Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs RuneScape Classic

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 46k daily

RuneScape Classic

Live

13 – 6k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

January 2001 · 26 years ago

Daily players

13k – 46k

13 – 6k

Estimated players

87.2k2.9%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2RuneScape Classic

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~85.4k	Down 0.9%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

RuneScape Classic

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~1	Down 50%
September 2026	~2	Up 100%
August 2026	~1	—
July 2026	—	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 5.3kDown 2.0%
RuneScape Classic: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 5,270 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.6kDown 0.4%
RuneScape Classic: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 47,570 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 429.1kUp 0.4%
RuneScape Classic: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 429,112 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for RuneScape Classic.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 805Down 50%
RuneScape Classic: 2Down 33%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 403× as many live Twitch viewers as RuneScape Classic — 805 vs 2.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219k
RuneScape Classic: —

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

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 46k players a day. Around 510k – 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.

RuneScape Classic

RuneScape Classic is estimated to have 13 – 6k players a day. Around 11k – 1m 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.