Is FiveM shrinking? Total players moved 3.1% between these two rounds — essentially not at all. But inside that total the picture changes: of 33 markets, 13 grew and 20 fell. This is not a market disappearing, it is a market redistributing.
A flat total, a moving interior
Both rounds were taken on the same weekday at the same hour, so the difference cannot be the clock or the day. Across the compared set, growing markets added 8,288 players and falling ones lost 13,108. The net result is a decrease of 4,820.
The magnitudes matter: a fall of 13,108 hides a rise of 8,288. A measurement that only reads the total would say "the market is flat" and miss everything happening inside it.
The five fastest-growing markets
Market
Players (A)
Players (B)
Change
ro-RO
3,926
6,025
+53.5%
fi-FI
660
849
+28.6%
el-GR
918
1,084
+18.1%
en-US
9,679
10,667
+10.2%
pt-BR
12,630
13,887
+10.0%
Player change between the matched rounds
ro-RO leads at 53.5%, but note that its server count barely moved (386 → 389). The same servers carried more players: no servers were added to this market, players arrived.
The five sharpest declines
Market
Players (A)
Players (B)
Change
vi-VN
897
522
-41.8%
pt-PT
3,518
2,081
-40.8%
en-MY
2,345
1,527
-34.9%
tr-TR
6,219
4,222
-32.1%
hu-HU
1,657
1,159
-30.1%
Player change between the matched rounds
In most of the declines the server count is flat too. That forces a distinction between two different things: servers closing, and players going elsewhere. The data shows the second.
Live player counts by region: see for yourself which market is actually growing. Open the server directory
This piece shows five markets; the dataset carries all 33 with their player and server counts, as JSON and CSV. Download all 33 markets