Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs Lost Ark

Guild Wars 2

Live

17k – 59k daily

Lost Ark

Live

14k – 48k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

December 2018 · 8 years ago

Daily players

17k – 59k

14k – 48k

Estimated players

91.2k7.9%

63.6k0.2%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2Lost Ark

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~86.6k	Up 1.3%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

Lost Ark

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~63.9k	Down 0.9%
August 2026	~64.4k	Up 0.2%
July 2026	~64.3k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 4.4kDown 27%
Lost Ark: 4.2kDown 34%

Guild Wars 2 and Lost Ark are nearly even on peak concurrent Steam players — 4,377 vs 4,177.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.8k
Lost Ark: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,751 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Lost Ark.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 427.7kUp 0.5%
Lost Ark: 299.8k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 1.4× as many subreddit members as Lost Ark — 427,695 vs 299,838.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 12.6kUp 797%
Lost Ark: 986Down 56%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 13× as many live Twitch viewers as Lost Ark — 12,566 vs 986.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219kUp 1.9%
Lost Ark: 103k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 2.1× as many YouTube subscribers as Lost Ark — 219,000 vs 103,000.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 17k – 59k 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.

Lost Ark

Lost Ark is estimated to have 14k – 48k players a day. Around 3m – 7m 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.