So Sims 4 is a young adult simulator ?

I have to agree with this partially because yes the focus is YA and Adult, but they have a lot of the game play very similar to what teens and kids obsessed with tech all day who don't know about any life skills or communication which is interesting how this isolation has brought out how many people are unskilled in life skills and it is finally teaching them how to do crafts making masks and learn to cut hair and talk to people again with letters and video chat. I am trying to learn another language, so my third language learning now. Sometimes I feel like the Sims 4 is made for Generation Alpha which is kids 10 and younger wanting to play a dress up doll game so not much simulation and game play in this generation of the Sims sadly.

"thesimmer14;c-17446953" wrote:
The thing I've noticed is that they've taken a step back from "creating families" to "creating yourself". At least in their promotional tidbits. I must've seen about four ads over the past week depicting a young adult creating their "ideal" self in The Sims.

This was always an option, sure, but wasn't the original idea about making pretend families, rather than making up for the shortcomings of the world's inequalities? Don't get me wrong, I support the whole women's day thing, as well as the LGBT representation. But it feels like they're marketing it as a stigma-battle simulator lately. The over-emphasis on YA's is telling.

[This is coming from a 20-year old liberal arts college student, aka, their target audience :p )

Sorry but I have to argue the idea that it was originally meant specifically for "creating families"... A "life" simulator means what you want it to mean. That can mean playing dollhouse family, or it can mean you as you would like to be, or you doing things to get out your frustrations. Lots of possibilities.

And grateful to those who pointed out that the very idea that there needed to be special exclusive "elder" activities is insulting and stereotyped. Elders are adults who didn't die tragically young. Adults are...young adults who didn't die even younger. So I am still listening to crickets chirping over what these special activities are that represent young adults but somehow exclude other kinds of adult. Work a job? Have a kid? Have a relationship? Go out? check, check, check...

The worst is when people depict as realistic and needful, elders sitting around knitting. You know who is knitting these days? Young adults. :D

The Sims 4 isn't a young adult simulator, it's a shop with a mobile Tamagotchi app, playing in the window.

My 82-year-old mother uses her cellphone all the time.

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17445185" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17445077" wrote:

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17445070" wrote:
@Beardedgeek

This is why I see the game to be a tech addict simulator. When the use of a computer or any electronic device is basically required in a majority of the career options.

I know! it's almost like real life! How odd! (sarcasm, yes).

In real life a majority of jobs DO NOT require a computer. I know the employment opportunity which I currently am schooling for does not. Even jobs that should not require one have daily tasks which make it seem they require it.

Yah most jobs do not require a computer.

"Simmer4Ever2020;c-17447703" wrote:
No! It's for all ages my 3 year old plays but she still needs lots of help her favorite part is the toddlers. The play with toddler inreaction. My 8 year old naphew plays also, my 12-year-old does too. I am 39 and I play. It's not age or gender defines who plays the sims it's preference.

I never said kids don't play the sims. Im saying did they made this into a young adult simulator.