We got ourselves a new Lucky Bancho census post today, just in time for Stormblood. Overall, the game has seen an increase of 21,000 active players since March! By this census info, we're getting close to hitting 600,000k active characters again!
Of note: The census this time has a focus on population growth and decline since the server locks were put into place.
Cactuar has the fastest growing NA server community having gained 980 new characters since March. This is a concern for Cactuar since they has put them over the 12,000 active population hump. Notable NA realms also in that range: Behemoth, Hyperion and Bahamut(locked).
Mateus is the second fastest growing NA server community at 4,423 active characters. They have gained 727 new characters since March, or about 16% of it's entire population. It is no longer the smallest server in the game, wooo! Just the smallest server in the NA/EU regions.
Mateus also saw much higher growth than similar small servers in the NA region. Compared to Goblin, Mateus grew by twice as many characters. And compared to Zalera Mateus grew by three times! Goblin and Zalera remain larger than Mateus however.
Faerie is also doing particularly well, hitting 11,513 characters after gaining 556 new active characters. They are approaching that 12,000 active character hump so it'll be interesting how the server does as we hit SB release and beyond.
Balmung on the other hand is shrinking, so the lock out is working. So far, Balmung has lost 507 active players, bringing their active character count to 25,925. Still by far the largest server in the game yet Gilgamesh lost more characters at 702 in the same time frame.
What do we get from this? That the server lockout is working in that smaller servers are getting more attention while larger servers are slowly bleeding players. The server bleed will likely become much more noticeable once server transfers are activated. Also, Mateus' server growth is far higher than servers in a similar situation likely due to the attention it's gotten as the alternative RP server.
Edit: Important note about this data, characters under level 36 are not counted for this census. This means that small alts and the like to check out Mateus are not counted. What we're seeing is actual server growth.
Of note: The census this time has a focus on population growth and decline since the server locks were put into place.
Cactuar has the fastest growing NA server community having gained 980 new characters since March. This is a concern for Cactuar since they has put them over the 12,000 active population hump. Notable NA realms also in that range: Behemoth, Hyperion and Bahamut(locked).
Mateus is the second fastest growing NA server community at 4,423 active characters. They have gained 727 new characters since March, or about 16% of it's entire population. It is no longer the smallest server in the game, wooo! Just the smallest server in the NA/EU regions.
Mateus also saw much higher growth than similar small servers in the NA region. Compared to Goblin, Mateus grew by twice as many characters. And compared to Zalera Mateus grew by three times! Goblin and Zalera remain larger than Mateus however.
Faerie is also doing particularly well, hitting 11,513 characters after gaining 556 new active characters. They are approaching that 12,000 active character hump so it'll be interesting how the server does as we hit SB release and beyond.
Balmung on the other hand is shrinking, so the lock out is working. So far, Balmung has lost 507 active players, bringing their active character count to 25,925. Still by far the largest server in the game yet Gilgamesh lost more characters at 702 in the same time frame.
What do we get from this? That the server lockout is working in that smaller servers are getting more attention while larger servers are slowly bleeding players. The server bleed will likely become much more noticeable once server transfers are activated. Also, Mateus' server growth is far higher than servers in a similar situation likely due to the attention it's gotten as the alternative RP server.
Edit: Important note about this data, characters under level 36 are not counted for this census. This means that small alts and the like to check out Mateus are not counted. What we're seeing is actual server growth.
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