Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Just for you all, I made a chart of FFXIV's growth and/or decline between 2014-2024.


Data Used:
- Yellow graph is hard to read so I'll ignore it.

- The other three data sources show a trend of growth until early 2022, after which the game began its first decline. Summer 2024 shows another peak, but on all 3 colors that peak never reaches as high as it was in 2022. Both peaks are also followed by the biggest falloffs in the game's history, when it comes to login numbers (blue).

- Current player activity level seems to be around the same as in autumn 2023.

- In the Lucky Bancho data the number of active characters (red) seems to correlate with the number of invested players (green) even if the number of invested players remains more steady. The more active characters there are, the more invested players there are, and the same applies inversely.

- However, the amount of Steam logins (blue) has seen relative growth compared to Lucky Bancho data since around 2018. It seems that nowadays more people login to the game without making any changes to their character or progression. At first I thought it might be people logging in just to keep their house, but auto demolition was implemented in 2015. Perhaps things like role playing and new game plus have increased the amount of people who log in but do not partake in game content in a way that would be tracked as activity/changes in the Lodestone (Lucky Bancho data source).

- It is hard to make future predictions because the data shows that previous post-launch declines have turned into growth (2020) or kept declining (2022-2023).