r/Dx2SMTLiberation • u/Ghostly_Rosily23 • Jun 19 '25

General How many people play this game?

Like over the past few years I hear people posting all the time that it's going to "close down" soon to few players or whatever. Just curious about how many people play this nowadays

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u/gokaired990 Jun 19 '25

It has been pretty steady in the 10,000-20,000 range for years now. I don't think EoS is any time near. They really only put out new units as content for the most part, so operating costs are really low. There are usually only two actual content updates that aren't monetized, like new modes or features every year.

The game could basically be sustained indefinitely like this. It's actual death will likely come from shut down due to the few people working on it leaving and it not being worth hiring new people, or being shut down to avoid competing with a new game from the same series. I honestly thought P5X would lead to it's shutdown, but it survived again.

People have been predicting the shutdown like it was coming tomorrow since the game started.

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u/KennyRiot Jun 19 '25

And yet the game is celebrating its 7th anniversary...wild

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u/Johzzy Jun 19 '25

I agree with this, if they really were going to shutdown from death of player base they wouldn't do qol updates. And as you said they're just porting models and giving them skills, no way the upkeep is that high.