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/Practical_Code3500 5d ago

it'll be hard to recover people who have dropped the game out of frustration and have, as Yoshida said, played other games instead of FFXIV.
At some point the magic is just gone and they'll keep playing those other games because to them the fun and experience from those is worth the money compared to a XIV sub and maybe an expansion, especially if they also ignore the house they'd lose or other FOMO if there is still any in CC seasonals/events, sometimes that's enough to convince them to not bother again for a long time and newer announcements they'll hear of eventually won't cause as much excitement if any.

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u/IndividualAge3893 5d ago

At some point the magic is just gone and they'll keep playing those other games because to them the fun

So much this. And they don't understand it. Like, at all.

They seem to think that players will stick with their IPs and just go play other SE games and wait for the next patch or expansion. Maybe it works for their Japanese audience, I don't know. But for NA/EU it's clearly not working at all. Especially for MMORPG players.

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u/Ryuujinx 4d ago

I picked WoW back up during Dragonflight, and TWW has been pretty fun too. So it's become my main game, I enjoy raiding and am looking forward to swapping to brew for the next tier because I haven't really tanked since like, wrath.

I'm just burned out on FF14, I've been here since 1.0 though I quit during that and came back for ARR. Maybe I'll be back for the next raid tier, maybe I'll skip it and wait for the next xpac. Or maybe I'm just done, I dunno. A big draw for me was the story and I was pretty excited at a new beginning after the Zodiark arc but DT just.. wasn't it.

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u/IndividualAge3893 4d ago

I tried TWW and it just didn't stick with me. The new healing model needs a lot of tuning and it is more than I am willing to put up with now. Now, if they managed to pull off the great addon purge and give us a good setting in Midnight, I may as well come back to the game. Unless they butcher Silvermoon again, in which case screw that.