2026 FanFests

[Auro_Seldaris]

Please stop with "hypothetical Patch 7.6" cope.

That is not going to happen. It didn't happen with the content drought in EW, I saw the same posts two years ago about "maybe there's a 6.6 patch in the works!" It didn't happen then, it's 99.9% likely that's not going to happen now. There would literally have to be some sort of fundamental shift in philosophy from CSIII for that to occur, and that's highly unlikely.

Prepare yourself for a full year with no content.

[CapaxInfiniti]

He kind of admitted some fault when he responded to the MSQ's reception by saying that they failed to properly convey why Wuk Lamat is an amazing character.

Honestly, a game director who uses the words "amazing character" when describing WL is too out of touch with reality to have any business being a game director.

[DynnDiablos]

You have now realized that we're only half way through Dawntrail.

Which is crazy to me because it has felt like DT has gone on for an eternity.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Please stop with "hypothetical Patch 7.6" cope.

That is not going to happen. It didn't happen with the content drought in EW, I saw the same posts two years ago about "maybe there's a 6.6 patch in the works!" It didn't happen then, it's 99.9% likely that's not going to happen now. There would literally have to be some sort of fundamental shift in philosophy from CSIII for that to occur, and that's highly unlikely.

Prepare yourself for a full year with no content.

Wonder if they are going to release 7.55 later than usual to try and space things out, or if “whirlwind pace” means they’re going to try and rush 8.0 to January ‘27 as some are speculating… if so, let’s hope they get their QA under control!

[Naraku_Diabolos]

It doesn’t make sense. Patch 7.4 SHOULD be releasing early December with 7.5 releasing in April if we go by the 4 month schedule. The Fan Fest should have started in early December or early January. 8.0 would then probably release in late June or early July.

Yoshida-san has to give us more clarification if the 7.4 and 7.5 patches are delayed. I think if so, they might make the MSQ a tad longer and add more things for us to do. At least this gives me time getting my other jobs to Lv100 and get their high-end gear.

[Shinku_Tachi]

If 8.0 doesn't release till 2027 we are in for a long 2026 in game

I guess the silver lining is that new players will have more than enough time to play through all the story from ARR to Dawntrail, so they can start 8.0 day one with us.

[brinn12]

Best-case scenario is 2 years and 6 months now, potentially stretched to 3 years. In the next expansion we'll be getting 21-week patches, with poorly implemented difficulty sliders and less content overall.

It's past time someone from Square Enix's finance department stepped in to save this game.

[Carin-Eri]

It doesn’t make sense. Patch 7.4 SHOULD be releasing early December with 7.5 releasing in April if we go by the 4 month schedule. The Fan Fest should have started in early December or early January. 8.0 would then probably release in late June or early July.

Yoshida-san has to give us more clarification if the 7.4 and 7.5 patches are delayed. I think if so, they might make the MSQ a tad longer and add more things for us to do. At least this gives me time getting my other jobs to Lv100 and get their high-end gear.

That's one of the issues though - Yoshida-san seems quite adverse to actually telling us anything and clearly prefers PR-speak and ambiguous statements/announcements that don't really tell us anything.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Please stop with "hypothetical Patch 7.6" cope.

That is not going to happen. It didn't happen with the content drought in EW, I saw the same posts two years ago about "maybe there's a 6.6 patch in the works!" It didn't happen then, it's 99.9% likely that's not going to happen now. There would literally have to be some sort of fundamental shift in philosophy from CSIII for that to occur, and that's highly unlikely.

Prepare yourself for a full year with no content.

We're still only just over half way through 2025, we're looking at roughly a year and a half to 2 years without content; other than a couple of patches with a few hours of story, a new dungeon or two, and a couple of new trials, the final alliance raid and ACC set.

[theunhappypotato]

Atleast we have more time to play other games then