Lodestone Survey (unofficial Eorzean Census)

[Crescents]

It's kind of funny how with most races the popularity of each clan is pretty equal for both genders with Au Ra being the outlier having Raen more popular with female characters (most of the time) and Xaela more popular with males.

[enthauptet]

I'm having a hard time believing these numbers for Jenova, I know for a fact that there is more then 114 people that have the Icebreaker title, as this data also states 158 people have The Dragonsong title. How can more people have a recent MSQ title that's locked behind a much earlier MSQ requirement?

Maybe it counts the people that are currently using the title, instead of how many unlocked the archievement.

It is the number of people. Like on famfrit the 1 master fisher person is the feefster.

[zosia]

Ah, look at those active subs, mmmm, MMMMM! SO GOOD!

[loreleidiangelo]

New survey is out.

Total amount of active characters [difference to last survey]:

20. April 2016 - 11. August 2016
507.722 [- 131.863]
195.507 [- 31.246] JP
219.566 [- 71.252] NA
92.649 [- 29.366] EU

That NA attrition is pretty severe, yikes.

EDIT: Is there any way of telling how much the active character count is being propped up by alts? Going by what I read on the forums, some people have as many as 3+ characters that they occasionally play.

[zosia]

That NA attrition is pretty severe, yikes.

looks like the NA player base almost shrunk by half in one year! ONE YEAR!

In that same year, Yoshida lost a 3rd of the JP community and about half of the EU playerbase too.

/golfclap.

Yoshida will be known as the producer that both saved this game and killed it soon after.

[Atoli]

What this survey is telling me is that pretty much no one has "The Reaper" title on Lich, so I should switch to that. Good to know

It's just that no one is using it, not that they don't have it.
One of the rarest titles on Ragnarok is "Cascadier" with only 1 person. Well, I have it, and I know several of my friends from legacy days have it too.
But none of us are using it because it's not pretty xD So yeah. Rare used title doesn't mean no one has it^^

Yoshida will be known as the producer that both saved this game and killed it soon after.

Well obviously someone has no idea about the natural cycles in an MMO life where population ALWAYS goes up for expansion releases and drops afterwards again..
What you need to compare is "this late into 2.x" with "this late into 3.x". There is a slight drop, yes, but nothing major as you make it out to be.

[Jadub2k]

Well obviously someone has no idea about the natural cycles in an MMO life where population ALWAYS goes up for expansion releases and drops afterwards again..
What you need to compare is "this late into 2.x" with "this late into 3.x". There is a slight drop, yes, but nothing major as you make it out to be.

While this is ture, whats also ture is that 3.4 will bring people back for that patch. Problem with that is the Really serious players will have smashed everything in the 1st 2 weeks, then everyone else in a month.. after that point, People mysteriously disappear suddenly until the next patch.. and its been like this for the last 5-7 patches.. when you can't create content that holds peoples attention for more then a month thats a problem and its not just NA, its effecting JP too.. and now that Legion is out, there's no way you can tell me that 507K are still playing this. It feels like FFXIV has become the "Back up MMO" instead of the 1st MMO you goto which kinda hurts my heart a bit but there it is and the dev team seems to be content with this..

[Jynx]

It feels like FFXIV has become the "Back up MMO" instead of the 1st MMO you goto which kinda hurts my heart a bit but there it is and the dev team seems to be content with this..

Considering how forgiving the catch-up mechanics and the short shelf life of "Current" content I don't doubt this. FFXIV has shot itself in the foot for long term sustainability, but perhaps that's not what SE is concerned about sadly. It could be that they want to wring as much cash out of the players while maintaining the facade of a pay to play MMO, time will tell and I sincerely hope that's not the case.

[Sparktacus]

Lady cats, always lady cats. Why is this not surprising.

[Atoli]

Lady cats, always lady cats. Why is this not surprising.

It's not like male Midlanders are exactly rare either..