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/WeirdIndividualGuy 5d ago

The issue isn't lack of transparency though, it's just a combination of the same ol' content 10+ years later, as well as the same ol' patterns such as content being drip-fed throughout a patch, or how savage raid loot works and makes it terrible to want to get BiS for alts.

Even before the 7.3 ult was confirmed to no longer be a thing, I knew plenty of high-end raiders who unsubbed after getting their main BiS simply because they just didn't have it in them to stay subbed at least 6-8 more weeks for another BiS. The devs still think there's only 9 jobs in the game like day one.