Head to head

PlanetSide 2 vs World of Warcraft

PlanetSide 2

Live

1k – 5k daily

World of Warcraft

Live

710 – 330k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

November 2012 · 14 years ago

November 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

1k – 5k

710 – 330k

Estimated players

26.8k

570.2k1.5%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows
macOS

Platforms

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

PlanetSide 2World of Warcraft

PlanetSide 2

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~26.7k
August 2026	~26.7k	Up 12%
July 2026	~23.9k	—

World of Warcraft

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~577.2k	Up 1.5%
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

PlanetSide 2: 448Up 45%
World of Warcraft: —

PlanetSide 2 currently has 448 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for World of Warcraft.

Reddit members

PlanetSide 2: 91.5kUp 0.2%
World of Warcraft: 3.2mUp 0.3%

World of Warcraft currently has about 35× as many subreddit members as PlanetSide 2 — 3,163,607 vs 91,541.

Twitch viewers

PlanetSide 2: 43Up 207%
World of Warcraft: 26.8kDown 2.7%

World of Warcraft currently has about 622× as many live Twitch viewers as PlanetSide 2 — 26,752 vs 43.

YouTube subscribers

PlanetSide 2: 98.4kDown 0.1%
World of Warcraft: 1.9m

World of Warcraft currently has about 20× as many YouTube subscribers as PlanetSide 2 — 1,940,000 vs 98,400.

Discord members

PlanetSide 2: —
World of Warcraft: 168.1kUp 2.0%

World of Warcraft currently has 168,112 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for PlanetSide 2.

How these estimates are made

PlanetSide 2

PlanetSide 2 is estimated to have 1k – 5k players a day. Around 1m – 3m 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 710 – 330k players a day. Around 130k – 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.