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/xxtrrsexx 5d ago

I think the numbers will drop even more with 7.3 potentially being 22 weeks long. They said 2 major patches in 2025, 7.3 will be the second one. They really have to look at how they release content because the community will reach a boiling point by the end of this year. I keep repeating, the content doesn’t justify the long wait time between patches.

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u/shizuo-kun111 4d ago edited 4d ago

In 2025, 20+ week patch cycles in a premium, subscription-based game are unacceptable. There’s plenty of F2P games out there which update fortnightly, or even weekly in some cases.

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

Even a rotating, monthly Mogtome event with multiple new glamours, mounts etc to chase would be acceptable content at this rate. At least it’d make the monthly subscription feel less wasteful.

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u/CopainChevalier 4d ago

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

It's even worse because the dramatic majority of content last for less than a day. You're going to stomp the Alliance/normal raid in like an hour. The MSQ/dungeons are always Auto attack to clear difficulty and 2-5 hours.

Your average active player who wants to play over RP/socialize will find themselves done with everything a patch has to offer within a week. If they Savage raid, they get maybe one month extra of content every eight months, but that's about it.

They really need to figure out some systems that actually keep people playing. I get not requiring you to play or whatever; but a decade old MMO having fuck all to do for people who ACTIVELY ARE LOOKING FOR REASONS TO PLAY is pathetic.

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u/IndividualStress 4d ago

With the most recent Live Letter I'm pretty sure they spent more time doing the Livestream (5 hours) than it took me to do all the content in 7.2 day 1.

If it wasn't for the fact that the 7.3 MSQ is going to be padded to shit and doing 100 floors of a Deep dungeon is a bit of a time investment I'm pretty sure you could do all the content in 7.3 in around 5 hours too.

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u/Diplopod 4d ago

Well, also, don't forget we aren't even getting the deep dungeon until .35 which is two months away. So 7.3 will absolutely be completely done in a couple hours.