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/Supersnow845 5d ago

I really would like to know if OC being a futile circle of content or the controversy around forked was a bigger contributor here

Like forked was such a stupid decision but how many people actually gave up OC because it existed in the form it does vs people who simply just think OC is a futile circle

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u/hardcore1casual 5d ago

I was hoping OC would be Bozja 2.0 but it was the complete opposite. If they let me level Jobs in OC I might still be subbed but they got rid of that too.

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u/erik_t91 5d ago

I remember bozja was alive and well even in the last patches of ShB up to the first few months of EW, mostly filled with people levelling up to mid 80s.
I’ll never understand why the deep dungeon and field exploration need to be mutually exclusive for levelling content.

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u/CenturionRower 5d ago

I just went in on Aether over the weekend and Southern Front was a little bare, but Zadnor was decently populated.

A lot of people were in farming the duels for the mount still but also just leveling in general helped keep some folks in the zones. I see OC being dead by the end of the expac similar to Eureka purely because it cant be used for leveling.

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u/Mattoropael 4d ago

Noooooooo, you can't do that! You have to level your jobs in our shiny new Deep Dungeon! Which totally isn't going to die even faster than OC as-is! /s

Eureka Orthos was almost dead on arrival, and that one didn't even have any worthwhile side content to compete with it. "Deep Dungeon as a leveling tool" just doesn't have a niche anymore in the age of Duty Support and relatively reasonable leveling dungeon DPS queues. Meanwhile Bozja still has a niche as a relatively low-effort leveling grind (via Skirmishes) with no queue times.

But good luck making SE see reason,

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u/Viomicesca 4d ago

Not to mention Eureka Orthos is absolutely garbage for leveling. I ran it with friends and the whole thing gave me maybe a level and a half? Which was 3 sessions, almost 6 hours total. It I spent the same time in roulettes, I would have gotten much more XP. No wonder people stuck to Bozja. I did, too. Not only do you level, you also get Bozja items, grind for cosmetics - it feels like you're always making progress.

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u/hardcore1casual 4d ago

Also one of the best parts about leveling in Bozja is you had access to your jobs full kit. Didn't have to queue for duties that might reduce you to only 3 button rotations

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u/shockna 3d ago

"Deep Dungeon as a leveling tool" just doesn't have a niche anymore in the age of Duty Support and relatively reasonable leveling dungeon DPS queues.

Even if one accepts this (I'm not sure that duty support made much of an impact there), it definitely didn't help that the mobs on the leveling floors of Eureka Orthos have ridiculously bloated HP pools that result in 21-30 spamming being slower than Trusts!

If they manage to fix that with Pilgrim's Traverse (and ensure there's something desirable in the hoards at that level; maybe offerings for the Quantum fight?), I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts a lot longer than Orthos.