I think people underestimate how boring that would get. Like, when I take a shower myself, I’m in there for five/ten minutes. I feel the hot water, I wash my hair, the entire sensation of taking a shower I experience. Same when I eat: I taste it, I enjoy it. When I read a book I enter a different world and live the life of the people in that book. I stop being me for a while and when it’s a good book that can take hours and hours. When I play a game, when I watch tv: same thing. But consider this:
https://i.gifer.com/C78.gif
If that goes on for like two hours (suppose he’s watching a film), how much fun is your game going to be? I’d go watch a movie myself personally. When we go through life we experience some awesome, varied stuff. Doesn’t make us fun to look at in the process though. When I read a book, then cook, then eat, then play a game, I do four entirely different things. In a game it would come down to pretty much the same thing though. With a lot less variety because it would constantly come down to the same, repetitive animations, unlike real life.
Life you live, in real time. A game you play. Sims is supposed to be a game. Not life.
