Do You Fit The Sims 4 Unique Playerbase?

I am a female, but I am way past that age group. I was 21 (almost 22) when the franchise got started in the first place. I am now 43 (44 in September) lol

I have concert t-shirts that are thrice the age of the target demographic.... :D

I would love to know how they've collected this data. I mean if they don't ask in the game how would they know? They may have a birth date and gender option in the Origin account; I can't remember. But people often lie on those things, so.. If they took a poll the results would be based totally on where the poll was posted.

Until they ask it IN game, they need to not assume they know anything about this.

"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?

Unfortunately, no. 30+ here; they should extend their age range as I know I'm not the only "older" woman who still plays the game. That's not going by this forum alone either but players that aren't on the forum too. Lots of 30+ year olds do as that was the intended age group it was aimed (as far as I know, it was certainly the "in" thing to be playing at that time) at when the franchise was released.

Things have obviously changed demographic wise but I think they're somewhat limiting their "deep insights" if this is the age range that they're sticking to.

Sorry; I realise I probably sound a bit bitter but the age limit thing is just a bit daft..

I'm a man and I'm 29, well, 29b, err, 29u.

"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.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18119162" wrote:

"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.

Oh, I didn't mean that self-identifying was unhelpful to the player. I meant that I don't think that vague statistics like the ones being discussed are particularly helpful in general to the players themselves. One can't really learn much from such simplistic-seeming numbers, at least not without knowing the full background of how and why they were gathered.

If we were to go by just the narrow range in the demographic in question, it could seem as if they think all young women between those ages all like and dislike the same things in a Sims game, but surely they don't really think that. We hope. I'm not in this demographic (never have been), but I wouldn't want a company to assume that I like the same things as everyone else in my demographic, for example, because I very often don't. I'm sure marketing companies hate people like me. I get ads all the time that mostly make no sense for my actual interests, so of course I buy their products less often than others might. :lol:

Well, I'm now in my thirties, but when I started playing the game I was in my teens and was in the stereotypical base, for the most part. I hit 18 while TS2 was ongoing.

So according to this poll so far they are catering to the 3% who is suppose to be the 60%. I am confused. Is this truly the age group of their playerbase? Maybe it was when the Sims 4 started but it has been 7 years and they have not evolved while it is very possible the playerbase has.

Well, that's odd that is the demographic since a former CM said it was the teenage girls on Instagram with the rich parents. :D