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

[Hallarem]

We literally have 10 million players, the best MMO in the world. Will never die with such an innovative and ahead of its curve dev team

[ZXN]

Obviously the numbers always drop between patches, this is really nothing new in the entire history of most MMOs. However it still doesn't change the fact that in just about 8 months; Dawntrail's average players on Steam have dropped by almost 65%. Even if that is just a "small drop in the ocean" to the actual amount of total players, it doesn't make the number completely irrelevant. Same with the Lucky Bancho numbers. Sure they're just assumptions and whatnot with what data they could collect, but 30% less is still a decent amount and we're not even at 7.2 yet, and if that doesn't deliver in a way that people are happy about then the numbers are just going to keep decreasing after we see the initial spike that happens every new patch.