"Cinebar;c-17504068" wrote:
"luthienrising;c-17502956" wrote:
"LeGardePourpre;c-17502856" wrote:
@AquaGamer1212 @Cinebar
To shorten it
Gen X is the teens/young adults who grew with MTV
Gen Y is the teens/young adults who grew with Napster, iPod and the first MP3 walkmans. Y is the earphone wire.
Gen Z is the teens/young adults who grew with Netflix, Facebook and the social networks. Z is Zapping.
Actual years used for demographic generations:
- Baby Boomers: born 1945-1964. Current age: 56 to 75
- Gen X: born 1965-1980. Current age: 40 to 55.
- Gen Y/Millennials: born 1981-1996. Current age: 24 to 39. The cutoff is usually said to be at memory of 9/11.
- Gen Z: born 1997- ? Current age: up 23. Personally, I expect memory of 2020 to be a generational cutoff, so Gen Z will probably end up being 1997-2015, so currently 5 to 23.
As for the Gen Z understanding, game franchises die off if they don't get new players. Not sure what age people think new players are supposed to be?? Not keen on all the looking down noses at a particular generation, either. I find it especially appalling that people who themselves started playing this game in their childhood or early teens would think it wrong to try to appeal to current young people. Were you so much better than they are now? Really?
No one is is hating on Gen. Z It's the fact they advertised they want that influence for the game more so than their older fanbase who has remained their core for twenty years. I know games must expand and get newer generations but it seems Redwood thinks somehow older more seasoned players don't actually fill their coffers and Gen Z would be easier to please. I'm wondering how TS4 would have faired if the older, loyal fanbase had not helped get TS4's bad start off the ground (out of some sense of misplaced loyalty) if we, (TS4) would even be here right now, six years later. Everyone should realize TS4's rocky start was saved by the older, core fanbase and not the newer players who could take it or leave it.
What did they care a pool or toddler wasn't in the game? It was fine with them, but Maxis saw the core wasn't going to go for it. Or we wouldn't be here right now. Let me expand this. It seems Maxis had to give away and put on sale more than a dozen times the base and packs to 'get new players' while an older generation of more seasoned players left.
And I will add this, The Sims is a niche group of type of player. Gen Z has many more things to distract them these days than buy over and over The Sims. It's the core that has carried Maxis all these years, we didn't expect free packs or a free base. But to attract them that is what Maxis has had to do. TS4 is what it is, and I don't expect anyone will play this game ten years from now like they have the older games. Nor do I expect a new generation of players will still be there for Maxis twenty years later. Not when they want to go in a new direction and drop their core fanbase over and over.
Actually there are Gen Z players that have played since the Sims 1 because their parents would play it with them. People in general have a lot of distractions with tech. Why do you think they are getting bored during this pandemic? Because they aren't keeping busy doing chores like a responsible adult, exercising, organizing their finances, and learning new skills like cooking or a new language. They just keep putting life off like they did before with all these distractions.
My nephew is a Gen Z and very hard working too and honestly it is because of my family I want to leave a legacy for them and make sure that they are safe. I raised him not to be a lazy gamer and so proud how he is growing up now. <3
