What a week! Yoshi-P has announced the next Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival - ending speculation about when and where it may happen. But as usual, the announcement has spawned more speculation about patch pacing etc, and we discuss it all. Yoshi-P also released an announcement about mods and plugins in FFXIV following the drama surrounding the shutdown of Mare Synchronos. We also discuss the new optional items, the ceremony of eternal bonding website refresh, and in MogMail we discuss the identity of the ascian at the end of the 7.3 MSQ (and derailing as usual). Welcome.

Yoshi-P's announcement: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/1e4a8b0e8b84ea8dac61ae07af02e0c425de74aa

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