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"LeGardePourpre;c-16216682" wrote:"@Erpe;c-16216607" wrote:"LeGardePourpre;c-16216601" wrote:"@Erpe;c-16216509" wrote:"@Writin_Reg;c-16216498" wrote:
The Truth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_(video_game)
Yes. 11.3 million sold copies sold of TS1 while TS2 only sold a little more than half of that.
The truth about The Sims 2 is a lot of copies were illegal copies, it was the era of the digital piracy for the video games, music and movies.
I think that there were more illegal copies of TS1 though.
Still the main customers for both TS1 and TS2 were very young girls who usually didn’t play other games and who usually knew very little about computers. Beside that they wanted everything as soon as it was released. So I think that the Sims games were pirated much less than other games.
In my case, the only people who played to The Sims 2 I knew in 2006 were all... adult women.
My older sister made me discover this game.
The children played more to Nintendo 64/PlayStation 2/Xbox games than PC games.
I believe you. But your experiences are different from mine and likely because you had more adult women among your friends than very young girls.
But I was a gamer who usually visited the game stores about twice a week. If I was near a game store or a book store I usually entered the store just to see if they had got new games (or sometimes new books that could interest me). So I saw who was looking with interest on the different games and for the Sims games it was always females while it would be unusual to see females look at any other game. Very often there were 2 or 3 females who looked with huge interest at the Sims boxes and discussed them. Sometimes it were 2 young girls and if they were 3 females it often was one adult (most likely the mum) and 2 young girls. The young girls usually looked like teens or preteens.
Later I entered the Danish Sims 2 forum where 10 to 14 yrs olds were like 80% of the simmers in the discussions and I also think that about 80% of the 10 to 14 yrs olds were girls. They were most active in the offtopic forum though where they played forum games and discussed there friends, their school and similar things. That forum was so active that I didn’t understand why any adult would like to moderate it because you often only had to be away very few hours and you would likely be about 700 messages behind just in the offtopic area. The “Sims Mayor” had appointed 5 voluntary moderators for the forum though. But especially in the first week after each release of a new EP all the other parts of the forum exploded too (and often with fighting). So I can understand why EA wanted to later close the Danish Sims 3 forum for all those 10 to 14 yrs olds. (EA succeeded in this - but now the Danish Sims forum is dead and only has about 5 messages a day and not all about Sims 4.)
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