normal and we all hate them. You will be perfectly fine though and so will the game.

*looks at sub numbers continually dropping*
*looks at SE having "funding issues"*

um, I hate to break this to you buuuuuut............

[Striker44]

*looks at sub numbers continually dropping*
*looks at SE having "funding issues"*

um, I hate to break this to you buuuuuut............

Looks at Steam chart - active players up 25% in the last month. Looks at SE financial report showing MMO department (which is almost entirely FFXIV) remains among their most profitable. Realizes that even with the decline of subs overall in DT, the game is still well above it's population in the ARR-->SB days when it was viewed as healthy, and that was *without* the added income from the Cash Shop.

Dwell in reality rather than the eye-rolling doomposting that pervades this forum.

[Wyssahtyn]

anaheim, huh. pretty close by, but then again na fanfests have historically been bad or mid at best. like they seemed like they were finally learning to organise better back during stormblood, but the one during ew in vegas was pretty awful from the accounts i saw. kicking people out of ada seating and throwing out people's water bottles is still wild to me.

[Kahnha]

seems pretty standard and I doubt there will be radio silence after 7.5 but time will tell. 14 is still my main MMO my friends play it and I have a house in a prem spot so :3