Head to head

Phantasy Star Online vs World of Warcraft

Phantasy Star Online

Live

17 – 8k daily

World of Warcraft

Live

690 – 320k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2000 · 26 years ago

November 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

17 – 8k

690 – 320k

Estimated players

164%

584k9.3%

Available on

Windows
macOS

Platforms

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Perspectives

Third Person

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Phantasy Star OnlineWorld of Warcraft

Phantasy Star Online

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~2
September 2026	~2	Down 50%
August 2026	~4	—

World of Warcraft

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~596.6k	Up 1.0%
September 2026	~590.7k	Up 3.9%
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.

Twitch viewers

Phantasy Star Online: 4Down 90%
World of Warcraft: 44kDown 64%

World of Warcraft currently has about 10994× as many live Twitch viewers as Phantasy Star Online — 43,974 vs 4.

Discord members

Phantasy Star Online: —
World of Warcraft: 187.1kUp 7.6%

World of Warcraft currently has 187,147 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

Reddit members

Phantasy Star Online: —
World of Warcraft: 3.2mUp 0.3%

World of Warcraft currently has 3,206,173 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

YouTube subscribers

Phantasy Star Online: —
World of Warcraft: 2mUp 1.5%

World of Warcraft currently has 2,000,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Phantasy Star Online.

How these estimates are made

Phantasy Star Online

Phantasy Star Online is estimated to have 17 – 8k players a day. Around 13k – 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.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is estimated to have 690 – 320k players a day. Around 130k – 13m 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.