80 Million people play the Sims in one form or another

The venerable franchise where you can make people die in the pool from exhaustion boasts over 80 million players. Today in their Fiscal Year report, EA announced that The Sims now has over 80 million players between PC and mobile platforms. This is of course, likely bolstered by the popular new Sims Mobile game that EA launched on March 7th.

The Sims 4 has stirred up some controversy, despite the amount of players, for charging people for DLC to an expansion in recent months. Still, people love to build those dream houses, make whoopee, and use the Rosebud cheat whenever necessary.

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William Murphy

Bill Murphy has been blogging and pontificating about video games since 2002. Always ready with more to say than anyone could possibly want to read, he began his professional writing tenure at IGN's Vault Network as an Assistant Community Manager in 2006. Later he moved on to Ten Ton Hammer, and then finally landed a gig as Lead Writer at MMORPG.com and, which has evolved into his current role as Managing Editor. In 2017, he co-founded the all-games site GameSpace.com He lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his beautiful wife, two young sons, and small army of dogs and cats.