Head to head

EverQuest vs Guild Wars 2

EverQuest

Live

740 – 3k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 47k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

March 1999 · 27 years ago

August 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

740 – 3k

13k – 47k

Estimated players

8.8k3.1%

86.1k1.1%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

EverQuestGuild Wars 2

EverQuest

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~8.9k	Down 1.9%
August 2026	~9.1k	Down 1.1%
July 2026	~9.2k	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~86.1k	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: 282Down 2.8%
Guild Wars 2: 5.6kUp 5.1%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 20× as many peak concurrent Steam players as EverQuest — 5,592 vs 282.

Discord members

EverQuest: 17.2kUp 0.3%
Guild Wars 2: 47.8k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 2.8× as many Discord members as EverQuest — 47,769 vs 17,194.

Reddit members

EverQuest: 31.7kUp 0.5%
Guild Wars 2: 427.5kUp 0.5%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 14× as many subreddit members as EverQuest — 427,457 vs 31,662.

Twitch viewers

EverQuest: 79Up 8.2%
Guild Wars 2: 785Down 69%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 9.9× as many live Twitch viewers as EverQuest — 785 vs 79.

YouTube subscribers

EverQuest: —
Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.9%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 219,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for EverQuest.

How these estimates are made

EverQuest

EverQuest is estimated to have 740 – 3k players a day. Around 66k – 170k 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.