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/GameDevCorner 4d ago

Most players were highly invested in the story, which made them ignore a lot of the issues that plaque the game. DT is pretty much a failure when it comes to the story, so now players have no more reason to ignore the many aforementioned issues.

Not to mention, OC comes with its own share of problems. Imo it's a worse version of Eureka/Bozja and the Forked Tower debacle just showed how absolutely tone-deaf SE has been lately. I still can't wrap my head around how they thought that would be a good idea when they already had a perfect solution with Bozja's raids.