Head to head

Guild Wars 2 vs War Selection

Guild Wars 2

Live

13k – 45k daily

War Selection

Live

3k – 10k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

August 2012 · 14 years ago

October 2019 · 7 years ago

Daily players

13k – 45k

3k – 10k

Estimated players

87.8k0.7%

11.3k2.2%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

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Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Guild Wars 2War Selection

Guild Wars 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~87.7k	Up 1.5%
October 2026	~86.4k	Up 0.2%
September 2026	~86.2k	Up 0.9%
August 2026	~85.5k	Up 14%
July 2026	~75.2k	—

War Selection

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
November 2026	~11.1k	Up 2.6%
October 2026	~10.8k	Up 3.6%
September 2026	~10.4k	Up 2.5%
August 2026	~10.2k	Up 21%
July 2026	~8.4k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Guild Wars 2: 5.2kUp 2.9%
War Selection: 391Down 63%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 13× as many peak concurrent Steam players as War Selection — 5,152 vs 391.

Discord members

Guild Wars 2: 47.4kDown 0.4%
War Selection: 27.5k

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 1.7× as many Discord members as War Selection — 47,404 vs 27,464.

Reddit members

Guild Wars 2: 430.3kUp 0.4%
War Selection: —

Guild Wars 2 currently has 430,347 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for War Selection.

Twitch viewers

Guild Wars 2: 366Down 75%
War Selection: 1Down 94%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 366× as many live Twitch viewers as War Selection — 366 vs 1.

YouTube subscribers

Guild Wars 2: 219k
War Selection: 873Up 1.2%

Guild Wars 2 currently has about 251× as many YouTube subscribers as War Selection — 219,000 vs 873.

How these estimates are made

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is estimated to have 13k – 45k 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.

War Selection

War Selection is estimated to have 3k – 10k players a day. Around 420k – 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.