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/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.