Head to head

Final Fantasy XI Online vs Guild Wars 2

Final Fantasy XI Online

Live

240 – 110k daily

Guild Wars 2

Live

11k – 39k 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

240 – 110k

11k – 39k

Estimated players

6810%

86.7k1.2%

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
November 2026	~74	Down 9.8%
October 2026	~82	Down 21%
September 2026	~104	Down 12%
August 2026	~118	Up 44%
July 2026	~82	—

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~86k	Down 0.4%
October 2026	~86.4k	Up 0.2%
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: 371Down 7.7%
Guild Wars 2: 805Down 1.8%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 2.2× as many live Twitch viewers as Final Fantasy XI Online — 805 vs 371.

Steam concurrent players

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 3.4kDown 41%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 3,398 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Discord members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 47.4kDown 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,405 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Reddit members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Guild Wars 2: 430.4kUp 0.4%

Guild Wars 2 currently has 430,401 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 240 – 110k players a day. Around 51k – 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.