FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Auro_Seldaris]

... but really what difference does it make if there are 1 million or 2 million or 500,000 people playing the game? Does that make the game more fun for your personally...

No, but generally, the more fun a game is, the more people want to come and play it. Which was part of the reason behind the "WoW exodus" to FFXIV in the first place.

Why some people still think that a sample size of about 95k on Steam (all-time peak, there are more owners of the game which are to account for) cannot represent the general health of the game and player sentiment is still kind of beyond me.

Yes, most players don't use Steam, but there is no reason to believe that those who are not on Steam feel any different about XIV than those who are.

I am just as baffled. Clearly these people haven't taken many statistics classes. A sample size of roughly 1000 random people is enough to be considered a reasonable sample size in most situations. I'm not sure why they believe 95,000 doesn't.