Been seeing a lot of doomsaying in forums/in-game lately

[Nizzi]

Can't speak for anyone else, but my discontent comes from the state of healers. It's hard to feel excited for anything when faced with the reality that what I want to play is going to remain boring 1 button spam for another 2 years at least, and will likely remain that way far beyond that.

[Nethereal]

Can't speak for anyone else, but my discontent comes from the state of healers. It's hard to feel excited for anything when faced with the reality that what I want to play is going to remain boring 1 button spam for another 2 years at least, and will likely remain that way far beyond that.

Tried SMN yesterday. Think I found a new main. It's like healer, brain dead but I have rotation.

[IdowhatIwant]

Well you have the fact that as of Feb 2022, over 800k characters completed the MSQ at least. That's up from previous expansion numbers, which were about 560k for SHB and 616k in SB in the same timeframe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...tails_are_out/


You have a more accurate comparison that Lucky Bancho's site offers every few months:

Heres the report from Janurary: https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/56364034.html

Heres the report from April: https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/56584369.html

Jan 2022: https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckyban...3/e3af7fb0.png
April 2022: https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/luckyban...2/d20b09dd.png

Rough Translation of the numbers:

The number of active characters is about 1.7 million, an increase of 350,000 from the previous (1.35 million).
The number of new characters increased by about 250,000 from the previous 180,000 to 430,000.
The last time inactive was 160,000 returning characters that were active this time, up 40,000 from the previous 120,000.
The number of active (return?) characters since the last time has increased from 1.04 million, up 60,000 to about 1.1 million.
The moon started at 1.33 million (up 300,000). The Dawning Level Cap reached 970,000 (up 330,000). The moon clear is 880,000 (up 310,000).


So game is definitely growing. They are mostly parsing data from lodestone against hitting certain quest milestones in MSQ, some side quests, Job levels, etcetc. There's a GitHub that explains how they classify the data a bit more and how they weed out and account for bots.

I think a lot of these number hikes are also spill over from the launch issue. You have to remember that there are a lot of people that just quit and opted to try the game out later during the launch due to the queue times. There were players that purchased the game that were not even able to create a character due to servers being full. It would be interesting as well to see how many of those new characters are also just alts, as it seems making alts is far more popular that I would have expected it to be in this game.

Tried SMN yesterday. Think I found a new main. It's like healer, brain dead but I have rotation.

Ironic you would complain about healer being a one button dps, to pick a dps that is also one button. Maybe I missed a joke but I typically assume most people are stupid.