Head to head

Final Fantasy XI Online vs Guild Wars 2

Final Fantasy XI Online

Live

250 – 120k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

14k – 48k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

May 2002 · 24 years ago

August 2012 · 14 years ago

Daily players

250 – 120k

14k – 48k

Estimated players

7430%

87.7k3.6%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Final Fantasy XI OnlineGuild Wars 2

Final Fantasy XI Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~86	Down 17%
September 2026	~104	Down 12%
August 2026	~118	Up 44%
July 2026	~82	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~85.7k	Down 0.6%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
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.

Twitch viewers

Final Fantasy XI Online: 304Down 47%
Guild Wars 2: 407Down 75%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 1.3× as many live Twitch viewers as Final Fantasy XI Online — 407 vs 304.

Steam concurrent players

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 3.6kDown 43%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 3,647 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Discord members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 47.6kDown 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,559 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Reddit members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 429.2kUp 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 429,203 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

YouTube subscribers

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 219k

Guild Wars 2 currently has 219,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

How these estimates are made

Final Fantasy XI Online

Final Fantasy XI Online is estimated to have 250 – 120k players a day. Around 53k – 5m 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.