Head to head

Lost Ark vs World of Warcraft

Lost Ark

Live

13k – 47k daily

World of Warcraft

Live

630 – 300k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2018 · 8 years ago

November 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

13k – 47k

630 – 300k

Estimated players

63.5k0.8%

561.9k1.8%

Available on

Windows

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Lost ArkWorld of Warcraft

Lost Ark

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~63.9k	Down 0.8%
August 2026	~64.4k	Up 0.2%
July 2026	~64.3k	—

World of Warcraft

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~572.8k	Up 0.7%
August 2026	~568.6k	Up 14%
July 2026	~500.1k	—

Community breakdown

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

Steam concurrent players

Lost Ark: 4.2kDown 24%
World of Warcraft: —

Lost Ark currently has 4,224 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for World of Warcraft.

Reddit members

Lost Ark: 299.8kUp 0.2%
World of Warcraft: 3.2mUp 0.3%

World of Warcraft currently has about 11× as many subreddit members as Lost Ark — 3,165,078 vs 299,782.

Twitch viewers

Lost Ark: 1.1kUp 4.1%
World of Warcraft: 34.6kUp 7.9%

World of Warcraft currently has about 32× as many live Twitch viewers as Lost Ark — 34,616 vs 1,075.

YouTube subscribers

Lost Ark: 103k
World of Warcraft: 1.9m

World of Warcraft currently has about 19× as many YouTube subscribers as Lost Ark — 1,940,000 vs 103,000.

Discord members

Lost Ark: —
World of Warcraft: 168.5kUp 2.0%

World of Warcraft currently has 168,487 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Lost Ark.

How these estimates are made

Lost Ark

Lost Ark is estimated to have 13k – 47k 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.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is estimated to have 630 – 300k players a day. Around 120k – 12m 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.