According to foreign media The Gamer, the active users of "Final Fantasy 14" may drop to less than 1 million.

Foreign media pointed out that after "Final Fantasy 14" tried to make some improvements in version 7.1, many people are still disappointed with the plot, and now many players complain that "there is nothing to do" in the game.

In this regard, Grummz believes that the "woke" introduced by "Final Fantasy 14" has caused a sharp decline in the number of players.But some players also believe that this is not just a factor of awakening.One player said: "The picture below reflects the decline in game quality. In the past, crowd scenes like this were unimaginable, NPCs were unique and interesting, meaning they were living people. But now, they just put the sameFour NPCs are copied and pasted in a row and hope we don't notice it."

A Japanese blog site called Lucky Bancho tracks the number of players in various expansion packs and patches of Final Fantasy 14, which revealed that Xiguang Travel actually lost a large number of players between versions 7.0 and 7.1., while the number of players in other expansion packages is actually growing.

According to Lucky Bancho, there were more than 1.4 million active players when Xiguang Travel was released, while there were only 1.1 million active players when version 7.1 was released.In contrast, "Shadow's Anti-Flame" and "Xiaoyue's End" had 943,000 and 1.3 million players respectively when the respective expansion packages were released, and then rose to 1.2 million and 1.7 million respectively after the release of versions 5.1 and 6.1..

Lucky Banch pointed out that after the release of version 7.1, the player loss was still quite fast, with the number of active players falling from 1.15 million to about 1.03 million.According to current trends, Final Fantasy 14 seems to be about to fall below 1 million active players, which will be the first time in a quite some time, and considering that Final Fantasy 14 is the game that supports the entire company, this should cause Square EnixBe alert.

Of course, the decline in player numbers after a large expansion package was released was expected, but the data on "Xiguang Travel" is somewhat worrying.Most of the content released after "Xiguang Travel" is to cater to high-end dungeon players, and there is little to provide casual players with content that can kill time, which is undoubtedly a step further.Things should change once the relics brushing, field action and a new deep maze are finally released, but for now, Final Fantasy 14 has not fully attracted players to stay.