Over One Billion Hours Played In 2021

"simmerorigin;c-18023950" wrote:
To put it into perspective, we can estimate that there are only about a couple million active players of the Sims in the entire world in 2021. Other franchises are in the 10s of millions. Top games, like Fortnite, are close to 100 million. Sims 4 is a tiny fish.

Separately, we have multiple signals that engagement has fallen in the latter half of the year.

Lackluster content release (Kits ad nauseam) causing dwindling morale on social media

EA Marketing has invested in a major partnership with Bretman Rock in an apparent attempt to recruit new, young Gen Z players

Scenarios were introduced with a particular emphasis on time-limited scenarios to encourage players to complete them before they expire

Well Fortnite and Call of Duty are the big fishes and I don't think the sims4 is really comparable to those huge giants. But yes, it does feel like they have recently tried a bit more than usual to create player engagement.

A couple of million of players every year is not bad though, but I always find it fascinating... look at other social media, these forums etc. does it really feel like this game have a million active people?

It would be interesting to see other player stats too, mostly daily, weekly and monthly active players. I wonder how many they have had these last six months, I have barely played the game at all.