Quote Originally Posted by Torashiki View Post
Another post with the same doomers that I have seen for years claiming the same things that are either opinions taken out of proportion by streamers or just flat out not right.

''The story is bad!'' about Stormblood.
''There is no content'' about X.1 patches.
''People are leaving'' about pre-patch lulls.

Some people need to stop pretending to be martyr prophets.
Objectively not true.

https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/58883226.html

Every expansion saw growth between x.0 and pre-x.1 censuses.

SB 663k -> 830k
ShB 943k -> 1.2m
EW 1.3m -> 1.7m
DT 1.4m -> 1.1m

In terms of player retention (x.0 peak numbers vs x.1 peak numbers), every patch saw about 45% of initial playerbase returning to x.1 patch, but in case of DT, only 39% returned for 6.1.

|| || |pre x.1| post x.1|Result|
|DT |-290k | -147k |-437k|
|EW|+354k| -369k |-14k|
|ShB |+242k| -221k |+20k|
|SB|+167k| -5k |+162k|

It is likely FFXIV will fall under 1 million active players soon, going under pre-Shadowbringers level.

Comparison data from WaltzForLilly
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ayer_drop_off/