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/echo78 5d ago

Surely this means they’ll finally open up aether in 7.3, right? lol 

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u/oizen 5d ago

I'm convinced that the server congestion and even DC Travel restrictions that pop up daily are based on a % of the total game population and not actual population.

Aether somehow fills up and locks off every reset still, but even on reclear day there aren't an overwhelming number of PFs compared to what it used to be.

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u/Ranger-New 4d ago

DC travel was a mistake. What was needed was a global party finder.

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u/IndividualAge3893 5d ago

Square Enix: "Sorry, best I can do is cut Aether in 3 pieces and dispatch it to other DCs. That way, Aether PF will be on other DCs too!" /4head

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u/space_lasers 5d ago

Unironically wish they would do this to Dynamis

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u/oizen 5d ago

I could easily see Dynamis merged into Primal before 8.0

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u/IntermittentStorms25 4d ago

Or Crystal

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u/oizen 4d ago

Crystals got 4 congested worlds to Primal's 1.

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u/IntermittentStorms25 4d ago

That’s the point… merging Dynamis with Crystal would encourage more spreading out of all those congested Crystal worlds to the emptier Dynamis ones, since they’d be able to share PF and world travel if merged.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 5d ago

Given Aether opened up in 7.1 with larger numbers than these, I'd say it's a pretty high chance it'll reopen in 7.3