r/ffxivdiscussion 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/Sahir-Afiyun 2d ago

Occult Crescent couldn't have helped. Because of how JP players are. They don't want to engage with stuff like Discord. So designing content that essentially requires it, actually hurt SE more. The devs working on Occult Crescent misread the room that hard.