Head to head

Age of Empires: Online vs PlanetSide 2

Age of Empires: Online

Live

23 – 79 daily

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 5k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2011 · 15 years ago

November 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

23 – 79

1k – 5k

Estimated players

3.4k6.3%

26.8k

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Age of Empires: OnlinePlanetSide 2

Age of Empires: Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~3.2k	Up 3.8%
August 2026	~3.1k	Up 17%
July 2026	~2.7k	—

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.7k
August 2026	~26.7k	Up 12%
July 2026	~23.9k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Steam concurrent players

Age of Empires: Online: 6Down 45%
PlanetSide 2: 472Up 52%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 79× as many peak concurrent Steam players as Age of Empires: Online — 472 vs 6.

Discord members

Age of Empires: Online: 9.6k
PlanetSide 2: —

Age of Empires: Online currently has 9,622 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

Reddit members

Age of Empires: Online: 2.6kUp 0.2%
PlanetSide 2: 91.5kUp 0.2%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 35× as many subreddit members as Age of Empires: Online — 91,543 vs 2,593.

Twitch viewers

Age of Empires: Online: 0Down 100%
PlanetSide 2: 43Up 207%

Age of Empires: Online currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while PlanetSide 2 has 43.

YouTube subscribers

Age of Empires: Online: 2.8k
PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%

PlanetSide 2 currently has about 35× as many YouTube subscribers as Age of Empires: Online — 98,400 vs 2,820.

How these estimates are made

Age of Empires: Online

Age of Empires: Online is estimated to have 23 – 79 players a day. Around 17k – 44k accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 1k – 5k players a day. Around 1m – 3m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.