Persona 5: The Phantom Xhas had a rocky start to life in the West, as despite being touted as a great game for its gameplay,comical villains, and, unsurprisingly, amazing music, the past week or so has seen fan perception towards the game shift dramatically.
That’s mostly down to the game’s treatment of global players, as while it was announced the game’s release schedule would be quickened to try and catch us all up to the game’s Chinese servers, the rewards and currency dished out weren’t increased. In fact, global players were getting less than the game’s Asian servers, and many felt like the players on the global servers were being “treated like trash”.
Persona 5: The Phantom X Player Counts Has Dropped By Nearly 80 Percent
That discontent now appears to be reflected in the game’s player numbers, as Persona 5: The Phantom X has seen a very sharp decline. Despite having only launched less than a month ago, the game’s player count has dropped by almost 80 percent, with a grand total of 8,433 playing at the time of writing.
It’s also worth noting that this number has been logged right after an update, meaning the number is slightly inflated. Before the update, Persona 5: The Phantom X was struggling to get above 10k players, with dips as low as 4,706 at certain points, compared to the lofty heights of the game’s all-time peak of 41,622. It’s not looking great for a game that thrives on gacha.
In fact, Persona 5: The Phantom X is currently in danger of losing its spot as the current highest-played Persona game on Steam at the moment.Persona 5 Royal has been hitting a daily peak of above 10,000ever since the end of June, possibly spurred on by the initial hype surrounding The Phantom X’s launch.
If The Phantom X’s latest update doesn’t right the ship again and its numbers continue to fall like they have been over the past month,especially with competitors like Umamusume: Pretty Derby doing well, then fans may have been right to be worried about EOS coming sooner rather than expected.
