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"Scobre;c-16252262" wrote:"Erpe;c-16250820" wrote:"Scobre;c-16250781" wrote:
Yeah I don't understand how you can't play the Sims if you are an adult. I mean most Simmers on forums according to the poll started with the first Sims game, so I doubt they are teens. Anyways I actually had more time to play the Sims in my adult years than in the years I was attending college. I am able to work a full-time job and play more than one Sims game and post on forums, lurk Twitter, check the latest updates on discord, and watch Twitch streams. I guess I can multitask better than the Sims 4 Sims. ;)
Then you aren’t married and have just got one or two very small kids to to take care about too! ;)
Not sure if you are intentionally trying to insult adults and teens all in one go who play Sims games at this point. I may not be married yet, but I've raised both my nephews for 11 years with a niece on the way so not sure what your definition of small kids is when my nephew is taller than me now. I went to college for five years while raising my nephews. I think you are making a lot of assumptions about people you have no idea about both Guru and Simmer alike. But yeah I can play the Sims, take care of my mom's health problems, take care of my own health problems, and take care of my pets and my family. I know how to cook, how to play music, I can read real books, and do crafts. You may or may not have a life outside the Sims, but don't assume that people who play Sims don't have a life or friends or family to take care of because for some of us we do and able to manage it all and then some.
I am not trying to insult anybody. But you will know what I mean when you get your own babies and they wake you up even in the middle of the night where you are trying to get some sleep. Being a new parent is extremely hard and alas it was even harder for my daughter’s mum than it is for most parents. She therefore got a depression and we haven’t lived together since those days even though we still are close friends.
Sims has always been targeted towards teens ever since day one so it is utter nonsense to assume it is a new thing because it isn't. I didn't even have to be on forums to know what the target market of Sims has been all these years. There is a huge difference between target market and the full customer base. What is new is the teen "girls". Will Wright always wanted the game to appeal to both girls and boys alike and why they think they need to appeal to girls only does come off as ironic considering the Sims 4 is trying to go the inclusive direction with the gender update and everything. I would think that would mean they would make activities and CAS items for all genders to enjoy not just focus on a single one.
TS1 originally was targeted at a different group who already played SimCity. This group was mainly males of different ages and in those days all games were targeted at males because there were very few females who were interested in PC games at all. But especially TS1 changed this and EA sure hadn’t expected this change.
Will Wright was mainly just a game designer with various ideas. He wasn’t interested in marketing at all which I also see as the main reason why Maxis got into so much trouble that it couldn’t survive on its own. The co-owner of Maxis was Jeff Baun and I think that he was more the one who was interested in marketing and economics. But he couldn’t get around the fact that only very few of Will Wright’s many games sold very well. Therefore Maxis was sold to EA in 1997 and EA most likely only accepted to develop TS1 for a low budget because it made it easier for EA to buy Maxis. It was the right to the SimCity series that EA wanted and EA had no plans about letting Will Wright make even more games like SimFarm, SimAnt etc.
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