Suggestion: Sims 4 Add Preteens

First off thank you for the quick response!!! Also, I am glad that you agree with my point of view, and are forwarding the idea! Thank you so much!

OMG that is an amazing idea! I would love preteens in the game 

What a stupid idea! We already have 'preteens' - they're called 'children'.

@Belladonna74, no need to be rude. 🤐 Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't' make their idea stupid! ☹️

However, @Nian223, technically children are pre-teens, as are all stages of life that occur before a person reaches their teens! 😉  But we realize you were referring to the particular stage of life commonly called "preteen".   Functionally I don't see pre-teens bringing any different gameplay, as all things experienced by them that make them unique would never be put in a Sims game, and the rest of their behavior is a combo of child behaviors and teen behaviors.  Since those behaviors already exist in the game, I doubt they would create a new life-stage for behaviors already present.😕  (The actual interesting stuff is the actual start of puberty, but that can be gross and embarrassing even for the people playing the game, not to mention controversial, so it makes it more doubtful that EA would add this).

Gameplay aside, I understand that for reasons of simulating our real lives, preteens can be valuable in our game.🙂  It is similar to the laundry debate.  Those who want laundry like their game to reflect real life.  Those that don't want laundry would rather have more unique gameplay. 

Now, they are adding laundry to the game next year.  But I think adding a new life-stage is a lot more difficult to implement in the game than laundry is.😃  Yes, they did add the toddler life-stage, but toddlers have much more unique gameplay options that weren't covered by the life-stages that came with the base game, so it was more worth EA's trouble to make them. 

But it is still good that you let EA know of your wishes! 😇 They might just surprise us and add pre-teens, but even if they don't in TS4, they may do so in TS5 (if there is going to be a TS5)! 😉

@adduapinamaybe you will get your wish! 😉  It can't hurt to ask! 🙂

As for The Sims being a somewhat realistic reflection of our real lives, if EA really wanted to do that even more, then they would have to add cars, bikes, and garages back to the game, as well as baby strollers.  But the single thing I want to make my game more realistic is to add more color choices to CAS and Buy/Build Mode.  It really bothers me when I can have pink earrings in the ice cream cone shape, but not in the small crystal shape!  Or I find the perfect pair of pants, only to find that they only come in muted colors and not jewel tones or pastels (or to find the perfect shirt that comes in pastels or jewel tones, but not muted colors!) 😬  I end up with combinations that I would never put together in real life, or there are articles of clothes I never use because they aren't in the right colors! Same goes for furniture! 😢  If they don't give us the color wheel, then at least give us more colors or all the colors in every article! 🤨

@PugLove888 Yes to the baby stollers. I would love to see those in the game for toddlers.
I would also want them to add jogging option with the stroller as well. I see irl people
jog with stoller, not just walk. I also wish they would go back to adding SETS of furniture
that MATCHES to the game. I so dislike trying to find furniture that matches. If it matches
one way, like wood, it then doesn't match in color or style, gggrrrr, lol This is one of my
biggest issues in game. Have an awesome day.
Happy Simmin

@Bubblye, These are good ideas!  A jogging stroller would be fantastic for our more athletic Sims!   And I also would prefer our furniture to be in sets again because I also hate mis-matched furniture, and even if it does match, sometimes it is difficult to find all the matching pieces without it already being grouped into a set!  (I miss the Moroccan furniture set from previous versions of the Sims! 😢  It was so pretty. )