Server Population

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if you have a fast enough server you could parse lodestone to find out how many characters they are, tho SE might not be too happy lol And it would take like a month. (Or fast enough home ISP, would need 100mbs or more)

All I do know is up until about 2 weeks ago, all players had a 7 digit ID number, this ment the game could hold a maximum of 10 million characters, but now all new characters have a 8 digit number which provides 100million combinations, but this number is no incremental per character as there are millions of blank 7 digits and thousands of empty 8 digits. I made a new character recently and it was around 10256740 and there is just no way there has been 256k new characters made, so if you could work out how this is done you could probably work out how many characters there are without parsing and just using Math.

ffxivpro.com has about 230k verified characters. But how many of those are now deleted or not playing is unknown.