Head to head

Final Fantasy XI Online vs Sea of Thieves

Final Fantasy XI Online

Live

250 – 120k daily

Sea of Thieves

Live

15k – 54k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

May 2002 · 24 years ago

March 2018 · 9 years ago

Daily players

250 – 120k

15k – 54k

Estimated players

7511%

297.8k4.9%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Windows
PlayStation
Xbox

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

First Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Final Fantasy XI OnlineSea of Thieves

Final Fantasy XI Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~89	Down 14%
September 2026	~104	Down 12%
August 2026	~118	Up 44%
July 2026	~82	—

Sea of Thieves

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~295.1k	Down 1.1%
September 2026	~298.4k	Down 0.4%
August 2026	~299.6k	Down 0.4%
July 2026	~300.7k	—

Community breakdown

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

Twitch viewers

Final Fantasy XI Online: 395Up 34%
Sea of Thieves: 1.8kDown 34%

Sea of Thieves currently has about 4.5× as many live Twitch viewers as Final Fantasy XI Online — 1,786 vs 395.

Steam concurrent players

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Sea of Thieves: 3.6kDown 3.9%

Sea of Thieves currently has 3,612 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Discord members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Sea of Thieves: 443.8k

Sea of Thieves currently has 443,768 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

Reddit members

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Sea of Thieves: 615kUp 0.2%

Sea of Thieves currently has 614,966 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Final Fantasy XI Online.

YouTube subscribers

Final Fantasy XI Online: —
Sea of Thieves: 675k

Sea of Thieves currently has 675,000 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.

Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves is estimated to have 15k – 54k players a day. Around 4m – 11m 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.