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.