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Originally Posted by MageB420666
it's called marketing.
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That doesn't make any sense. Maxis would have to develop two separate products. Two different marketing campaigns, two different development cycles, some stores wouldn't carry the adult version...
If anyone is getting any of the direction of their moral compass from a video game then it is already too late. If one doesn't already know by the time they get married (or of an age where you could get married) that marital infidelity is not a good thing...well, then the trouble has just begun. I can see more sense in the worry over GTA style violence, but even then I think the impact is more related to poor parenting. I don't think any kid thought that "kill all the Haitians", the controversial out-of-context quote from GTA:VC, was a good idea. If I was Haitan I would have been more ticked off at being one of the stereotyped crime gangs rather than that stupid quote. Sure, we can find incidents where kids commited acts of violence and/or stupidity after seeing them presented elsewhere, but this has been happening for a long time. My grandfathers brother almost cut grandpa's head off with an axe playing soldiers during WWI. My Mom and her friends jumped off a roof onto a mattress using an umbrella as a "parachute" after seeing a movie in the 1940's about US Army paratroopers. My friends and I used a concrete blocks to build a tottering "cave" after seeing the first Indiana Jones movies, we were lucky it didn't come down on our heads.
The Sims is a life simulator and I applaud the realism. It's unfortunate but true that 1 in 5 first marriages will end in divorce. It's also unfortunate but true that marital infidelity is a serious issue in relationships today (what remains to be seen is to what extent. the numbers are all over the place). I'd be more worried about the role models whose public examination of infidelity has brought the spotlight on the issue. Bill Clinton, Rudy Guiliani, Kobe Bryant and Prince Charles to name a few.