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EchoBaz posted...

Oh wow, the servers are so insanely packed that I figured that it really did have as many as that. Did they stop new people from joining as a marketing gimmick?

No. It's as I said. Packed servers with limited queues means maybe half a mil are online in your regional data center. Of those, there are RMTs and their gil-farming bots, congesting servers and inflating numbers; sure SE puts them down publicly, but they keep coming as if they were never gone. The 25 million number is closer to copies sold, which also does not count for players who have quit, who are taking breaks, or are under suspension for something stupid like third party tools or Performing a song from outside of the game in front of the wrong people. Also, dual-boxers are a thing.

Lucky Bancho puts out numbers from time to time. Active players beyond a certain high level on at least one job, who might account for 2/5 of active players, who in turn account for less than the total number of active subs, are counted. Even in hayday Endwalker, Lucky Bancho's numbers didn't reach five million, if I remember right? Doing the roughest of math, you're looking at a ballpark of 10 million accounts or less in early EW, which doesn't sound right, and the population has definitely calmed down since then. A lot of people are definitely walking away from the game, unhappy with a number of factors.

25 million active players is impossible.