Yougov are a very well known pollster who conduct a lot of surveys ranging from politics to business. I like to keep up with the polls myself during these turbulent times but imagine my surprise at seeing Yougov have had a poll up for Simmers!
'While Twitter is talking #gamingconfession, back in 2018 41% of Sims players confessed to us that they had killed their Sims on purpose, with the ever popular swimming pool death the most common method'
Now I know we cannot take polls as 100% accurate but some of their political polling has been spot on in the past. At least Yougov had proven their worth during that point so should it be a worry that up to 41% of us have actually killed their Sims on purpose? Or does it come as a surprise as their are deviant players amongst us.
For me it has been a long time since I have killed a Sim on purpose but I have experimented before. I am from the TS1 era so you can imagine how wild things used to be back then. My worst was building a hedge around a house and placing a BBQ next to it and then letting the BBQ catch fire and watch it slowly take out almost the whole hedge. I left free will off though and no Sims died during this experiment.
Shall we accept that roughly 41% of players have been deviant at some point or shall we 'wait for Survation' as the joke goes*
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Survation is another pollster and in the olden days if people on Twitter did not like a Yougov poll then they would say 'I will wait for Survation'
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Only for TS4 though. Us TS3 players are a mystery to EA these days!
I know that I for one, definitely do. Not all of my sims! Sometimes it's needed for your story though, and sometimes you just don't like that townie...
Now, how many characters has a teen killed on shooters games...? Or any other kind of games where characters get killed...?
Ive killed sims on purpose. There was one sim I thought was incredibly annoying and I hated her face, so I decided she just needed to be set on fire. Another time I was trying out a new mod and I decided to have one sim die of severe illness. This was also for story purposes. If I decide to kill off a sim, I dont always have a reason nor do I look for one. Sometimes they just need to GO.
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NRAAS City Hall>Master Controller>Town>Advanced>Total Annihilation.
https://youtu.be/TIoBrob3bjI
WHAT?
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
⸸ A n a l ⛧ Na t h r a c h ⛧ D o c h e'l ⛧ D e'n m h a⸸
⸸A n a l⛧ Na t h r a c h ⛧ T i e r a⛧ N a t r a c h... ⸸
insert Beavis screenie - FIRE! FIRE!
The poll doesn't go into the reason so this poll includes:
It also just asked if you've ever done it on purpose - not if you regularly do it either. So you'd count as part of that 41%. You'd just have to have done it one time to qualify. Even if you've had millions of other Sims you never killed intentionally.
lol, also, they didn't ask Maxis how many Sims they killed off on purpose. Think of the Goths in TS1 that yard is full of dead Sims, or that lady in TS2 with all the dead husbands buried in the backyard, or the community grave yards in TS2 and TS3..full of dead Sims. Or the death token (mistake or not) they gave Bella in TS2. It's not like we are the only ones.
And we aren't the ones who built a game that had different colored ghosts in game for something to reach to get each color by drowning, starving, freezing, over heating, aspiration failure, etc. Or reward a teen Sim with a scholarship if they suddenly became an orphan. Or make it possible for teens to live on their own if suddenly parent Sims magically died, , degenerates aren't the players but those who make it possible, but I'm glad they did.
I wouldn't say to disregard surveys. You just have to know number of participants and how the participants were chosen to really be able to do anything with it.
This survey is pretty useless though.
To many variables to really get any kind of useful conclusions out of just the two questions asked. Even if you could prove that every participant is or was a Simmer at some point.
Personally I would put the percentage much higher. I once hosted a tread in TS3 which showed most simmers had at one time or another experimented wit ways to murder their sims. So from that I would say simmers are a pretty creative lot which means death by drowning may not really be the top choice. Not very scientific to base these things on anecdotal evidence. I would also not rely on Origin to provide the answers. Who can safely say how many players game offline.
As for being worried. Well yes at the time of writing my thread I was certainly concerned. However one of the joys of simming is the flexibility to safely experiment and I would say my niece and nephew, who both grew up with the sims, have turned out reasonably well adjusted individuals.
Incidentally I have never deliberately harmed a sim. I have lost two to accidents in 18 years of playing. Then again I did not start simming until my forties so perhaps I was already over my murderous instincts.
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
Sim enim est vita
In Sims 2 and 3 I was desperately trying to keep them living as it was tough fulfulling their needs withour mods.
In Sims 4 I am letting my own Sims die naturally but am pruning the Sims in-game to not actually live at all ....so does that count?
...grins evilly... slowly raises hand.
There's always something to be said for a good solid meteor strike or a det pack.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~