Do You Fit The Sims 4 Unique Playerbase?
A recent (Sept 2021) Maxis job listing for a Senior Game Designer describes the game's "very unique playerbase" and proudly proclaims that 60% of The Sims 4's audience is women between the ages of 18 ...
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"VeeDub;c-18117890" wrote:"crocobaura;c-18117881" wrote:"VeeDub;c-18117842" wrote:"simgirl1010;d-999954" wrote:
A recent (Sept 2021) Maxis job listing for a Senior Game Designer describes the game's "very unique playerbase" and proudly proclaims that 60% of The Sims 4's audience is women between the ages of 18 and 24. Of course, it mentions this for a reason, asking for applicants to have "deep insights" into creating the best experience for its unique playerbase.
https://gamerant.com/sims-4-players-majority-young-women/
Do you fit into this unique playerbase?
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
With everyone being able to self identify as whatever gender they prefer, I do wonder if they affect these statistics in any significant way.
It's certainly possible. Regardless, I consider these kinds of statistics not particularly helpful, at least not to actual players.
I'd argue that "self identification" is actually helpful to a company. I used to do surveys for gift cards and put in my genetic gender during signup, only to get showered with topics I had little to nothing to say about or to get kicked during the screening process already. When I started "lying" and put my "chosen" gender, suddenly the shoe fit. In the end a company wants to sell me stuff, so they benefit from my "lies" because they can now target me with ads for products I might actually buy.
