FanFest

[SweetPete]

I am hoping that at NA fanfest they kinda stray away from the usual as we will be celebrating the 10 years of ARR plus this is the first physical fanfest since the v****. I mean I am probably being naive but I am keeping my fingers crossed for something more.

-Maybe acting revealing one/only one of the new jobs.
-A bit more of the teaser trailer than normal.
-The new graphics will be nice to see too.

Wishful thinking. I am sure nothing will really change but I am just hoping I guess.

Less than 1 week! Let's goooooooooooo. So excited!

[Jeeqbit]

They may give us information about the graphics, or even a trailer of that itself, and trailers of new jobs, but don't expect a lot of in-game footage.

New areas are mostly not done at this stage of development. Some areas will remain as concept art still, or lack things like music that Soken is still working on, and as we get through the Fan Fests, they will have a lot more to show in the third Fan Fest.

[CStrife912]

The only thing I’ve seen of note is if we compare the keynote of Endwalker it was around an hour this one on Friday is an hour and a half. Granted inside that time schedule they talk about merch too but I really hope they do a lot of screen comparisons for the visual update because this seems to be 7.0s biggest gimmick and something the team seems proud of. I mean they should us samples 1 month old back in feb 2022… it’s been 17 months since then, they’ve got to have something of note to show.

[Rongway]

I am hoping that at NA fanfest they kinda stray away from the usual as we will be celebrating the 10 years of ARR plus this is the first physical fanfest since the v****. I mean I am probably being naive but I am keeping my fingers crossed for something more.

If I'm honest, I'm actually anticipating that they might even reveal less than they have at previous NA FanFests. The graphics update is kind of a big thing and I expect they'll focus on showing us old stuff with the new graphics, rather than showing us more of the new stuff.

[TheMightyMollusk]

since the v****.

Does "virus" really need to be censored?

Anyway, I'm hoping for 7.0 info, but I'm expecting 6.5 and the Rising to take up most of it. Maybe teasers for the next job, likely in the usual form of Yoshi wearing a shirt that hints at it. Oh, and probably some high-end merch that I'm too poor to care about.

[Syln]

Does "virus" really need to be censored?

Anyway, I'm hoping for 7.0 info, but I'm expecting 6.5 and the Rising to take up most of it. Maybe teasers for the next job, likely in the usual form of Yoshi wearing a shirt that hints at it. Oh, and probably some high-end merch that I'm too poor to care about.

You got it all wrong, it wasn't "virus" but "Voldemort" obviously.

[Jeeqbit]

Anyway, I'm hoping for 7.0 info, but I'm expecting 6.5 and the Rising to take up most of it. Maybe teasers for the next job, likely in the usual form of Yoshi wearing a shirt that hints at it. Oh, and probably some high-end merch that I'm too poor to care about.

I think the keynote is supposed to be about 7.0 and the next day is the live letter that is about 6.5. I doubt they would want to crossover the subjects in each. Both are 1 hour and a half, although half of that will be translations and most of the rest will be obvious stuff such as...

• New jobs!
• *That begin at 80.
• 8 new challenging dungeons!
• New minions!
• New mounts!
• New level cap of 100!

You know, the stuff that, we, really don't need to know because we all know it already.

[undull1]

teaser trailer
one if the new jobs
very broad story hints
graphics update

I think that's a reasonable expectation.

[Rongway]

one if the new jobs

I think that's a reasonable expectation.

They've never outright revealed a new (non-limited) job at an NA FanFest, only teased one via a T-shirt.

Also I'm not going to just assume there'll be multiple new jobs. This far in there might only be one.

[Jeeqbit]

Also I'm not going to just assume there'll be multiple new jobs. This far in there might only be one.

But we also have no reason to believe there won't be multiple because there always has been, until they say otherwise like they did when reducing dungeon development.

I think their strategy for managing and balancing all of the different jobs is to make half of them identical but with different animations, so if they make a change to one they simply make it to the other as well.

Scholar <-> Sage
Monk <-> Samurai
Dragoon <-> Reaper (even more in 7.0 is the general prediction)
PLD <-> GNB
WAR <-> DRK