{"id":114404,"date":"2020-06-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365191"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:30:00","slug":"the-sims-4-records-peak-high-of-10-million-monthly-active-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/the-sims-4-records-peak-high-of-10-million-monthly-active-users\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 4 records peak high of 10 million monthly active users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Sims 4<\/em> is proving that age is but a number after attracting over 2.5 million new players over the past two months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being nearly six years old, Maxis&#8217; popular lifestyle simulator also recorded a peak high of nearly 10 million daily active users over the past quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That number comes <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.ea.com\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2020\/Apex-Legends-EA-Originals-Star-Wars-Squadrons-EA-SPORTS-and-Skate-Take-Center-Stage-at-EA-Play-Live-2020\/default.aspx\">straight from publisher EA<\/a>, which yesterday announced the title along with all of its post-launch content packs will be heading on Steam.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That news alone is fairly notable, with EA having only recently decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364249\/EA_Access_inches_closer_to_Steam_launch_as_more_EA_games_go_up_for_sale.php\">bring a handful of its titles back to Valve&#8217;s digital marketplace<\/a> after years of skipping the platform in favor of its own Origin storefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sims 4 is proving that age is but a number after attracting over 2.5 million new players over the past two months.&nbsp; Despite being nearly six years old, Maxis&#8217; popular lifestyle simulator also recorded a peak high of nearly 10 million daily active users over the past quarter.&nbsp; That number comes straight from publisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}