User blog comment:LostInRiverview/Thoughts on the end of Maxis - and other/@comment-1519608-20100617162454

Response to Jsps13 -

Your comment about the game being a satire reminded me of something I had thought when writing that I didn't actually include. My thought was basically that when you start putting advertisements in the game, or have prolific product placement, that really destroys what The Sims is, in my mind. If my sim should "get a headache", why should I be forced to drive them to the supermarket to buy Tylenol? Why should I be encouraged to have my sims eat at McDonalds? What I'm getting at is what you hinted at - when you start throwing all this into the game, you make the Sims exactly as we are. Maybe I don't want to simulate our particular society - maybe I like a world where my Sims don't have to buy name-brand clothing, eat at chain restaurants, or buy name-brand pharmaceuticals. I happen to enjoy gardening and fishing with my sims - what will happen to that when all of a sudden, the only thing the Sims want to eat is McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I don't want the Sims to be like real people, I just want them to be whatever I want them to be.