Quote Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE View Post
I mean, Luckybancho updated 4 days ago with the new census data.
https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/wsurve...?world=Materia

(Please remember that the Data only includes players that have a level 70 job, or a gunbreaker/dancer at level 60) ~This is to avoid free trial/bots being counted in the census.

Materia is a sample size of 18,982 players that met the criteria for the Materia census.

Around ~1700 of those characters existed before 2021. meaning the majority of Materia are either New players, or Alt Characters.

The population of the previous Census 3 months ago was 24,053 Characters. That is a loss of 5,071 characters in the 3 month period.



The above image shows the shift in players over the 3 month period.


What does this tell us about Materia?
1) The majoirty of the player base are new or alt characters.
2) Player retention is very low, at around 78%
3) More players are transferring in, than transferring out, but more people are leaving the game than joining.


Some additional Information:
1) 55.2% of players have never touched eureka.
2) 55.1% of players have never touched Bozja.
3) There is a staggering 970 free companies with 1 character in them (Gold bots/farmers/sellers).
4) The average FC size is 1-3 players.
5) 8.2% of players obtained the 6.2 Savage mount.
6) 61.4% of players have completed the 6.0 Endwalker MSQ (Based on having the Argos mount unlocked from the final 6.0 MSQ)
This kinda plays into what I made the post about

People make new accounts on materia, level up then transfer away from materia so it’s basically perpetual new people

I did a random test and asked 15 instances of people in the MSQ roulette who remembers the old MSQ roulette, of the 23 answers I got only 2 remembered the old MSQ roulette

I guess I just got burned out on assisting the constantly cycling population meaning the high level content never popped