Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
Hell, as I typed this out I was just sitting in an expert roulette queue. 8pm on a saturday night, 10 minutes and counting. I've been the #1 role waiting list number for like 7 minutes lmao. But yeah! I'm sure allllllll the people who love the game are totally just online and playing it, right?
The stats disagree with your anecdote, FYI. You can check SteamCharts to get a rough idea of player retention trends, and Dawntrail's retention levels are comparable to Endwalker's, Shadowbringers' and Stormblood's, at approx. -32%, -32%, -28% and -30% respective player drop off in the first player-count decreasing period after expansion release.

Except the difference now is that we have a substantially larger starting playerbase than we did years ago, so you're actually logging in with more players today than you ever did prior to Endwalker's launch, outside of expansion release dates.

Of course, SteamCharts only tracks players who play through Steam, but that player count is representative of the playerbase as a whole.