Critics of the game tend to fall into two camps. There are those who say, 'Look at this stupid game. It sets up a pattern of endless climbing the social ladder to attain material things. There's no game that's done that. But Jenkins argues that the values built into a game don't have to be restrictive.
Men can kiss men, women can kiss women.
They decided not to show nudity or sex, only kissing. So The Sims, just like any other game, makes value judgments. You have to discover those through action. Even if two players are interacting through a crude medium and manipulating simple characters, sometimes that can serve to spark conversations about life as it's actually lived. Designing Women Part of the shift in the demographic of game players is the change in the number of women now playing, buying, and designing computer games.