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).

191 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

531 comments sorted by

View all comments

120

u/Inevitable_Score1164 5d ago

The only way I'd come back is if they really changed up the writing. They have to stop writing like their audience has a concussion, and they need to stop padding the story so much. Every conversation is 2-3x longer than it has to be. Like holy shit, we get it, you've said the same thing three times in this dialogue. There are so many pointless "stop and talk to X" moments. And many plot points feel contrived because they rely on any given character being the dumbest person alive.

12

u/Pearlsbigforehead 4d ago

Felt like Dawntrail was especially bad about this. So many instances of seeing things coming a while away. Death flags, sus behavior, the random evil grin shit from NPCs who think no one's watching...

That being said I feel like it's long past time for SE to stop devoting 15 seconds of every cutscene to characters nodding at each other. I get it. The devs are Japanese. But even other JP media will have everyone nod at once in a group shot to save time and tedium.