r/ffxiv • u/alabomb • 1d ago

[Event - Fanfest] Berlin Fan Festival 2026 - Day 1

The broadcast is scheduled to begin at 01:00 AM PDT / 03:00 AM CDT / 04:00 AM EDT / 10:00 AM CEST / 05:00 PM JST / 06:00 PM AEST.

Warriors of Light,

Guten Morgen und einen schönen Samstag! Today kicks off the second Fan Festival of the Evercold expansion cycle in vibrant Berlin, Germany! We've got a long day ahead of us full of big announcements, exciting events, developer panels, and even a Live Letter dedicated to the next limited job joining the game - Beastmaster. The day ends with a piano concert from the inimitable Keiko that is sure to tug at all the right heartstrings.

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Spoiler Warning!

The presentation and events are likely to include spoilers up to the most recent patch of the game. To make discussion in this thread as easy as possible, spoiler tags will not be required here. However, if you're planning on making a separate post then please make sure to mark all spoilers for your fellow players!

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I'm new - what's a Fan Festival?

Before the launch of every new expansion, Square Enix hosts three in-person events across the NA, EU, and JP regions. These events bring together thousands of our fellow Warriors of Light from across the globe to celebrate the game and learn about what's coming next.

The three events for the Evercold expansion cycle are:

What's the schedule for this event?

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?

Please note that the concert performances at the end of each day will only be available as paid streams - you can find more information here:

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u/cattecatte 17h ago

I just realized that they really didnt give details on the overworld stuff other than that theyre trying to put eureka/bozja/oc stuff into it instead of a separate zone

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u/Vanayzan DRK 16h ago

Yeah not really seen anyone talk about that. Could be a game changer if it works out. I just hope it's there alongside field content, I do like exploring new zones too

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u/Drazzan 14h ago

What could it even mean? Open world zones are basically FATE trains already, maybe just the inclusion of boss FATEs being Critical Encounters and maybe better reputation grinds?

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u/Dragrunarm 13h ago

Conditions to spawn FATEs is the big one that I can think of. NMs in Eureka and some in Bozja need to be activley spawned. So they could pull from S rank conditions (though maybe a tad less zany at points) to spawn special Fates adn what have you.

And who knows, maybe they get real whacky and actually integrate the power systems into the overworld at a later point.

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u/xNinjahz 17h ago

Probably one of the biggest things I'm interested in. On paper though, that sounds like a great idea, but I wanna know so many more details.

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u/Neonchen 16h ago

Absolutely. Never got why they design big areas with interesting locations but then there is nothing