Head to head

Dark Ages vs Final Fantasy XIV Online

Dark Ages

Live

9 – 4k daily

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Live

50k – 180k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 1999 · 27 years ago

September 2010 · 16 years ago

Daily players

9 – 4k

50k – 180k

Estimated players

2.1k6.3%

321.9k2.7%

Available on

Windows

Windows
PlayStation
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Dark AgesFinal Fantasy XIV Online

Dark Ages

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2.1k	Down 4.2%
September 2026	~2.2k	Down 2.1%
August 2026	~2.2k	Down 0.9%
July 2026	~2.2k	—

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~320.9k	Down 2.1%
September 2026	~327.7k	Down 0.7%
August 2026	~330k
July 2026	~329.8k	—

Community breakdown

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

Discord members

Dark Ages: 6.9kDown 0.3%
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 279.1kUp 0.2%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 41× as many Discord members as Dark Ages — 279,086 vs 6,875.

Reddit members

Dark Ages: 1.8kUp 0.4%
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 1.4mUp 0.3%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has about 779× as many subreddit members as Dark Ages — 1,368,740 vs 1,756.

Steam concurrent players

Dark Ages: —
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 20.8kDown 16%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 20,822 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

Twitch viewers

Dark Ages: —
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 5.6kDown 7.5%

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 5,603 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

YouTube subscribers

Dark Ages: —
Final Fantasy XIV Online: 742k

Final Fantasy XIV Online currently has 742,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Dark Ages.

How these estimates are made

Dark Ages

Dark Ages is estimated to have 9 – 4k players a day. Around 6k – 580k accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.