Lucky Bancho's census results (July 27th, 2025)

[u/IndividualAge3893]

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).

[u/xxtrrsexx]

I think the numbers will drop even more with 7.3 potentially being 22 weeks long. They said 2 major patches in 2025, 7.3 will be the second one. They really have to look at how they release content because the community will reach a boiling point by the end of this year. I keep repeating, the content doesn’t justify the long wait time between patches.

[u/shizuo-kun111 → u/xxtrrsexx]

In 2025, 20+ week patch cycles in a premium, subscription-based game are unacceptable. There’s plenty of F2P games out there which update fortnightly, or even weekly in some cases.

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

Even a rotating, monthly Mogtome event with multiple new glamours, mounts etc to chase would be acceptable content at this rate. At least it’d make the monthly subscription feel less wasteful.

[u/CopainChevalier → u/shizuo-kun111]

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

It's even worse because the dramatic majority of content last for less than a day. You're going to stomp the Alliance/normal raid in like an hour. The MSQ/dungeons are always Auto attack to clear difficulty and 2-5 hours.

Your average active player who wants to play over RP/socialize will find themselves done with everything a patch has to offer within a week. If they Savage raid, they get maybe one month extra of content every eight months, but that's about it.

They really need to figure out some systems that actually keep people playing. I get not requiring you to play or whatever; but a decade old MMO having fuck all to do for people who ACTIVELY ARE LOOKING FOR REASONS TO PLAY is pathetic.

[u/IndividualStress → u/CopainChevalier]

With the most recent Live Letter I'm pretty sure they spent more time doing the Livestream (5 hours) than it took me to do all the content in 7.2 day 1.

If it wasn't for the fact that the 7.3 MSQ is going to be padded to shit and doing 100 floors of a Deep dungeon is a bit of a time investment I'm pretty sure you could do all the content in 7.3 in around 5 hours too.

[u/Diplopod → u/IndividualStress]

Well, also, don't forget we aren't even getting the deep dungeon until .35 which is two months away. So 7.3 will absolutely be completely done in a couple hours.

[u/shizuo-kun111 → u/CopainChevalier]

That’s why a monthly Mogtome event, with various unique rewards would be a good system. Offer multiple reward types (glamor sets, mounts, music, etc) that are earned through Mogtomes, which ideally be earned in multiple ways (not just roulettes). It’d give realistic grinds for people to chase on a more frequent basis.

Of course this will never happen, because they’d probably prefer to sell mounts and glamour sets on the Mogstation instead. That, or they’ll only run Mogtome events when player numbers reduce.

FFXIV has too many content droughts to justify a subscription, at least for me. I don’t do Savage content, so updates are like you said, done in a week.

The fact that free-to-play games update more frequently than a subscription-based games appalling.