Quote Originally Posted by CNitsah View Post
And when you put it with other hints like the data from steam, the general mood on the forum and with content creators, the fact that suddenly there are dozens of houses available after being nearly impossible to get one for a long period of time(I checked the goblet, Shirogane and the Noscea one, and very few are complete. Most zone have between 1 and 7 or 8 houses on 30 available - with the record being 15 free houses), it becomes hard to deny there isn't some sort of loss of interest and disengagement that is stronger than the normal loss during a patch cycle.
The housing thing is a definite clear omen yeah. On Ragnarok open plots were a rarity, and when they popped up they would be highly contested. Now in my ward alone there's 4 open slots and the biggest surprise for me was that last I checked, those plots had no bids whatsoever.

Again, it's not cold hard numbers for sure. But when all these little things are all pointing to the same problem, you've got to start wondering.