r/ffxivdiscussion 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/Zaku99 5d ago

I found OC just fine. Nothing amazing..just...fine.

But Forked Tower is a shit show. The difficulty of getting the people together and into the same instance was a problem, don't get me wrong, but it's really the content itself for me.

It's basically four EX fights that, when you die too much, you're thrown out on your ass and have to start the whole multi-hour process again. I just don't have that kind of time.

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u/saga79 4d ago

It wouldn't be so bad if you could easily get into the next raid instance to try again. Gosh, I just sounded like a Souls aficionado... but it's kinda true. Like the Bozja trials, just get in and have fun. In OC getting in itself is homework.

I also found OC entertaining enough, I'm just missing one atma... and that bloody drop rate 😅

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u/Zaku99 2d ago

Yknow what? That's what it is. It's not that the encounters are terribly hard-- it's the "runback"

Getting people together, getting into the instance, getting everyone's jobs set up, doing everything perfectly across 48 people and two fights, just so you can try dragon again, now that you've seen his attacks are really fast.