Racial distribution, July 2021 (Luckybancho)

[Takamorisan]

Eyebrows are overrated.

[Hunky]

What stuck out to me is that Lalafells are super popular in Japan. Female Lalafell outnumber Viera, which is the opposite in NA servers.

I would say that, for the most part, the statistics line up pretty evenly for all servers. The biggest difference is the popularity of Lalafell in Japan as opposed to NA and EU.

[Justuas]

Also, while this info isn't related to racial distribution, I think it's worth mentioning that in July the size of active playerbase reached 1.207.441 (against 951.467 in April).

I thought there were over 22 million adventurers.

[Halivel]

I thought there were over 22 million adventurers.

22 million is the total amount of registered accounts, including all the people who stopped playing or were permanently banned for whatever reason. Also, the total amount of actively playing people is a bit higher (though obviously not by millions) than what is counted in report, because there are some restrictions, like the need to be of certain level to be counted, for instance.

[Lauront]

It helps that Midlanders look good and have customisation options to help create more variety. I don't think that can be discounted. They also encounter fewer problems like horns or tails etc clipping. Even male Viera will have issues, like the strangeness of their pose, which can put some players off.

To be fair, I only chose lalafell because it's the closest you could get to a playable moogle race if you use the moogle head. It's also why I'm hoping eventually we get an Ivalician Moogle player race, so I can ditch using lalafell for good.

If they add a small race in the future, I'm hoping that's the one they add.

[ICountFrom0]

seems odd to use "changes in minions/mounts" as a test for activity with the recient changes letting you detect "completed quests" instead.

[Vipes]

seems odd to use "changes in minions/mounts" as a test for activity with the recient changes letting you detect "completed quests" instead.

I’m guessing because bots can complete quests?

[Halivel]

seems odd to use "changes in minions/mounts" as a test for activity with the recient changes letting you detect "completed quests" instead.

You can't see other people's finished quests, while minions and mounts is an always public info that cannot be hidden even by privacy settings (unlike, let's say, achievements).

Quest completion can now be confirmed via the Character Profile page of the Lodestone.
The Character Profile page will now list completed quests, including their date of completion.
* Quest history for all characters, including date of completion, will be saved to the Lodestone beginning with the release of Patch 5.5.
* Information under "My Quests" cannot be seen by other users.

Do you know the specific date range or is it July 1st till now? I do not read Japanese. Just wonder because Yoshia did specify in the last 2 weeks to be the major spike.

The data was aquired at July 13th. Previous survey was posted at April, 11th. Keep in mind that Lucky Bancho doesn't count characters with level lower than 61 as active, so all players that started playing in last two weeks and/or are playing with Free Trial aren't included in his statistics. As such, the real amount of actively playing people is higher that 1.2 million, but they aren't counted due to not meeting requirements.

[Big_Bap]

The data was aquired at July 13th. Previous survey was posted at April, 11th. Keep in mind that Lucky Bancho doesn't count characters with level lower than 61 as active, so all players that started playing in last two weeks and/or are playing with Free Trial aren't included in his statistics. As such, the real amount of actively playing people is higher that 1.2 million, but they aren't counted due to not meeting requirements.

You cannot fetch all the information on the lodestone in a single day unless you either have access to one of the databases it uses or have thousands of dollars to throw at this every single month.

As far as I know, they have never delved into the technicalities/limitations/bugs that come with scraping data off the Lodestone, which is very problematic when you're sharing data with other people. Their numbers are definitely inaccurate, but they are probably reliable (good faith).



Here's one Lodestone bug for example:




https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...&house=&order=
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4398528082169/

Look at the member count in both pictures if you haven't noticed...

[Halivel]

You cannot fetch all the information on the lodestone in a single day unless you either have access to one of the databases it uses or have thousands of dollars to throw at this every single month.

As far as I know, they have never delved into the technicalities/limitations/bugs that come with scraping data off the Lodestone, which is very problematic when you're sharing data with other people. Their numbers are definitely inaccurate, but they are probably reliable (good faith).



Here's one Lodestone bug for example:




https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...&house=&order=
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4398528082169/

Look at the member count in both pictures if you haven't noticed...

To be fair:
- Lucky Bancho doesn't post his reports monthly. He does it once per 3 months.
- We don't know how exactly he fetchs this data, so we can't say if he does it in a single day or not.
- It takes several days to form report itself (data was aquaired at July 13th, but report was posted at 18th), so by the moment report is public it's already a little bit outdated.

That said, I think there're no ways to get 100% correct data anyway - the only people who has it are SE themselves. Reporters like Lucky Bancho just provide us some general data that helps to understand the direction in which the game goes with some trends in content and other things. So yeah, it's an estimate with some errors to it (or innacurate bur reliable in a good faith, as you called it).