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

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Maybe you'll fool amateurs but while 75% is an exaggeration and is more about player activity as it measures concurrency, your method basically rests on a correction factor that assumes every single movement between two samples all boil down to the privacy settings change, which is completely absurd and a nonsensical assumption.