Would you like pre-teens?

"DaWaterRat;c-17345474" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17345471" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17345445" wrote:
Yes, one of my most wanted thing... along with preschoolers haha

What in the world is a preschooler?

Officially? 3-5 year olds, depending on school district. For how they'd apply to the sims? I personally don't see much difference between that and a toddler sim who has all skills (including potty) at 3 or better...

I knew what a real-world preschooler is, but I've never heard a 3-4 year old described as a preschooler, just as a child or toddler. That's so bizarre.

Preteens as I understand it will be shorter than teens, and taller than kids. This means that they will require their very own wardrobe category in CAS. Now, think about how often a new pack is introduced and the kids and the toddlers who also require their own wardrobe categories in CAS are totally and utterly bypassed. All preteens will accomplish is a category of sims who look just like kids and teens, with all the same attributes of kids and teens who will differ in height just enough that when we get new packs will end up with maybe a new shirt and/or a full body outfit like ever third time. So that then every single YouTuber can then say in their pack reviews: “Did we get anything new for kids...no, toddlers...no, preteens...nope, skunked again. Oh bitter disappointment, why art thou my constant companion?”

Spare us all the agony...please! ?

Everyone said it. Unnecessary. I think some only want preteens for the height and because teens can look pretty "old". But I don't think adding preteens will help. It would only cause more problems and make it seem more lacking. :D

No. Definitely a no. EA needs to improve the lifestages it already has, not add new half-baked ones. I'd like the teenagers to be a bit shorter, but preteens? No.

Preteens are not something I need in my game, but my opinion is more yes than no. Teens look too much like young adults in Sims 4, so it would be nice to get one more age group in between child and these older teens.

The jump between toddler (2-ish) and elementary school child (6-12) is way more abrupt than from child to teen.

Though it is not necessary.

No, I do not want to have another sim-height that will require new animations. Children are already excluded enough as it is.

In a world with unlimited resources for animations I would like to have different heights of adults and then preteens could have been fun. As it is now kids cannot bike because that would require new animations. Adding preteens without adding a good increase in budget for animations would just mean that kids would get left out more.

For my part I would rather see kids getting more new things to do.

I don't think preteens are needed. I'd much rather have a system or feature that gradually aged all of our sims. Like child sims start getting acne or they suddenly need braces, or maybe they get uncomfortable in their clothes because they are out growing them. I could see it being more as a moodlit thing but it would be cool to see their age progress physically. It would also be the same for teen to young adult and on and on. I can't imagine what would set preteens apart from teens or children other than the obvious height difference.

How sad it is that people vote no because of a lack of resources/poor expectations.

But maybe if we all voted yes we would get pre-teens in the sims 5.