It's the amount of accounts collected, a fake news figure but eh. And on the contrary I believe online gaming has seen a surge with the virus since it's safer to stay home. Doubt it affects bots much though, since they're not people so they'll run regardless.
Tomes always work the same way, whenever a new raid tier is released(like 5.2), the limited tome becomes unlimited and they add a new limited tome. The current unlimited tome becomes hunt seals stuff instead(nuts this expansion, centurio before).
Stormblood's relic was the primary purpose(which now is purely cosmetic) and then all the side stuff like mounts, emotes, haircuts, pets and so on yeah. Also some kinda interesting story that's tied to the main story somewhat(centered around Krile). And overall a pretty interesting twist to the gameplay with shit hard trash mobs aggroing you and taking forever to leash, every fight being tough promoting groups, zone wide bosses, FATE train, xp penalty on death, no mount until you "cleared" the area so mostly old school running around in a dangerous place to get to where you want to go. It was kind of a callback to old school mmos like XI, although still much easier and much more accessible. Oh and Baldesion Arsenal, a 56man raid.
Yeah I meant more back then there were a lot of ideas like that, now they nerfed it down to a much more accessible place since a lot less people go there, you can solo decently too with echo and you don't really risk much by running around, since you can mount and the aetheryte unlock earlier and all that. Just back then it was kinda interesting because it used old mmo formulas with lots more risk than usual and stuff.
