LiveJuly 2010 · 16 years ago

Need for Speed: World

4estimated players320% this week

42 – 20k 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 42 – 20k players a day. Around 21k – 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

42 – 20 thousand

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

Estimated total players

21 thousand – 2 million

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

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
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

1 live streams

Need for Speed: World recently drew 1 live viewers on Twitch across 1 streams; viewership peaked at 25 on Aug 1, 2026. Twitch viewership has held steady over the past week.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Need for Speed: World?

Need for Speed: World has an estimated 42–20,000 daily players and roughly 21,000–2,000,000 accounts that have played it in total, as of August 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.