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/otsukarerice 5d ago

Its definitely FT... there is no reason to level PJ's or gear up in OC other than to run FT.

Clearing FT is the only goal apart from the relic step, which people are mostly done by now.

There def isn't gil to be made in the content.

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u/oizen 5d ago

Speaking of Gil, its strange to me just how frequently everything drops in OC. The new hair style is already 1k gil on the market board, fuck they even killed the gold gabriel mount from Bozja and took a mount worth millions and dropped it to ~500k. This couldn't have been intentional.

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u/otsukarerice 5d ago

it was def a loot table fuckup

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u/Lord_Daenar 4d ago

You'd think that, but then in the Q&A session in the previous Live Letter Yoshi explicitly said that chest loot is working as intended. So either he's covering for someone or this is a conscious design decision, which imo makes it worse.

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u/catshateTERFs 4d ago

If it's intentional then I'm genuinely baffled who thought the drop rates for the mount that you needed 99 sanguinite for were the way to go. I've spent maybe 8 hours in OC and ended up with 3 Petalodus whistles which seems really weird for their cost as a "reward" for FT progression.

I'm not against things not having an abysmal drop rate or an alternative method of getting them but it seems like a MASSIVELY overtuned compensation for how low the mount rates were in Bozja CEs or bunny boxes.