I don't have time today to read this, but I thought I'd bring it here for discussion: Amelia Tait, "'I want to cheat on him and set him on fire': why are we sadistic towards our Sims?" New Statesman, January 6, 2017.

I completely understand the author saying this.....I understand Adam’s motivations. After purchasing a copy of Sims 4 last week, I played for an hour, found an in-game boyfriend, engaged in some titillating WooHoo and then grew bored with the traditional way of playing the game.

Oh man, I love sims torture. It's like the game even encouraged it to begin with. Especially after you just got that one sims that you're really attached to get electrocuted from repairing stuff (sims 3, sims 4 one is kind of unaffected by electrocution) I usually just go ham and try to burn all the npc, or drown them, or starve them in a room. Hmm, I think I have issue.

Oh my, I'm depressed when my sim is sad, can't imagine torturing them! :D That's why I don't like pets in the sims - I always feel guilty when sim is not playing with his dog or cat.

I vacillate between being a helpful god that will help sims clean up the mess and being a vengeful god who will set the kitchen on fire with the sims in it and then delete the door. I'd say that I'm a fickle deity.

Personally speaking, I feel like I play Sims in a way of reality to keep a progressive storyline. The Sims do have limited amount of ways of dying in comparison to the real world and death (at least in ts4) is not autonomous or frequent as it was in other series. So I have to kill a Sim or two so that my story could go "oh, they lost this family member or this person died and now love is lost or whatever the case me be". In ts2, I killed Sims just for the fun of it and maybe that was because I was younger. In ts3, I killed Sims but it wasn't as fun as doing it in ts2. Buy now that I'm growing in my young adult life, my game play has not been about killing or torturing sims, but about progressing on into adulthood (marriage, children, working, etc.) because that's where I'm at now in life and want my Sims to experience it too. (I may be too attached to this game and playing it as a reality).I'm not sadistic or a psychopath. It's just a game where my imagination of storytelling goes. It's where I would create a cheating Sim to marry and then see how he or her ruin the lives of those around them. Do I condone this is real life? No, but it's like my alternative world as I like to refer it to.Sims has been a game that I use to distress after a long day at work or school or when real life is just too overwhelming and I have no one to talk to. So I'll vent and take my frustrations out on my Sims sometimes. It's great at just taking your mind off things.Eta: autocorrect corrections

"Why Are We Sadistic Towards Our Sims?" (New Statesman article)

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Araquial
9 years ago
I don't really torture my sims. I killed a few for story purposes but I'm not worried about it.

You see when you're playing wow and yelling at your screen "die mage, die" when you're actually killing another persons character, a sim death is not even a blimp on the radar haha.
runamoksims
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
"v12creator;15472998" wrote:
"MingYangYo;15472966" wrote:
So let me get this straight. Killing sims makes us sadistic and in need of some kind of saving? Hmm no wonder the devs turned the death rates down the simming community turned into fluffy marshmallows. And they can't die if we take the ladder away ugh that's what made the Sims well the Sims!!! The fun is so gone with this generation.

Yeah, the whole "child friendly" and "Political correct" has done a bad service to this series ever since Thesims3.

It started happening after TS2. Then again I wasn't involved with the TS2 community so maybe it happened then too. After each new death in TS3 there were threads asking for the death to be tweaked. I had been looking forward to things like the Murphy bed or vending machine death and players (seemed to be the same ones most of the time) asked for the deaths to have less of a chance.

The regular deaths were tweaked too. When TS3 was new you could almost count on sending a Sim with 0 handiness to fix a TV and they would get electrocuted. By the time the game was finished,five years later, all that happened was an increased skill level.
aaronjc123
9 years ago
I always feel bad for being cruel to my Sims. :'(
Luxhysteria
9 years ago
I always used to torture my sims in sims 1.

After that i never really did in 2.
Barely even played 3.

Theres just so much to do and torturing a sim ive put a lot of hours into just isn't going to happen.
Jestina
9 years ago
Maybe someone doesn't understand the concept of RP. If i'm playing a good sim then I generally won't be causing problems. On the other hand, if i'm playing a sim with traits like evil, mean, hot headed, etc. then other sims will probably be getting hurt and murdered.
V12creator
9 years ago
"PHOEBESMOM601;15473060" wrote:
"v12creator;15472998" wrote:
"MingYangYo;15472966" wrote:
So let me get this straight. Killing sims makes us sadistic and in need of some kind of saving? Hmm no wonder the devs turned the death rates down the simming community turned into fluffy marshmallows. And they can't die if we take the ladder away ugh that's what made the Sims well the Sims!!! The fun is so gone with this generation.

Yeah, the whole "child friendly" and "Political correct" has done a bad service to this series ever since Thesims3.

It started happening after TS2. Then again I wasn't involved with the TS2 community so maybe it happened then too. After each new death in TS3 there were threads asking for the death to be tweaked. I had been looking forward to things like the Murphy bed or vending machine death and players (seemed to be the same ones most of the time) asked for the deaths to have less of a chance.

The regular deaths were tweaked too. When TS3 was new you could almost count on sending a Sim with 0 handiness to fix a TV and they would get electrocuted. By the time the game was finished,five years later, all that happened was an increased skill level.

Point is, Tone down the game is a bad idea , period.

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