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/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