Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
Per Steam Charts and Lucky Bancho, the game’s population is back to December 2020 numbers, that’s a 5 year low. What is really wild is that these numbers include a lengthy free login campaign.

We went from 42,181 to 14,250 since the release of DT, yes we lost 67% of the players to date.
Again, despite what doomers want to believe, this is actually pretty normal at this point in an expansion. The high mark you noted was July 2024 compared to the low mark being one year later July 2025.

Compare to EW. Endwalker's high was 53,729 in its release month of December 2021. Exactly one year later in December 2022 it hit a low point of 18,445. The drop? Yep - 66%.

Or how about ShB, widely praised as the "best" expansion. Its release month of July 2019 was 23,105. Just 5 months later (December 2019), it was down to 9,693. The drop? 58%. We can only speculate how much farther the low would have been at the one-year mark, because by July 2020 covid was in full swing and the population was up because everyone was stuck at home.

Again - what we're experiencing is nothing out of the ordinary. We lost 2/3 of the players by this point in EW, and might have even lost more in the "best expansion ever" ShB at the same point if it hadn't been for covid.