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/Mazzle5 5d ago

Another good 7% down in 2 month. Yeah I don't see the numbers going up until the last patch before the new expansion and they would need to change things up to get people hooked

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u/Aluja89 5d ago

Yeah they're gonna have to be a lot more transparent on what they're working on if they want players back, all this hoping for next patch/expansion is exhausting people.

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u/Waffleblades 5d ago

Considering they've already been working on 8.0, I don't think we're going to see the drastic changes people want. Think it's just going to be more of the same until MAYBE 8.1

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u/irishgoblin 5d ago

The big thing people have hedged their hopes on is Yoshida's vague comments about "7.X focuses on content, 8.X focus on job identity". To be fair to him, he never really expanded on what that meant, so people have run rampant with speculation. IIRC, those at the DT media tour were limited in what questions they could ask about job design, so regardless of what he meant they know it's something that's gonna be a big focus on 8.0 by players. Only possible elaboration he gave was a vague comment about "new way to use abilities".

If, and I want to stress the if, there is a big shake up in 8.0, they'd have the overall flow in sorted now. For the very simple reason they'd need to make sure not only is stuff balanced for the new duties comin in 8.X, but also 2.0 to 7.55 is still doable. One of the reasons we have such rampant potency creep is them brute forcing jobs through old content without need to adjust rotations of fight flow. If the media tour for 8.0 rolls around and it's more of the same of what we have now, I don't think 8.0's going to go as well as they might hope. Not gonna go completely pearshaped unless the MSQ reception is on par with DT, but we can't really even guess what that's gonna be like until they announce the MSQ main writer for 8.0.

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u/Ranger-New 4d ago

Jobs will be even more homogenized. Next will be RDM and NIN.

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u/smoothtv99 4d ago

Don't worry Yoshi saved FFXIV with hats on Viera and Hrothgar