Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Comparison of populations for December going back to 2014:

Comparisons of populations for each X.15 patch going back to 2014:


My reason for making these is to give a sense of if it has fluctuated this much at comparable months or patches.

There are some obvious possible reasons it spiked so high before and returned to how it was: Covid, and the game going viral. Sure, people are quick to blame the content and issues they have, but objectively those were factors that caused spikes around that time.
Can we please stop pretending that people are playing less videogames since COVID.

CSGO/CS2


WoW


Other games aren't struggling with declining player numbers since COVID. This is a FFXIV problem and the problem is the game.