Summary
- Sims 4 players question why their Sims' schools are filled with strangers instead of friends or family.
- The recently released High School Years expansion allows players to explore Sims' school lives.
- Players find it frustrating that their Sims cannot form lasting friendships at school without resorting to mods.
A Sims 4 player has posed an intriguing question about the educational system set up across neighborhoods in the game's universe. Specifically, this player has pointed out that students in The Sims 4 never seem to go to the same schools as their friends or family members, and many fans of the game are wondering why.
At its launch in 2014, The Sims 4's virtual people could only be monitored at home or when visiting each other's houses or public lots, like parks and libraries. However, some expansions for the life simulator game have allowed players to take a deeper look into the lives of their Sims outside their home-based activities or nearby excursions. In the summer of 2022, The Sims 4: High School Years expansion was announced and released, allowing players for the first time to go inside their teenage Sims' schools, where they attend daily classes and make memories with teachers and friends.
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More than two years after its release, players report some missed opportunities with The Sims 4's high school experience. Specifically, players like Reddit user somebodyelse1107 are questioning why their teenage Sims' schools always appear fully populated by randomly generated townie characters. This is an issue that seems to occur even when there are plenty of other teens available and attending high school in the same neighborhood, and in some circumstances, even within the same household.
Sims 4 Players are Still Frustrated Over High School Issues
Despite publisher EA's promise on the expansion's official website that players can "Dance the night away at prom and celebrate your graduation ceremony with family and friends," there exists a lot of frustration in The Sims 4 player community over making friends at school. Even players who have accepted that their Sims are attending a school with a bunch of strangers are included in this frustration, as randomly generated Sims who build up their relationship levels with player-controlled teenage Sims tend to simply disappear from their schools' rosters, preventing teens from forming any long-lasting close personal friendships or romantic connections.
To curb this problem, several players have suggested downloading school mods for T he Sims 4. In addition to mods that let players choose which students will be attending the same school as their chosen teenage Sims, there are other fun mods that players can use to make the college application process more engaging, introduce field trips and after-school activities, and extend High School Years' in-school experience to younger children in elementary school. Still, many players seem disappointed that they still have to rely on mods for a satisfying school experience, with one player remarking that the developers "should have assumed people would want to see the Sims they actually play interacting at school, not their one controlled Sim and a bunch of strangers."
The Sims 4
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 70 /100 Critics Rec: 26%
- Released
- September 2, 2014
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Maxis
- Publisher(s)
- Electronic Arts
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Cross-Platform Play
- Xbox, PlayStation, and computer versions of Sims 4 are all separate games incompatible with each other
- Cross Save
- no
