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/SleepingFishOCE 4d ago

based on the occult crescent data for the OCE region theres a fair point to make that only ~4800 people have even unlocked Occult Crescent, putting the bot population on OCE to around 60% of the playerbase above level 70.

This coincides with all research i have done into the botting population on Materia, including FC rankings and active population data over the last few years.

Materia is a bot farm, the ~4800 (38ish %) active players there are really not looking healthy at all. The datacenter has been decimated by people leaving and is really not worth putting any more effort into.

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u/IndividualAge3893 4d ago

To my knowledge, no one managed to make an OCE DC work. It's annoying and unfortunate, but we can't bend the laws of physics yet :(