Official Eorzea Census 2016

http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/50236197.html

Some key points --

A9S 82,078 cleared players.
A10S 67,240 cleared players.
A11S 38,614 cleared players.
A12S 19,725 cleared players.

Assuming the unofficial census's lodestone parse of ~357,000 currently active level 60 characters is accurate, that's a ~5.5% clear rate as of now.

DRK is now the most played tank at 47%. WAR is second at 34% and PLD is now last at 29%. That's a huge turn around from a year ago when PLD was the most played.

SCH is the most played healed at 43%. WHM is second with 36%. AST is last at 22%.

SMN is the most played DPS job at 20%. BLM is the next highest at 16%. BRD is at 15%, DRG and MNK are tied at 14%, and NIN and MCH are the two least played DPS jobs at 12% and 8% respectively.

PotD Floor 200 has a 13.1% clear rate amongst characters who've progressed past 100.

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Originally Posted by Brian_

Assuming the unofficial census's lodestone parse of ~357,000 currently active level 60 characters is accurate, that's a ~5.5% clear rate as of now.

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In line with other games where the elite content is only played by a very small minority of players but consumes a disproportionate amount of development resources.

What's the divide between all the races by population then?
Interested in that

Thanks for the link, I hope all will be fully translated and posted on the lodestone like for 2015.

Huho What happend between 2015 and 2016 on the EU datacenter with the gender distribution, It's like female characters have vanished a lot ( -23%) ! xD

2015:
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/Eorze...N_Census_S.png

2016:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...500b747f-s.jpg

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Originally Posted by GenericMagus

What's the divide between all the races by population then?
Interested in that

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Character genders: JP - 49% female, 51% male; NA - 39% female, 61% male; EU - 41% female, 59% male

Races:

JP
Aura - 8%
Hyuran - 28%
Elezen - 7%
Lalafell - 28%
Miqo'te - 25%
Roegadyn - 4%

NA
Aura - 10%
Hyuran - 29%
Elezen - 9%
Lalafell - 17%
Miqo'te - 29%
Roegadyn - 6%

EU
Aura - 10%
Hyuran - 29%
Elezen - 8%
Lalafell - 18%
Miqo'te - 31%
Roegadyn - 4%
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The lack of Au Ra popularity kind of surprises me. Maybe it's because they look to similar to Hyurs? I tend to see plenty on Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

The lack of Au Ra popularity kind of surprises me. Maybe it's because they look to similar to Hyurs? I tend to see plenty on Balmung.

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Horns clipping through everything and neck/head scales are a bit annoying parts of Au Ra.

Tho if they'd just give us option to completely remove scales from neck/head, I might stay as Au Ra permanently. I somewhat forced myself to keep using long hairstyles on Au Ra since short ones revealed the scales on neck, which in turn added more clipping with chest armor and weapons.

Kinda hoping that we'd see character creation updates on 4.0 release and we'd get more control on Au Ra scales; maybe options for more or less scales for those who want.

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Horns clipping through everything

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Horn Clipping is crazy terrible, I hope Horn Customization comes in 3.0...

https://puu.sh/k6AFA/2d5e723ba8.png

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The lack of Au Ra popularity kind of surprises me. Maybe it's because they look to similar to Hyurs? I tend to see plenty on Balmung.

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I'm skeptic about whether those numbers are representative of the active player community. Perhaps it's different on other server, but I would also say that I see quite the high number of Au Ra on a daily basis. Considerably more often than I see an Elezen which is reportedly near equal in rarity. I just can't help but feel that the numbers are misleading.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

I'm skeptic about whether those numbers are representative of the active player community. Perhaps it's different on other server, but I would also say that I see quite the high number of Au Ra on a daily basis. Considerably more often than I see an Elezen which is reportedly near equal in rarity. I just can't help but feel that the numbers are misleading.

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Do the numbers include bots? There could be thousands of Hyur living beneath the plains of Thanalan.

A12s clear rate is better than A8s and A4s clear rate so that is a good start.

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I'm skeptic about whether those numbers are representative of the active player community.

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Same - We had a lot of these unofficial mining things by now and, well... Au Ra have become nearly as popular as miqo'te among 60s.
http://imgur.com/a/ENWVb
http://imgur.com/ga08fvN
https://ffxivcensus.com/

I dunno.

The few. The proud. The Roegadyn...and Elezen.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...62/994/a4a.gif

It makes sense aura don't look popular by census numbers. All those characters created by players at the start of 2.0 and who quit during the first free month are still there. This alone is probably a ton of characters because most sales with video games usually happen within first days of the games release. All those characters created on free trials are still here. Same for characers who belong to anyone who got ARR for cheap sale and then didn't stay for long because they got bored. None of these players had access to au ra.

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Originally Posted by Ariane

It makes sense aura don't look popular by census numbers. All those characters created by players at the start of 2.0 and who quit during the first free month are still there. This alone is probably a ton of characters because most sales with video games usually happen within first days of the games release. All those characters created on free trials are still here. Same for characers who belong to anyone who got ARR for cheap sale and then didn't stay for long because they got bored. None of these players had access to au ra.

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Not sure about that, do those breakdowns by race and gender only count 'active' players or everyone? If it was everyone, including the 100's of thousands of bots that have been permabanned I'd expect Hyur to be even higher than they are.

Aura - master race.

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Originally Posted by Galaktica

The few. The proud. The Roegadyn...and Elezen.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...62/994/a4a.gif

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I personally prefer being of a rare race. I won't have so many clones.

I would prefer an actual survey that we would have to take for us to get the accurate numbers. Hyur numbers are huge do to the bots. I also personally see way more AuRas around than shown in census. Also, I believe I see way more females than males. It could be just my server, but it's what I see.

Thank goodness PLD is now the least played tank. The fact that it was the most played until now is what was possibly stopping it from getting a buff. SE, please, buff PLD already!

The male/ female characters are definitely off they have to be counting bots on NA/EU servers

That's crazy that Drk overtook Pld and Smn is the most played DPS job how things have changed since 2.X I just wonder if the dev team knows that people don't like Pld as much as they used to and what their future plans are.

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Originally Posted by Brian_

Some key points --

A9S 82,078 cleared players.
A10S 67,240 cleared players.
A11S 38,614 cleared players.
A12S 19,725 cleared players.

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Depends on who you talking to if they key points as I could personally care less how many people have cleared savage alex floors.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Depends on who you talking to if they key points as I could personally care less how many people have cleared savage alex floors.

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Was this necessary?

So I should remove that from the post because you don't personally care about it?

Got a translated version of these charts? Or does such a thing not exist?

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Got a translated version of these charts? Or does such a thing not exist?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._2016/dbf0n5i/

Someone on reddit translated it.

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Was this necessary?

So I should remove that from the post because if you don't personally care about it?

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Maybe it matters to you, but you could word it in that way.

It's time to buff ninja in PvP.

The official census is done on the 9+ millions of registered accounts, including hyur and lalafell bots and people who haven't played since 2013-14, so some of the data included is not really relevant, though things like savage clear rates or rarest titles/mounts are 100% accurate.

The fact that it includes people who haven't played since before HW launch is why Au Ra appears so low, when according to the unofficial census Female Au Ra is the second most played after Female Miqo'te.

(derp me, accidentally posted this in another thread)

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In line with other games where the elite content is only played by a very small minority of players but consumes a disproportionate amount of development resources.

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Not really, at least not at the moment, as the savage mode is just an extension of normal (which would have much higher clear rates). Also, it's nice to have (optional) content that does offer a significant challenge should you want it.

That said, I am a bit worried about savage mode come 4.0, which is supposedly going to be getting it's own bits of story. Not only does that increase the dev time, but it locks lore behind content that only few % can / will (/ should) ever clear... and that was the issue non-raiders had with raids in early WoW, which of course lead to endless calls for an 'easy mode', and we all know how that turned out #LFR. Not a good road to go down.

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Thanks for the link, I hope all will be fully translated and posted on the lodestone like for 2015.

Huho What happend between 2015 and 2016 on the EU datacenter with the gender distribution, It's like female characters have vanished a lot ( -23%) ! xD

2015:
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/Eorze...N_Census_S.png

2016:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...500b747f-s.jpg

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I always have a tough time believing these gender ratios. Like 90% of the people I know play female characters.
Also, holy shit that Europe shift!

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Huho What happend between 2015 and 2016 on the EU datacenter with the gender distribution, It's like female characters have vanished a lot ( -23%) ! xD

2015:
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/Eorze...N_Census_S.png

2016:
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/tekitou_m...500b747f-s.jpg

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That was also the first thing I noticed! Didn't even have the old numbers but remembered that we had a huge tilt towards female characters, so seeing this I was like "What the heck? How did that even happen?"

Also, what's with the weird ratio for the GCs? Not to be rude, but..this is the first time in ages I hear of more than a handful of people being in Twin Adders at all.
But here it's like twice the numbers Maelstrom has? Huh?

Equally shocked /beckon won over /sit, which I thought was obviously the most used emote of all.
Especially since I have never seen beckon being used..or am I mixing emotes up?

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Equally shocked /beckon won over /sit, which I thought was obviously the most used emote of all.
Especially since I have never seen beckon being used..or am I mixing emotes up?

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Beckon can be explained because it is used in Escort levequest. And not only once per said levequest but many times since I guess players tend to spam it (more than necessary as I am also coupable) so the pet, or whatever you're escorting, keeps on moving :)

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Beckon can be explained because it is used in Escort levequest. And not only once per said levequest but many times since I guess players tend to spam it (more than necessary as I am also coupable) so the pet, or whatever you're escorting, keeps on moving :)

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Oooh, that makes sense! I never did leves outside of the handful you need to do for ARR relic books, so that kind of eluded me.
Thanks for clearing that up!^^

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Also, holy shit that Europe shift!

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Most bots are male Midlanders.

The fun thing about statistics is that without knowing how the numbers came to be, judgement is always a little iffy. See also: More Roegadyn than Au Ra in due to counting all characters, instead of active ones.

Poor roegadyns XD

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Also, what's with the weird ratio for the GCs? Not to be rude, but..this is the first time in ages I hear of more than a handful of people being in Twin Adders at all.
But here it's like twice the numbers Maelstrom has? Huh?

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Most people I know picked the same GC as their starting city. Limsa has one less starting class than the other two cities so it makes sense to me that it's a bit behind.
As for why Adders has the most I would guess it's because DRG and WHM are popular job goals for new players and Gridania has the starting class for both.

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Originally Posted by Lufir

Poor roegadyns XD

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Eh. We're a happy community who rarely run into clones of ourselves~

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Depends on who you talking to if they key points as I could personally care less how many people have cleared savage alex floors.

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Sorry, it's not possible to calculate who has the coolest glamour from the stats we have.