The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Noox-115]

Well its true that the people population keep going down since DT its incredibly low compared to EW its Below 200K player

When DT released it was about 400K active player

And between Last January and Mars about 1 Million

https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv

maybe the data is no exact but honestly I see it in game I play tank and sometimes i was like 15min - 20 min for a trial which never happened to me

[Kohashi]

Well its true that the people population keep going down since DT its incredibly low compared to EW its Below 200K player

When DT released it was about 400K active player

And between Last January and Mars about 1 Million

https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv

maybe the data is no exact but honestly I see it in game I play tank and sometimes i was like 15min - 20 min for a trial which never happened to me

I am not sure how those people count the players however if you look at Steam charts you can also see a similar trend and more reliable

https://steamcharts.com/app/39210

Average player:
Oct 2024: 17,479.5
Oct 2023: 21,236.9
Oct 2022: 22,479.1
OCT 2021: 26,731.4
OCT: 2020: 15,069.6

I honestly don't think the variation is that big, the player count seems pretty stable at least with the people playing on Steam.

For the past 5 years or so, the average ppl playing on Steam are around 20k.

[sintea]

Well its true that the people population keep going down since DT its incredibly low compared to EW its Below 200K player

When DT released it was about 400K active player

And between Last January and Mars about 1 Million

https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv

maybe the data is no exact but honestly I see it in game I play tank and sometimes i was like 15min - 20 min for a trial which never happened to me

I would not trust this website based on what they say their main way of acquiring this information is in their about page, I recall in earlier versions too of this webpage they more openly admitted to this method of gauging playerbases for games right by the popularity/playercount lists, but now have it hidden in that About section.

[Greyhawk]

I would not trust this website based on what they say their main way of acquiring this information is in their about page, I recall in earlier versions too of this webpage they more openly admitted to this method of gauging playerbases for games right by the popularity/playercount lists, but now have it hidden in that About section.

Not to mention, from their about page:

History

This is more a fun project than anything else. It should be obvious to anyone the reasons why this is not an accurate subscriber count for MMOs. What it is though, is an interesting (to me and maybe others) tracker of popularity based on reddit users.

This goes right back to what I said in the beginning, we as players have no reliable way to track numbers of players ourselves. We get what we get from SE. All that number will do is go up, regardless of:

- Bot accounts
- Terminated accounts
- People who left
- The list goes on...

They will boast the numbers because they look good to share holders, player-base be damned. I'm not sure why players players still judge game health on made up statistics by third-party sites that can only pull a portion of data, not even from a correct source, and call it 'evidence'.