>>712761736
The thing about people claiming Dawntrail is Stormblood, they're grasping hard at straws because they don't want to admit the game is in massive decline due to how much Dawntrail sucked the fat one.

Stormblood base expansion didn't grow the population of the game, but it didn't tank it either the numbers were flat and then began to rise through post patches.

Dawntrail has tanked from 7.0 at a character count of 1.4million to now 950,000 characters per lucky bancho and Player Scope scraping has the numbers even lower, with each each the numbers of people quitting has only increased.
Dawntrail per each patch is not growing the player base, it's not stable and holding the player base at a flat number, each patch has seen a decline which was not seen in Stormblood.

Plus, let's be brutally honest here Dawntrail has nuked 5-6 years worth of the player base, of reputation, of growth.
Stormblood did not do that even remotely.

Numbers do not lie, but the people who are defending Dawntrail do.