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7 years ago
"Terra;c-16246275" wrote:"Erpe;c-16242008" wrote:
Your daughter isn’t typical for two reasons:
1. She already has TS3 and TS4 and therefore doesn’t need to convince her parents (who usually aren’t simmers) to let her get the games. She already has them and knows them.
2. The target group is mainly 10 to 14 years olds who already are quite good readers and therefore can read the texts in the game. But your daughter is likely a little too young for this.
EA has attempted to renew the game and its expansions. But mostly for the sales videos which now are happier than earlier and show a lot of funny behavior. This is intended to sell the game and it seems to work quite well such that TS4 and its expansions now seem to sell as well as TS3 and its expansions did. But we know that the forum users can’t be the reason because a lot of them have stopped playing or returned to TS3. Therefore the reason must be that the young (mainly girls) in the target group wants the game and all its expansions just to try them out and to see all this funny behavior in their own game. They likely just don’t play the game long enough to become bored with all the repetions like most of us here do. Instead they just stop playing for a while when they have seen the things that amuses them and wait for the next free update or expansion. If this wasn’t true then how would you otherwise explain the high sales numbers for TS4 which now even have motivated EA to release two GPs each year instead of only one yearly GP like EA did in the beginning?
Oh right, because earlier Sims trailers (you know, for those games where middle-aged people were said by Will Wright to be the biggest audience) never focused on funny behaviours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIwXl5JXuII
Your unsubstantiated comments about young girls and their short attention spans, inability to appreciate complexity, and preference for shallow experiences need to stop. Have you been a young girl? No? Then I suggest you stop trying to speak for them.
I never said any of those things!
Sure my daughter and a lot of other young girls don’t have short attention spans, inability to appreciate complexity or are shallow! Where did that come from?!!???
But young girls (and young boys too) have many more things in their lives and many more things that they want to try than adults who are singles, without a job or retired and therefore uses the game to get a little relaxing or variation in their otherwise often quite boring lives. Young teens and preteens have a thousand things that they want to try and they have a lot of friends, school, Facebook, sports and whatever. So they usually don’t just sit home every day with their computer and play the same game every day for years and then also go to this forum to read and write about the game too! That is the huge difference!
There were a lot of such young simmers in the Danish Sims 2 forum. But did they just write about the game all the time like the adult simmers did? No. They rarely discussed the game at all except when EA just had released a new EP or when they had technical problems with the game. The rest of the time they were in the offtopic forum where they wrote hundreds of messages every day. Those messages were about their school, their homework, their (boy-)friends, the many forum games they played and sometimes also about meeting eachother in the real world. The adult simmers on the other hand never wrote about anything else but the game!
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