Head to head

EverQuest II vs Guild Wars 2

EverQuest II

Live

390 – 1k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 47k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2004 · 22 years ago

August 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

390 – 1k

13k – 47k

Estimated players

2k1.5%

85.4k0.2%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

EverQuest IIGuild Wars 2

EverQuest II

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~2k	Up 0.5%
August 2026	~2k	Down 0.3%
July 2026	~2k	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.8%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

EverQuest II: 141Down 25%
Guild Wars 2: 3.8kDown 40%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 27× as many peak concurrent Steam players as EverQuest II — 3,759 vs 141.

Reddit members

EverQuest II: 9.4kUp 0.6%
Guild Wars 2: 428.5kUp 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 46× as many subreddit members as EverQuest II — 428,520 vs 9,407.

Twitch viewers

EverQuest II: 27Up 29%
Guild Wars 2: 1.9kUp 53%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 71× as many live Twitch viewers as EverQuest II — 1,929 vs 27.

YouTube subscribers

EverQuest II: 6.4k
Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 34× as many YouTube subscribers as EverQuest II — 219,000 vs 6,400.

Discord members

EverQuest II: —
Guild Wars 2: 47.6kDown 0.3%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,629 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for EverQuest II.

How these estimates are made

EverQuest II

EverQuest II is estimated to have 390 – 1k players a day. Around 71k – 180k 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.

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 47k players a day. Around 500k – 1m 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.