Realistic Fanfest Predictions

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I was under the impression that people only went to fanfest for the live concert and the disgusting greasy hairy orgy afterwards. And even then, the cost is exorbitant when you add up travel fees and hotel costs. Do people really go just for the advertisements that they could've watched at home in a livestream for free? No way.

You’re describing BlizzCon.

[Avoidy]

You’re describing BlizzCon.

You are probably right. Our fanfest's after hours event would be waxed and not hairy, in the spirit of Final Fantasy's hairless men.

[Wyssahtyn]

1.5 hr keynote slides showing off new features of the expansion

thirty minutes at best for game features then the rest of the time is going to be advertisements for merch

[Xeronia]

Same as usual announcements of expansion name, general idea of the expansion, teasing to new jobs, and some screenshots of new stuff. I wouldn't discount a sneak peak at graphics rework or Female Hrothgar.

[Remish]

Realistically, they won't cover much about the expansion at all. They usually do not give us much in the first fanfest. They'll probably show a few teasers like the graphic updates. Female Hrothgar maybe. If we're lucky, MAYBE a job teaser, hint, clue, reveal, ect. They are fairly inconsistent on that. For the most part I'm expecting the 6.5-part 1 Live Letter and very very minimal 7.0 news.

[remiff]

Realistically, they won't cover much about the expansion at all. They usually do not give us much in the first fanfest. They'll probably show a few teasers like the graphic updates. Female Hrothgar maybe. If we're lucky, MAYBE a job teaser, hint, clue, reveal, ect. They are fairly inconsistent on that. For the most part I'm expecting the 6.5-part 1 Live Letter and very very minimal 7.0 news.

Yes they don't really go into details about the first Fanfestival, it will remain vague with some clues and they will certainly talk mainly about the future of Final fantasy 14 from a TECH shadow/light/DX12 point of view, the graphic update (textures, preview trailer, etc,...),
maybe an extended interdatacenter travel between EU-NA, JP-Oceania.

But we will have relatively minimal information on 7.0, the major information will certainly not be before the EU and JP fanfests.

The first fanfest usually only gives enough clue to speculate, and yoshi-p's famous t-shirt for tease the EU fanfest job.

[TheMightyMollusk]

A marketing event will be mostly marketing. What a shocker.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

A marketing event will be mostly marketing. What a shocker.

Why would you do such a thing?! D:
Not in my Final Fantasy!

[SieyaM]

A marketing event will be mostly marketing. What a shocker.

I thought they had events and things at these fanfests, is it really just watching advertisements for days?