{"id":46645,"date":"2026-04-23T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46645"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:04:06","slug":"start-time-and-where-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46645","title":{"rendered":"Start time and where to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"w-heading-options\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>\n    <span>Link copied to clipboard<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"article-header-data\">\n<div class=\"w-article-header-author-img\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header-author-img\">\n<p>                                            <img src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fauthors%2F623373d4b6ac7-me%20profile.jpg?fit=crop&amp;w=90&amp;h=90\" alt=\"4\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>\n                                                                        <time datetime=\"2026-04-22T18:19:29Z\"><span class=\"is-mobile-hidden\">Published<\/span> Apr 22, 2026, 2:19\u202fPM EDT<\/time>\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Will we see Final Fantasy 8.0, or just a lot more Beastmaster?<\/p>\n<p>                                                        <noscript> add iframe code inside nonscript tag for crwaler<br \/>\n                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FINAL FANTASY XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim - Day 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_aCGzxWczCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n                <\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"heading_image responsive-img img-size-heading-image-full-width   clickable-feature-image-yt-embed icon i-youtube \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Square Enix&quot;\" data-is-feature-img=\"true\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Hildebrand in FFXIV Dawntrail dancing on a stage and performing a dab\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ffxiv-fan-fest-keynote-2026.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"item-img-caption\">Image: Square Enix<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FINAL FANTASY XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim - Day 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_aCGzxWczCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"content-block-regular\">\n<p>The 2026 <em>Final Fantasy XIV<\/em> Fan Fest kicks off soon, as Square Enix starts the process of shifting away from <em>Dawntrail<\/em> toward whatever comes next. The keynote starts at 10 a.m. PDT on Friday, April 24, and Square Enix says it&#8217;ll last a little more than two hours. You can watch it on the <em>FFXIV<\/em> YouTube channel (separate streams for Friday and Saturday) and the game&#8217;s official Twitch channel.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what that start time looks like elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        1 p.m. Friday, April 24, EDT\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        2 p.m. Friday, April 24, BRT\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        6 p.m. Friday, April 24, BST\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        7 p.m. Friday, April 24, CEST\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        2 a.m. Saturday, April 25, JST\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        3 a.m. Saturday, April 25, AEST\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>FFXIV <\/em>producer Naoki Yoshida will present the keynote, and this is usually the part of Fan Fest where Yoshida and his team make the biggest announcements about what&#8217;s next for the game. In 2023&#8217;s first Fan Fest, for example, Square Enix revealed the <em>Dawntrail<\/em> expansion. <em>Dawntrail<\/em>&#8216;s 7.5 update \u2014 the expansion&#8217;s last major patch \u2014 goes live a few days after Fan Fest ends, so there&#8217;s quite a lot of speculation floating around about Yoshida revealing <em>FFXIV <\/em>8.0 during this keynote.<\/p>\n<p>Square Enix hasn&#8217;t made any announcements or teased 8.0 news, so whether it happens is up in the air. But you can probably expect more details about the game&#8217;s Beastmaster job, and news about what&#8217;s ahead in the rest of the 7.5 patch series. Most of what Square Enix announced for the patch, including a much-needed dye revamp and changes to outfit storage, is planned for after 7.5&#8217;s initial launch, and Yoshida only gave brief overviews during the team&#8217;s previous Live Letter stream.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote is only Fan Fest&#8217;s first part. Square Enix is following it with several events in the 24 hours after that, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        An interview panel with Yoshida and <em>FFXIV<\/em> battle designer Hikaru Tamaki\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        A cosplay showcase\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        An hour-long concert with <em>FFXIV<\/em> pianist Keiko\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        This season&#8217;s PvP championship\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        A talk by <em>FFXIV<\/em> localization lead Michael-Christopher Koji Fox\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full schedule is on the Fan Fest Lodestone page. And as always, the convention will end with a performance from The Primals, <em>FFXIV<\/em>&#8216;s rock band. (Koji Fox and sound director Masayoshi Soken are members.) All these events will be streamed on the <em>FFXIV<\/em> YouTube and Twitch channels.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/ffxiv-2026-fan-fest-keynote-when-date-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link copied to clipboard Published Apr 22, 2026, 2:19\u202fPM EDT Will we see Final Fantasy 8.0, or just a lot more Beastmaster? add iframe code&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1588,654,157],"class_list":["post-46645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-start","tag-time","tag-watch","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}