Would you buy pre teens pack?

I have no idea. EA/Maxis updated teens recently with High School Years by adding some new features and also changed some of their voice lines and animations and I feel that's the limit of what they were able/wanted to do. They also gave children some more things with Growing Together.

I was looking forward to HSY but I was incredibly disappointed of that pack so me caring about pre-teens would really depend on what they would do with them.

If we were to ever get preteens I'd want to send them to school and be able to see then in school like with High School Years.

I'd rather see teens become shorter, and have children given more gameplay options. I'd rather expand what we have instead of adding something new.

At this point, another life stage might break the game lol. It would be nice to have a more steady progression in aging, but the game is 10 years old and that might be something more streamlined in TS5.

"graventhe;c-18255075" wrote:

"Chicklet453681;c-18255032" wrote:
What exactly would be in this pack?

Are you wanting this for "kids" and are just pretending they're closer in age to being a teen?

Or is this for teens you're pretending aren't basically a YA?

I mean to me the "kids" look like they're about 9-10 years old and teens look like they're close to graduating.

Or are you asking for a new life stage to be added?

The stage is a new stage called pre teens, they’re already in sims free play, they fill the big age gap between kids and teens..

From around 11 to 15 years, kids in game look 8, 9 years and teens look around 20, that’s a huge age gap!

there need to be a life stage between teens and kids to fill this gap

Pre teens males could have little mustache where puberty start instead of teens, have crushes and maybe first kisses? They could add playable active middle school as another gameplay option..

The possibilities are endless..

Oh ok, when I read "Pack" I was thinking of DLC Pack like they did for teens with HSY and the kids room and toddler stuff packs, which I couldn't figure out which life stage it would be for since we don't have a "Pre-Teen" life stage.

I wouldn't object to Sims 5 having a Pre-Teen stage, but I don't think it's worth it for Sims 4.

I mean, I understand why people want it, and if we were to get it, I'd roll with it, but they'll likely get no more support going forward than children do now. And on top of that, there's a lot of work involved. Infants didn't have anything to "keep" between newborn and toddler, while Pre-Teens would have to have more or less all the animations and interactions that child sims do, plus more.

And then, when they're inevitably not supported as well as everyone wants, people will spend a lot of time justly complaining about it, making it yet one more life stage competing for attention in future packs, meaning we're likely to get *less* for children moving forward, because they'll have to split their resources between children and pre-teens.

Basically, I see it as a noble desire that will lead to a huge mess and more dissapointment and anger from the community, so I don't see it as being worth it to open that can of worms.

But what do I know, I didn't want Infants either.

There's certainly nothing "urgent" about the pre-teen life stage and after reading the comments I've switched from being cool with it patched in to actually opposed to it. The problems people seem to have with the current life stages seem mostly cosmetic and adding an entirely new life stage just doesn't make sense in the context of the game's overall lifespanI . If there is a problem at all, it's that teens seem too mature, but teenagehood is so unique IRL because it's a relatively short period of your life during which development and maturity drastically across individuals. I actually think teen milestones would have been a better solution. HSY was basically a missed opportunity to revamp the teen phase but here we are.

No. Why would I pay up to 40 bucks to make a life stage at least somewhat useful?

Pre teens could come as an update before/with a bands/musical artist pack.

And only if they also patch in a proper senior lifestage to follow adult into retirement.