Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
That website is clickbait with bad methodology and has been widely criticized in multiple game communities for their numbers more or less being completely made up. Not a credible source whatsoever. None of the numbers that website supposedly has access to, such as daily logins, are accessible to anyone except SE.

The best census work with a well document methodology we have to go on is via Lucky Bancho. Here's the FFXIV census as of 2/7/2021

If I'm reading it right, that's still a respectable number. FF XIV's population has never been the absolute biggest, but I'd say it's one of the most loyal fan bases.