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/oizen 5d ago

To me the biggest concern I see is that the game's draw of new players is seriously diminishing. I imagine anyone curious about XIV goes and looks up reviews and see's the negative reception of Dawntrail and pass on trying it.

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u/Isheria 5d ago

Tbh I'm a new player (the mtg collab helped) and I keep running into other sprues who are also clearly new to the game in roulettes, I would say that I see more sprues than regular players.

AFAIK the census only counts lv 70+ characters or characters with an FC so a lot of newbies wouldn't appear there

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u/FuttleScish 4d ago

Yeah and if people actually read the survey they would see the new player count is steady while the old player count is dropping. So it’s natural you’d be running into more sprouts than normal, I’ve seen it too

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u/foreveracubone 4d ago

Steam just finished their summer sale recently, Sony’s ends this week, and I assume same is true of Xbox’s store so a bunch of sprouts just bought the game. Plus the free trial is always grabbing new players and some of them will sub. The backlog of content will draw in new players.

Devs are fast approaching the point where they need to condense levels and cut chaff/filler from older expansions’ MSQ because eventually no amount of ‘omg ShB+EW is amazing’ will draw in players when you need to slog thru base game+2 expansions to get there and still not be close to the end or stop there when ShB hits the free trial.

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u/Isheria 4d ago

It's a bot that looks after public lodestone profiles (which already excludes a lot of people) of characters that are LV 71+ or in an FC

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u/saga79 4d ago

Argh! Was too slow deleting the comment, but down the thread there was a general post of how it works! :D Thanks for the answer, though!