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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Player Survey Results

August 4, 2022

Famitsu conducted a survey on the players of Fate/Grand Order to commemorate the game’s seventh anniversary, and published the results in the 18-25 August 2022 issue of the magazine.

Also see: Fate/Grand Order 6th Anniversary Player Survey Results

The surveyees

The survey was conducted from 30 June to 6 July 2022 and answered by 6395 people, consisting of 2368 male and 3733 female users (294 answered “other”). 40.7% of surveyees were in their 20s while 31.5% were in their 30s, 15.9% were 10-19, 10.7% were in their 40s, and 1.2% were above 50. Not all surveyees answered all questions.

6.8% of surveyees had master levels under 120, 17.4% were at 121-140, 28.1% were at 141-150, 28.3% were at 151-159, and 18.4% were at 160.

45.3% of players chose a male master, while 54.7% chose a female master.

When players first started playing the game:

Pre-registration: 15.1%
Within 2015: 9.5%
Within 2016: 11.3%
Within 2017: 22.8%
Within 2018: 13.2%
Within 2019: 10.3%
Within 2020: 10.1%
Within 2021: 6.2%
Within 2022: 1.5%

Top reasons for why players started playing the game:

Because they are fans of the Fate series: 2153 (33.67%)
Because it was recommended to them: 1418 (22.17%)
Because it is popular: 799 (12.49%)
Because they were interested in the characters: 733 (11.46%)
Because of the commercials: 255 (3.98%)

Players were also asked what Fate-related work was their first, and the top ten answers were:

1: Fate/Grand Order: 1802
2: Fate/Zero (anime): 1034
3: Fate/stay night (anime): 789
4: Fate/stay night (PC): 646
5: Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works (TV anime): 478
6: Fate/stay night [Realta Nua] (PS2): 142
7: Fate/EXTRA: 103
8: Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (TV anime): 84
9: Fate/Apocrypha (TV anime): 80
10: Fate/Zero (novel): 79

The ten most popular main story chapters are:

1: Part 2 Lostbelt 6 Avalon le Fae: 2245
2: Part 2 Lostbelt 5 Atlantis: 854
3: Part 1 singularity 7 Babylonia: 610
4: Part 1 singularity 6 Camelot: 346
5: Part 1 final singularity Solomon: 282
6: Part 2 Chapter 5.5 Heiankyo: 274
7: Part 1.5 singularity 1 Shinjuku: 270
8: Part 2 Chapter 6.5 Traum: 193
9: Part 2 Lostbelt 5 Olympus: 189
10: Part 1.5 singularity 3 Shimousa: 187

The ten most popular events are:

1: SE.RA.PH: 767
2: GudaGuda 6! The Mystery of the Missing Nobu Head: 696
3: Servant Summer Festival: 517
4: Servant Summer Camp – Chaldea Thriller Night: 391
5: Gudaguda Yamatai-koku 2020: 505
6: The Aeaean Spring Breeze: 221
7: 15-nin no Richiteki na Megane-tachi: 219
8: Suikai Crisis – Mukunaru Mono-tachi no Ukishima: 198
9: Imaginary Scramble – Nautilus Fujouseyo: 194
10: Lady Reines’s Case Files Revival -Plus Episode-: 181

The chapters that players would most like to see as an anime next are:

1: Part 2 Lostbelt 6 Avalon le Fae: 1886
2: Part 1.5 singularity 3 Shimousa: 899
3: Part 1.5 singularity 1 Shinjuku: 750
4: Part 2 Lostbelt 5 Atlantis: 727
5: Part 2 Chapter 5.5 Heiankyo: 382
6: Part 2 Lostbelt 5 Olympus: 352
7: Part 2 Lostbelt 1 Anastasia: 283
8: Part 2 Lostbelt 4 Yuga Kshetra: 137
9: Part 2 Chapter 6.5 Traum: 123
10: Part 2 Prologue: 113

The top ten servants that players want are:

Oberon: 428
Muramasa: 272
Morgan: 265
Ashiya Doman: 218
Van Gogh: 147
Charlemagne: 133
Moriarty (Ruler): 125
Melusine: 109
Merlin: 107
Minamoto-no-Tametomo: 102

The ten most popular noble phantasm animations are for:

1: Muramasa: 355
2: Charlemagne: 308)
3: Artoria Pendragon (Saber): 222
4: Ashiya Doman: 215
5: Abigail Williams (Foreigner): 198
6: Oberon: 195
7: Morgan: 157
8: Melusine: 139
9: Katsushika Hokusai (Foreigner): 128
9: Voyager: 128

The most popular NPCs are:

Takasugi Shinsaku (941)
Xu Fu (533)
Goredolf (462)
Takechi Zuizan (238)
Romani (222)

The top ten Type Moon characters players would like to see implemented in Fate/Grand Order are:

1: Arcueid Brunestud: 443
2: Gilgamesh (Prototype): 146
3: Ciel: 131
4: Aozaki Touko: 118
5: Agravain: 90
6: Kotomine Kirei: 85
7: Matou Shinji: 83
8: Archimedes: 81
9: Merlin (Prototype): 70
10: True Archer: 59

The top three Servants players want rank up quests for are:

1: Geronimo: 506
2: Merlin: 369
3: Gilgamesh (Archer): 161

The top ten Servants players want new battle animations for are:

1: Jeanne d’Arc Alter (Avenger): 488
2: Mata Hari: 221
3: Ozymandias: 185
4: Cu Chulainn (Alter): 184
5: Amadeus: 157
6: Arthur Pendragon: 128
7: Anne Bonny & Mary Read (Rider): 105
8: David: 95
9: Jeanne d’Arc (Ruler): 94
10: Charles Henri Sanson: 84

Player predictions for the next servants to get swimsuits are:

1: Ereshkigal: 1235
2: Morgan: 675
3: Artoria Caster: 379
4: Medusa: 280
5: Van Gogh: 256
6: Passion Lip: 145
7: Ashiya Doman: 126
8: Baobhan Sith: 119
9: Yang Guifei: 106
10: Melusine: 99

Number of servants players have raised to bond level 15:

None: 74.3%
1: 16.6%
2: 4.4%
3: 2.1%
5: 0.8%
Other: 1.8%

Number of servants players have raised to level 120:

None: 70.1%
1: 22.8%
2: 5.7%
3: 1%
5: 0.1%
Other: 0.3%

Favorite Noble Phantasm card type

Buster: 52.4%
Arts: 37.8%
Quick: 9.8%

Top five enemies that players had most trouble with

Cernunnos: 2365
Demeter: 1328
Gawain: 220
Arjuna (Alter): 136
Zeus: 108

Top five servants that players would want to actually have as a partner to restore the human order with:

Mash: 545
Emiya (Archer): 209
Morgan: 169
Ashiya Doman: 147
Karna (Lancer): 143

Top ten servants that players found to be the best for grinding are:

1: Morgan: 1483
2: Artoria Caster: 885
3: Arjuna (Alter): 514
4: Ashiya Doman: 388
5: Miyamoto Musashi (Berserker): 165
5: Space Ishtar: 165
7: Arash: 161
8: Koyanskaya of Light: 149
9: Oberon: 142
10: Muramasa: 140

Top ten servants that players found to be the best for high difficulty quests are:

1: Artoria Caster: 1892
2: Heracles: 251
3: Merlin: 245
4: Himiko: 230
5: Van Gogh: 225
6: Morgan: 609
7: Shi Huang Di: 183
8: Arjuna (Alter): 172
9: Cu Chulainn (Alter): 119
10: Super Orion: 100

Top ten servants that players think to be the most handsome are:

Arthur Pendragon (Prototype): 506
Lanling Wang: 362
Ashiya Doman: 275
Charlemagne: 248
Sherlock Holmes: 239
Oberon: 220
Gawain: 187
Gilgamesh (Archer): 178
Merlin: 149
Artoria Pendragon (Saber): 121

Surveyees were asked what they want to see in the future in Fate/Grand Order and some of the comments were:

“The excitement and satisfaction of the main story is something that cannot be experienced elsewhere. I look forward to more of the story and cool servants.” (30s/F)
“I want them to subvert my expectations in a good way, to do something that nobody expects.” (20s/M)
“Collaborations with Mahoutsukai no Yoru and Tsukihime.” (30s/M)
“More low rarity servants.” (302/M)
“Demon Pillar plushies.” (30s/F)
“I want more opportunities to use servants I’ve raised like in tower and Grail Front events.” (30s/M)
“I want them to do something about the older servants in Valentine events. Newer servants have ten times more text. Some older servants have more lines in other servants’ Valentine scenarios than their own, which is just sad.” (30s/F)
“I want the Grail Fronts and dog fetch systems as permanent additions to the game.” (40s/F)
“I want it to end properly, yet I don’t want it to end.” (40s/M)
“I’ve given up on skipping NP animations, but at least let us make them faster like skill animations.” (50s/M)
“An extra special slot for bond CEs.” (20s/M)
“Actual male swimsuit servants, not costumes!” (30s/F)
“I want an anime with the female main character.” (10s/F)

Finally, surveyees were asked for comments for the anniversary and some of the answers were:

“I only just started, but I plan on following, so please keep going on!” (10s/M)
“This has become the game I’ve played for the longest period in my life.” (30s/M)
“I was a student when FGO started, and now I’m working. I hope it’s still going when I retire!” (20s/F)
“I still want an NP skip function. It’s because we like the animations that we don’t want to get sick of them. Please understand.” (30s/F)
“I want the game to keep going on. I hope we can import our data to FGO2.” (40s/M)
“Aim for a 10th anniversary!” (40s/F)

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