FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Rithy255]

I'm not going to deny that theirs been a decline in player numbers. Theirs been a pretty big one for good reason, it's certainly not as bad as this post tries to make it out though

But It's not really fair to compare peak numbers at expansion launches (or when SHB had lots of players come in), to current where theirs actually nothing going on... which people tend to flow in when patches come out. saying we lost 75% of the player base is a exaggeration, considering lots of people only sub in for small amounts of time, this sort of comparison really does not work though, even if ff14 had a lot more to do we'd still see some people go off after a while as people get bored, burnout or want to play a different game, though I agree that theirs been a massive mishandling of the game.

I don't want to come across like I'm defending here as I disagree with a lot of the recent decisions such as job design, 4.5 months waiting time between patches, lack of content on release I do think a lot of poor decisions have caused players to not play at the moment.