Quote Originally Posted by Byrth View Post
A bunch of people deactivated when Guildwork billing clocked over and it caused the rankings to drop, so seeing a sudden drop in your rank isn't actually a very good measure of the number of active players. A number of people had FFXIAH profiles due to using the GW client and didn't have valid LS Community URLs, so when their billing deactivated their XIAH profiles were removed. There was some major billing deadline recently (maybe Guildwork upped the price? idk) and a bunch of people ended up not having FFXIAH profiles anymore because they didn't pay it.
The whole thing with ranking means nothing.. especially considering pretty much none of the JP are even listed (and if they were I am fairly sure many ppl's ranks would drop significantly). You can have all jobs 99, craft at 100 and a couple empys which would give you a high ranking... doesnt necessarily make you a good player