"JoAnne65;c-17414962" wrote:"nucleonide;c-17298858" wrote:
Whenever I see a topic like this, I always wonder if EA sees the player demand for it. My impression of EA is that they are a very traditional, numbers-focused company. If they don't see the numbers, they will not put their resources to develop it.
One quick look at the Gallery and Elders very rarely come up. Toddlers are less rare but still much fewer than the households that are Young Adult/Adult-only. I don't have all the data--the Gallery is PC/Mac-only and not everyone uploads to the Gallery--but if I were to guess why the focus on YA/A, it's probably simply because it gets the most numbers. Of course, the catch-22 is Toddlers and Elders get fewer gameplay features than YA/As, which also explains the lack of numbers. So... it's a complicated cycle, to say the least.
To be fair, I am also guilty of focusing too much on YA/A. That's why I've been consciously trying to add more Elders and Toddlers, even Elder-only households. I should also probably upload them to the Gallery... if and when I finish my world rebuilding project :sweat_smile:
Uploading to the Gallery ≠ playing and enjoying a life stage. I also prefer to play young adults by the way (I’m middle aged myself), but that doesn’t mean the other stages are unimportant to me. It means I like playing a life stage where people explore things, find love, travel, go out, have adventures. But the other life stages are so important to give my sims’ lives more depth. One of the reasons I don’t play them as much, is because there’s nothing unique about them. If they’d be more fun in their own way, I’d definitely play with them. Fleshed out other life stages make the YA life stage more fun as well.
