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

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You aren’t looking at their subscription income exclusively though

You are looking at a year when an expansion came out that everyone everyone agrees sold well and then trying to use the increased sales from an expansion launch year over a non expansion launch year to argue that indicates that sub numbers are higher

So, how about we revisit this during, say, the September financial report period for FY2026 (1 April-30 September 2025). That's two quarters, complete with numbers over the 7.2 and 7.3 patch releases that will not be due to increased sales in a non-expansion-launch year?