Quote Originally Posted by Kohashi View Post
Judging by Google trends I would say the population decline, which is normal, shows nothing meaningful and it's only a buzzword to bait engagement/clicks.

The interest for FF14 has been steady for the past 90 days.

https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...F064ln09&hl=en

And roughly the same in the past year: https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...F064ln09&hl=en

Except for the spike when the new expansion launched, which was also to be expected.
That's the biggest reach I've ever seen to try and make this game look like its in a decent state population wise while in fact the population is literally going down in the biggest manner it ever has.