Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
FFXIV, meanwhile, is at its highest active playerbase ever during EW. The spikes were the highest, and even the troughs are still significantly higher than at similar points in past expansions. They can't stand the reality that the game is doing well and your typical casual gamer of today loves FFXIV.
Retention has been absolutely abysmal as a proportion of the people that showed up for Endwalker launch. The game's population has fallen back down to Shadowbringers levels, and is only continuing to trend downwards lmao. The population has peaked, and will never come close to that peak again.