On Grants Tweets

"Simburian;c-17005251" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17005221" wrote:

"Simburian;c-17005212" wrote:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruLyndsay In her Twitter feed she has a list of the Stuff packs.

"Let's look at stuff packs ranked by how many people used them in the first year they were released"


Laundry day came first and you might be surprised that My First Pet Stuff came 4th.

But there’s an option to disable usage sharing data in settings. And you can also disable the internet. So for those players who have them both disabled, they are not included in this ranking correct? So that would mean the ranking is inaccurate and there is no way to track how often those players played those packs?

It's still correct for those who shared usage data. Usage also points to Origin's sales figures doesn't it? I also doubt that many of the thousands using Origin bothered to change the settings and they also stayed on the internet to download stuff from the Gallery. I expect most people play with occasional "minimise to desktop" to see what is going on on Twitter, Facebook and their emails. It's the sort of game that you can play that way. That's what I do anyway.

Usage and sales are not the same. The usage stats are limited by the number of units that have been sold for sure, but if this were a sales ranking there’s no way Get Together would come in last. It was the second expansion pack for this game, the chances that it’s been outsold by GF in less than 6 months is a massively unbelievable stretch.

Usage data is a setting in Sims 4, not only Origin. Both collect and transmit data, but the data is very different and goes to different parties. I would argue that the majority of people shared usage data from both Sims 4 and Origin. Playing offline, or with the game minimized has no effect on usage data being transmitted to EA. It’s done entirely in the background.