LiveJuly 2010 · 16 years ago

Need for Speed: World

2estimated players

23 – 11k daily players

Need for Speed: World was the fifteenth installment in the long-running racing video game Need for Speed franchise published by Electronic Arts. This iteration was co-developed by EA Black Box (rebranded Quicklime Games before closing in 2013) and EA Singapore. It was the first freemium MMORG in the Need for Speed series (though Motor City Online was originally conceived as a Need for Speed game) and was available on Microsoft Windows. World was released worldwide on July 27, 2010. However, people who ordered a "Starter Pack" had an early "head-start" in the game, which started on July 20, 2010. Need for Speed: World, along with other EA free-to-play titles Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, and FIFA World, went offline on July 14, 2015.

Need for Speed: World is estimated to have 23 – 11k players a day. Around 15k – 2m 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.

Player stats

Estimated daily players

23 – 11 thousand

How many people we think play Need for Speed: World on a given day.

Estimated total players

15 thousand – 1.5 million

How many accounts we think have played Need for Speed: World at some point.

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

Community activity

Daily Need for Speed: World community data tracked across Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube.

Twitch viewers

0 live streams

0Down 100% past month

Need for Speed: World recently drew 0 live viewers on Twitch across 0 streams; viewership peaked at 41 on Aug 21, 2026. Twitch viewership is down 100% over the past month.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Need for Speed: World?

Need for Speed: World has an estimated 23–11,000 daily players and roughly 15,000–1,500,000 accounts that have played it in total, as of September 2026. The range is modelled from the size of the game’s Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities rather than measured, so treat it as a rough band.