Any hope left for Pre-teens?

"coldplay2233;d-1009873" wrote:
I've only recently returned to The Sims 4 after several years absence.

After aging up one of my child sims into a teen, I was reminded about just how big of a jump it is. The teens in this game are still indistinguishable from Young Adults.

With The Sims 4 almost 10 years old and Sims 5 on the horizon, is there any hope left that we'll get a new life state?

I believe so I mean they did bring in a modder who now works for The Sims and she started the preteen mod and her ideas were great hopefully they will listen to her and to us simmers who had tons and tons of threads in this forum with great ideas about having a Preteen Lifestage in the game it's new and I personally believe it would be a lot of fun. So if not this game then hopefully in Sims 5.

No more life stages. There is nothing unique about preteens that can't be added to kids and teens.

"PlayerSinger2010;c-18290676" wrote:
No more life stages. There is nothing unique about preteens that can't be added to kids and teens.

Respectfully you don't know that for sure because the franchise has never had them in game.

"Briana2425;c-18290569" wrote:

"coldplay2233;d-1009873" wrote:
I've only recently returned to The Sims 4 after several years absence.

After aging up one of my child sims into a teen, I was reminded about just how big of a jump it is. The teens in this game are still indistinguishable from Young Adults.

With The Sims 4 almost 10 years old and Sims 5 on the horizon, is there any hope left that we'll get a new life state?

I believe so I mean they did bring in a modder who now works for The Sims and she started the preteen mod and her ideas were great hopefully they will listen to her and to us simmers who had tons and tons of threads in this forum with great ideas about having a Preteen Lifestage in the game it's new and I personally believe it would be a lot of fun. So if not this game then hopefully in Sims 5.

@Briana2425 This is what I think too, because they hired her. I think because of this and infants being added, that we very much so might get preteens/middle school age teens. It's the waiting and not knowing when that is hard. It would be very exciting if they do add them and I personally think they will. o:)

The team employed the preteen modder last year, but I don’t know her position in the team
Let’s hope and wait

"Arca;c-18290975" wrote:
The team employed the preteen modder last year, but I don’t know her position in the team
Let’s hope and wait

@Arca she is an assistant producer for EA.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18296089" wrote:
Life By You and Paralives don't have Preteen same as the previous games and spin-offs.

So nothing let me think that will happen in the future.


I can't imagine the studio spending 3 years to develop a new life stage which have no gameplay and a poor CAS collection.
And make Preteen compatible with interactions from 14 EP and 12 GP.

A lot of work for what gain in term of fun ?

There are plenty of things which would be more fun to add to the game (Car, circus, hotel, band, fairies, zombies, ...).

@LeGardePourpre Paralives, and Life By You are being developed as we speak so I wouldn't just rule that out quite yet there's still a lot of time for both games especially since life by you extended their early access.

I'd say never say never and expect the unexpected I personally didn't expect to see infants coming to the game but yet here they are.

Also Preteens are in the Sims Freeplay they can look to that for gameplay inspiration and there's tons of ideas in this forum of threads talking about Preteens it's well into the thousands they can come up with something also they can go ask Middle Schoolers Preteen age on the idea.

Yes that all can be added into the game but preteens can't???

"LeGardePourpre;c-18296147" wrote:

"Briana2425;c-18296145" wrote:
Also Preteens are in the Sims Freeplay they can't look to that for gameplay inspiration and there's tons of ideas in this forum of threads talking about Preteens it's well into the thousands they can come up with something also they can go ask Middle Schoolers Preteen age on the idea.

The Sims FreePlay replaced Child by Preteen, so the sims grow from Toddler to Preteen to Teen.
"A tons of idea" but nothing new, Crush and Middle School are renamed existing features.

Infant life stage is a different case because it brought a new gameplay that Toddler never gave.


Personally I would appreciate Preteen in the game to get 3 siblings growing together.
Child, Preteen and Teen as a similar experience as Infant, Toddler and Child.

Hopefully preteens will get added no matter what as I do not like the fact that teens in this game are so identical to adults in many ways it is so uncanny valley at this point. Also, while I want preteens, we also need older Adult lifestage to fix the "my child is a Teen and I'm a Young Adult" problem in this game. How is it even possible Cassandra Goth is already a Teen while her mother Bella is still a YA, only one life stage above her? It feels very unrealistic and stupid lol.

I don’t mind not having preteens, but I wish teens looked younger and shorter than adults. It’s just a little weird to see your child sims age up and immediately look like they could already be paying taxes.

Children feel so young with what little game play we have for them they play with doll houses have imaginary play then in an instant they become adult sized teens in high school. To me it feels like they go from 7 to 16+ but sadly at this point I doubt they will ever come in Sims 4 hopefully we see them in Sims 5 or Life by You.