January 9, 2016 Active player census (and savage clear rates)

[RiceisNice]

Taken from reddit

Active players by server

Overall Active players based on MSQ progression

Players possessing gobwalker mount



A new criteria for active players is possessing a chocobo mount in order to remove bots.

That <200k finish on 3.1's story though.

[Colorful]

Those Savage clear rates are incredibly low, it's no wonder they're nerfing Savage to Coil difficulty. I'm surprised so few people reach max level too, only 5,000 level 60s give or take on popular servers.

[ChalupaBatman]

Well i know I for one have not done the 3.1 story, but play more hours than i would like to admit

[Zojha]

Well i know I for one have not done the 3.1 story, but play more hours than i would like to admit

Heh, same. Read a few spoilers, went "meh" and didn't bother. Nobody stays dead these days...

[Alahra]

Anyone have a link to similar previous data (say for the 3.0 MSQ) before 3.1 came out? I'm curious about comparing them. That 200k is rather low, but not particularly surprising given the game's current state.

[Reinha]

Anyone have a link to similar previous data (say for the 3.0 MSQ) before 3.1 came out? I'm curious about comparing them. That 200k is rather low, but not particularly surprising given the game's current state.

"With LB's criteria, there are approximately 770k active players, with around 200k have finished 3.1 storyline" The game is quite heavy on the leveling side according to those numbers.

The second most recent census which I found (8 months ago) had a very similar number of active players:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_730k_active/

"733,267 have met the above criterion" (actively playing)

It seems like the game has a stable amount of active players if you look at all levels, slowly rising in fact.

For 3.0, the only thing I could find was this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ff1bcf34c5ae

251,718 had completed AN1 in September. Not sure if this matches the criteria of an active player on the unofficial census though. If it does, it means that 50k or 20% of active max level players have become inactive while the total number of active players is roughly the same as before. Newbies seem to replace the capped player losses.

[Iromi]

So still can't retain players it seems? I dunno, 200k is very low imho.

[Alahra]

"733,267 have met the above criterion" (actively playing)

Thanks! That's what I was curious about. It seems the game is actually staying somewhat stable. That survey from April was during the relatively content-lite period prior to the release of HW, which adds some context to the current numbers as well, since HW has also had a bit of a content drought so far.

Newbies seem to replace the capped player losses.

Part of me suspected this was happening to a degree based on the steady trickle of newer players I'm seeing on my server, but I couldn't really verify it.

That ~200k that had finished A1 in September also roughly tracks to the ~200k that have finished the 3.1 MSQ. I'd imagine there's significant overlap in the two—those interested in finishing the story are also most likely to engage with newer content, I would think.

So while the game doesn't seem to have any major subscription bleed, it's likely that it saw a population influx at the beginning of HW, and then settled back down to its pre-HW numbers, probably due to lack of content/burnout.

[Reinha]

Part of me suspected this was happening to a degree based on the steady trickle of newer players I'm seeing on my server, but I couldn't really verify it.

That ~200k that had finished A1 in September also roughly tracks to the ~200k that have finished the 3.1 MSQ. I'd imagine there's significant overlap in the two—those interested in finishing the story are also most likely to engage with newer content, I would think.

So while the game doesn't seem to have any major subscription bleed, it's likely that it saw a population influx at the beginning of HW, and then settled back down to its pre-HW numbers, probably due to lack of content/burnout.

I agree with you on all points. There's a steady trickle of new players in my fc as well, and at the same time a few older players have unsubbed for reasons unknown to me. The fc seems about as active as before Heavensward but with some new faces in the mix. Not entirely sure how the raiding is going compared to before but it's probably in line with the overall clear rates of Alex savage compared to coil.

[AskaRay]

Wow there's a lot more active people on Lich than I thought... huh