The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Schan]

https://steamcharts.com/app/39210#All

Player numbers are the lowest they've been in the last 5 years.

7.0 to 7.1 saw the lowest % of the total playerbase return for a patch of all time. Every other expansion has seen 50% of the playerbase return for its x.1 patch. Only 30% came back for 7.1.

7.1 released 1 week ago and daily peaks are back down to the same numbers that they were before the patch.

You're welcome to cope but the numbers don't lie. People are leaving en masse.

I don't know where you got this idea that my experience is the TRUTH and therefore you have to post your own incomplete information just to disagree.

Things are never as straightforward as you try make it out to be.

Forums people are a fraction of the community. Not everyone that plays FFXIV play it on steam so their numbers are also incomplete, and what you experience daily is also a fragment of the community (every player does not play at the same time)

There is a probability that the people quitting are just the steam people, the same way there is a probability that some of these groups overlap. Only SE knows the full numbers.

The only thing I can say is that I haven't noticed any change in the community. Loads of RP venues, queue times are still fast, Limsa is still full of (AFK) people.

Then there's the fact that FFXIV is kind of seasonal. Some players will come, play the MSQ and then leave. Rinse and repeat. So you throwing Steam numbers at me means nothing because we lack context. Did you just pick a timeframe where it so happens people are unsubbing because they have played the MSQ? How would this chart look if you snipped a timeframe where an expansion dropped? or a patch? Do you realize different patches bring different level of player spikes?

So to finalize, yes the numbers do lie because numbers without context are meaningless. Are you not aware of the concept of misrepresenting statistics?

We also lack the numbers to know what is a "normal" player average. We all know Shadowbringers massively inflated player count, so are we doing the capitalist shtick of ALWAYS GOING UUUUP?