Anyone else feel like BitLife is what present-day Sims would be if the age demographic never shifted to cater towards younger players? It seems like with every main iteration of The Sims, EAxis keeps trying to appeal more and more to a younger audience (I'm not saying the original Sims game was M/A rated, it's just that The Sims 4 is very saccharine compared to the previous games i.e. the juice keg in TS4 University is literally juice while in TS3 is was euphemism for beer). This makes me miss spin-off games such as the MySims series which was specifically made to attract kids.
I wish EA did more to cater towards their older audience. Despite being purely text based, I always have a blast playing BitLife. It's so funny and engaging. I cannot say the same for The Sims 4, though. I know rebranding The Sims 4 to cater to an older audience would be a real risky move since so many fans I see are around 12-16 (idk the official demographics, this is just anecdotal). I hope EAxis considers doing spin-off games again and creates a separate series of simulation games that older fans can enjoy. Does anyone feel the same way?
Edit: Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong section. I wasn't sure if I could put this in Feedback since I mentioned another game
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LOL d_o_n_g is censored tf
i too think the game has become too childish. i'm not talking about explicit content but sometimes it feels like ea treat their players like toddlers, like when dora says "wheres the map" or something and it's right there man it feels literally the same.
i don't know what bitlife is but i would prefer if the sims had a more mature and sophisticated tone rather than a silly one. i really don't think the sims games were meant to be for kids. it's a game about life and life's hard my dudes.
The "childishness" of this game also explains why the Sims 4 seems so easy compared to other games. Keeping your sim happy is not really a problem at all while in previous games I was constantly sending my sims to work/school while in horrible moods because it was so difficult to managed a household.
Bitlife is an app that is a text-based life simulation game. It's not 100% serious and is pretty silly but it has a lot of cool features that I wish were present in TS4 (i.e. signing a prenup before you get married that your fiancée can either accept or refuse). It's free, I suggest you try it out.
And yes d-o-n-g is censored
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since devs have the excuse of ts4 scrapped online game and bla bla bla, we had to believe them and hope ts5 doesn't end up with the same kind of limited engine & flawed coding. so now ts4 is a shallow game where we have to pretend our gameplay rather than play it. i believe devs are able to kinda fix the engine especially when it has +6 years but we don't know if they don't do it cuz ea has them on a thin line with packs, or because they just don't want to/can't do it.
the game is easier also because people complains otherwise. due to this game getting away from its main purpose, it has gathered a lot of different fans and now devs can't deliver enough for any of them so of course the community is very divided. devs ignoring our feedback doesn't help either.
@bellagoth_ Yes, I've noticed this, too. Usually, the ones to give EA the benefit of the doubt every time they release a crappy pack or update are not much older than 14. And I also think that it wouldn't be in EA's best interest to market a future online Sims game towards kids. The team doesn't havea good track record with dealing with "creeps".
I commented in a previous post I made that EAxis' biggest mistake was getting rid of their spin-off franchises. The Sims community is way too diverse to pin point what gameplay the community wants (every "upcoming pack survey" is evidence of that). Maybe if big updates weren't so few and far in between and the Sims Team were more transparent about future development, this wouldn't be a huge problem. And, yes, it doesn't help that EA's solution to dealing with too much feedback is to listen to no feedback.
I'm hoping that with the launches of new simulation games like Little Sim World and Paralives, there will finally be a stable contenders in the life-sim genre. And I hope more developers try their hand at making these types of games as well.
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i also loved the sims spin offs like castaway, the urbz, the sims medieval etc. yes they had their flaws but you know what? they were spin offs NOT the main game so it was more forgiving. i can see the reason they stopped doing them, they flopped on sales. but instead of stopping doing them why not improving them?? for example the reason sims medieval flopped was because of the limitations, rabbit holes & lack of replayability. but a good portion of people loved the game and many folks are asking for a medieval pack to be in ts4.
the thing i dislike the most about ts4 are its developers, yes you may think i'm being heartless but the difference between the original developers and the newest ones is huge. devs used to have a clear idea on their mind, used to have ambitions, creativity and most importantly, the skills. the only thing they didn't have was enough technology. but now? all these devs do is making excuses, victimizing themselves, mocking their players and also ignoring their feedback. of course i am assuming because we never know what's behind the department but this idea is what they show us.
i'm also expecting good competition on the simulation field. i expect that devs use this competitors as motivation to improve the game.
but i hope they abandon the online gamemode idea, and i hope ts5 won't be another childish game.
hahah right? the censor on the forums is too much, just look how they censored d_o_n_g too, and in the game, names like hell are also censored. there's this thread talking about it https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/982452/game-saying-hicks-is-a-disallowed-word/p1
Also children know what beer is, there's no need to hide it. Especially not when woo-hoo is a central mechanic XD
Oh and whether you buy a sack of suckers or a bag of lollipops depends on where you live.
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