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

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Are you actually trying to argue that Steam players are more likely to stop playing the game based on the fact that they bought the game on Steam?

I'd suppose the drop to be more because Steam players can only play one game at a time through the Steam interface, and a lot of interesting single-player games came out over the last six months.