The Sims conquer Facebook

The Sims conquer Facebook 

For three weeks there is a life simulation game "The Sims", with over 140 million copies sold, one of the most successful video game franchises ever, even as a Facebook app. Within a short time, the Electronic Arts production to one of the most popular applications in the social network has developed. On Tuesday, The Sims jumped over the first time enjoyed the social mark of 40 million monthly users, 10.6 million members within the last 24 hours with their avatar. Within the last seven days, won the match 10.4 million new users. 


The Sims Social 
Image: Electronic Arts is thus "The Sims Social" according to the tracking service Appdata currently ranked two of the most popular games behind the Zynga cityville simulation (75 million monthly users). In places three to five follow Empires & Allies, Texas HoldEm Poker and the long-term Primus Farmville Zynga three more developments that are of a far-reaching cooperation agreement with closely linked to the Facebook social network. 

Electronic Arts The Sims is because Social now in 2nd place of the most successful game studios on Facebook. Zynga's games record but still nearly 200 million monthly users more than the applications of Electronic Arts, the world's top-selling video game producers. Entertaining games enjoy great popularity in social networks: Among the six most frequently used applications on Facebook are currently five so-called casual games (and an app for easier creation of Facebook pages). Of the great importance of games within social networks also testifies that Google's service network + Google only a few weeks after starting a game platform to the side presented.