In The Sims you never really have to worry about taking a step back in life like downsizing to a smaller apartment or moving back in with your parents. I was wondering if you think EA will ever try to break away from this?

Things like a lack of career advancement, job uncertainty, and pay not scaling with rent hikes could be a neat twist. I feel like a lot of people use The Sims for a bit of escapism and things have gotten significantly more cartoony with The Sims 4 so I don’t really see it happening.

I could see them adding mental disorders or homelessness but I feel like they’d whitewash a lot of it. In the case of homelessness for example I could see them depicting it like camping or off the grid living.

Maybe one of the Sims rivals that’s being developed will tackle this? Who knows?

Some of this may have been implement to various degrees. I still mostly play The Sims 3. I’ve tried getting into 4 over the years but it’s never stuck for me and it’s been a while since my last attempt.

  • I'll be on ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, this feels a little like privilege wanting to roll play marginalisation, for funsies… 🙄

    I’ve been homeless, I am mentally an otherwise ill, I already know I’m never going to own a home to make my own or have any financial security, why on earth would I, or anyone else who has or is living this shit want to “play” at how distressing life already is for so many of us? And much more confusing, why would someone who hasn’t lived this shit, want to “play” at it? Really odd take…

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPMEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’m not trying to trivialize those things. I’m saying it could be interesting to have the option for something more real with how over the top a lot of the Sims has become.

      I mentioned things getting whitewashed because it’s not something I’d want played off as nothing or purely positive. I could see EA being tasteless and depicting homelessness as something like another eco living DLC.

      • I'll be on ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I’m not trying to trivialize those things

        Never said you were

        I’m saying it could be interesting to have the option for something more real with how over the top a lot of the Sims has become.

        Which reflects to me that you have never had these experiences yourself, hence what I did say - this is privilege wanting to roleplay as marginalised, which is pretty weird, to put it mildly.

        I mentioned things getting whitewashed because it’s not something I’d want played off as nothing or purely positive.

        But something partially positive? Any gamification of homelessness and poverty and other human suffering is whitewashing, your idea, at it’s core, is a whitewash.

        I could see EA being tasteless and depicting homelessness as something like another eco living DLC.

        So why would you ever want them (or any other company for that matter, that would do just as bad a job because this isn’t something anyone could do a good job at) to even try?

        Yeah, I can see no redeeming qualities to this idea.