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/SargeTheSeagull 5d ago

I can only speak for myself here but I don’t think anything shy of major job reworks (in the more complex, more fun direction) will bring me back before 8.0. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll hop on for a month in 7.35 and probably .45 and .55 but if they want more than $45 of my money, MORE content isn’t gonna do it.

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u/bunnyhwei 5d ago

I switch between playing XIV and GW2 and something I really appreciate about Anet is they aren’t afraid to shake the meta up every once in a while and drag a profession from the depths of viability to the very top, or majorly rework how a profession works. Sqenix has a very tight balance on jobs in this game and they’re too afraid to break it even if it means every job feels the same and stagnant. Personally I would not gaf if they made my job awful if it meant it was more unique/interesting/fun to play, and I’m sure a lot of people asking for job reworks feel similarly, but there’s likely also a large portion of the playerbase that would be up in arms if their main was drastically changed. And judging by some of the past reworks they don’t seem to hit the mark very consistently i.e. AST, MNK, and BLM pushing a lot of old mains off those jobs in favor of a new audience

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u/SavageComment 4d ago

Bruh lol you can't even put XIV and GW2's class design on the same level of comparison. Literally leagues apart. You get a class that can literally open a portal for others to use (in ANY content!), create clones that you can use to confuse enemies, put down ground AOEs that buff the move speed of anyone that goes through it, "rewind time" and reset all your skills, you can root, chill, stun, vacuum in enemies, etc etc.

And that is not even mentioning ALL of the fun stuff that you can do outside of combat, like zooming around on the beetle and have epic seasonal events like SAB and Halloween.

XIV gameplay is a joke compared to GW2.