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

[Chasingstars]

The last month in which the player count was below 17100 was January 2021, which was Patch 5.45.

Chicken little, the sky isn't falling. Using steam charts might help with potentially checking a trend, but it's really always been a small fraction of the playerbase. Like lets say there is 500,000 active users right now, which factors in the steam chart numbers. That is 5.2238% of the playerbase. This is only made more evident it is a small fraction of the playerbase when the game was riding higher at it's peak and had more players than WoW for awhile. As the all time peak on steam charts for FFXIV is just 95,102 across a full 10 years. Lets say we had 2 million players across all platforms when it was beating out WoW, well 95,102 is 4.7551% of the playerbase.

[Clockworks]

Chicken little, the sky isn't falling. Using steam charts might help with potentially checking a trend, but it's really always been a small fraction of the playerbase. Like lets say there is 500,000 active users right now, which factors in the steam chart numbers. That is 5.2238% of the playerbase. This is only made more evident it is a small fraction of the playerbase when the game was riding higher at it's peak and had more players than WoW for awhile. As the all time peak on steam charts for FFXIV is just 95,102 across a full 10 years. Lets say we had 2 million players across all platforms when it was beating out WoW, well 95,102 is 4.7551% of the playerbase.

Just tell us you dont know how statistics and samples work.

I completely agree. except that SE tries to cater to everyone.. and really pleases no one... well, except for the corporate koolaid drinkers

Pretty much yeah.