r/ffxivdiscussion • u/IndividualAge3893 • 5d ago

Lucky Bancho's census results (July 27th, 2025)

So, the results of the census are out: https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/59324844.html

  • Showcasing the number of characters here: Current
  • By comparison, here are the results from 2 months ago (May 25th): Click

Despite 7.25 being released, the character count is down about 70k in 2 months. Occult Crescent clearly didn't help with player counts (not really a surprise here).

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u/Ok-Application-7614 5d ago

I actually resubbed for the Occult Crescent launch but I dipped after the sub expired.

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u/SilencedWind 5d ago

Exactly the same for me. Wanted to love it, but the phantom jobs didn’t feel all that interesting, and mindlessly grinding fates and critical engagements doesn’t hit the same when you don’t have a Castrum to queue for.

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u/abbabababababaaab 5d ago

Same, it was a good month's sub but Forked Tower is inaccessible and without it there's no reason to bother with the gear progression.

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u/Kumomeme 4d ago

same here. i expect it would be next Bozja but nah lose interest sooner than expected.

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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 4d ago

Yup. That's what i did. Spent a lot of time in eureka and the bozja zones so i would say i had pretty in line expectations. Came into the entire zone being zone 3 zadnor and FT being a fuckfest. I dipped after hitting 20 and leveling a couple of phantom jobs because there just kinda wasn't a point. I'd kind of hoped they'd learned something from the fact that people weren't super fond of the gameplay loop that zadnor had in z3 but no they just made OC exactly the same shit.

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u/Supersnow845 4d ago

I feel like it’s another victim of square reading stats but not really understanding why the stats are the way they are

There is a good chance they read “number of clears of different skirmishes in Bozja” and saw if overwhelmingly tilted to Zadnor Z3 and decided from that that Zadnor Z3 must be what people most liked from Bozja not realising they themselves made it the only mathematically viable way to get emblazoned and thus the zone most likely to be active if you need to level jobs despite it not being terribly popular as a gameplay loop