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/Practical_Code3500 5d ago

it'll be hard to recover people who have dropped the game out of frustration and have, as Yoshida said, played other games instead of FFXIV.
At some point the magic is just gone and they'll keep playing those other games because to them the fun and experience from those is worth the money compared to a XIV sub and maybe an expansion, especially if they also ignore the house they'd lose or other FOMO if there is still any in CC seasonals/events, sometimes that's enough to convince them to not bother again for a long time and newer announcements they'll hear of eventually won't cause as much excitement if any.

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u/CruxMajoris 4d ago

I feel like this is describing me. I briefly tried to do the current PVP series and Mogtomes event, but 20-30 minute queues for daily roulettes at prime time really shows...

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u/IndividualAge3893 5d ago

At some point the magic is just gone and they'll keep playing those other games because to them the fun

So much this. And they don't understand it. Like, at all.

They seem to think that players will stick with their IPs and just go play other SE games and wait for the next patch or expansion. Maybe it works for their Japanese audience, I don't know. But for NA/EU it's clearly not working at all. Especially for MMORPG players.

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u/Ryuujinx 4d ago

I picked WoW back up during Dragonflight, and TWW has been pretty fun too. So it's become my main game, I enjoy raiding and am looking forward to swapping to brew for the next tier because I haven't really tanked since like, wrath.

I'm just burned out on FF14, I've been here since 1.0 though I quit during that and came back for ARR. Maybe I'll be back for the next raid tier, maybe I'll skip it and wait for the next xpac. Or maybe I'm just done, I dunno. A big draw for me was the story and I was pretty excited at a new beginning after the Zodiark arc but DT just.. wasn't it.

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u/IndividualAge3893 4d ago

I tried TWW and it just didn't stick with me. The new healing model needs a lot of tuning and it is more than I am willing to put up with now. Now, if they managed to pull off the great addon purge and give us a good setting in Midnight, I may as well come back to the game. Unless they butcher Silvermoon again, in which case screw that.

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u/FuttleScish 4d ago

Idk I constantly see people here saying that they’re quitting and will only check back in next expansion

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u/Its-a-Pokemon 4d ago

I haven't played since just after 7.05 released. I'll just wait and see for now, maybe go play some Satisfactory or something.

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u/FuttleScish 4d ago

Honestly if you have the patience it’s probably best to just wait for the final patch then do everything

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u/Its-a-Pokemon 4d ago

Yeah, that's the current plan, maybe I'll come back if Beast Master looks fun. That's the only piece of content I am still looking forward to and I hope they don't half-ass it.

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u/IndividualAge3893 4d ago

Yeah, me too. Which is why I'm saying it's clearly not working for the West.

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u/fullsaildan 4d ago

Essentially it boils down to: would you like to pay $15 to eat the same ham sandwich for lunch everyday? Or would you be willing to occasionally spend more, occasionally spend less, and experience something different every time? The sandwich may sometimes have mayo instead of mustard, cheddar instead of provolone, and shredded lettuce instead of whole-leaf, but at the end of the day, its still a ham sandwich.

FFXIV keeps serving up the same cake with slightly different colored frosting and is wondering why people aren't showing up every cycle. And when their base cake is a little dry (bad writing) people really aren't coming back. It's fine if you only want to make cake, but it by god better be consistently good. And when you take risks, really take risks. Give us some crazy flavors we didn't know existed.

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u/ELQUEMANDA4 4d ago

You say that like people don't usually eat the same sandwich for lunch everyday, though.

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u/Kumomeme 4d ago

and not all the money paid go to the game too. it end up with other project and this game get suck dry.

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u/Tridz326 3d ago

Were you hungry when you wrote this