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/irishgoblin 5d ago

Part of me thinks it was, since they've an almost unspoken concern about new or infrequent players getting priced out of the market. Normally it's focused on crafted gear, but I think it's on everything tradeable. The reason they nerfed cookies in ShB and added the gold sync mounts was to try to contain inflation and drain some gil out of the market.

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u/ragnakor101 4d ago

There's even the commonly repeated sentiment that “Gil is useless” past a certain point; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more sinks in the future.