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While there isn’t any ersatz social media implementation, the suggestion of its inclusion is obvious. Players do that by increasing their fans through such notoriety-building activities as club appearances and modeling jobs. In that game, the goal is to go from the E-list to the A-list. One of the first notable games to employ this mechanic was Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a free-to-play mobile game released in 2014 as part of the grand Kardashian plan to appear in every part of our lives. Though the road has been well traveled before The Sims chose to walk it. However, the player as an influencer, wherein a game asks the player to increase a made-up follower count as a way to advance, is a somewhat newer inclusion into games.
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Last month’s breakout hit Spider-Man on PS4 even includes a fictional Twitter feed of sorts that follows the web-slinger’s antics in a pretty clever way. Social media has been slowly but surely encroaching into many games over the past ten years, even if it’s not a main focus of the narrative. And it’s actually far from the first to cast the player in the role of an aspiring influencer (an existentially haunting phrase if there ever was one). The Sims isn’t the only franchise that has included social media into its gameplay. “No matter a Sim’s claim to fame, they’ll be able to attend exclusive parties with the stars, outrun starstruck fans, truly experience the VIP lifestyle of their dreams and more.”
bask in the limelight as an inspiring influencer, livestreaming every lavish moment and giving other Sims maximum #FOMO, or even by gaining worldwide acclaim in their current career,” EA said in an announcement. 16, is all about putting your character in the shoes of a social influencer, hell-bent on inspiring jealousy and self-confidence issues on all who scroll through their feed. It's no wonder game development is tapping into the modern rash of entrepreneurial influencers. It often taps into a player's own fantasies of what they might want their lives to be and grants them some version of a different, possibly better, life. Gaming, on many levels, is an escapist medium. The math and the serotonin kick is still the same. Instead of gaining points in power, money or prestige through force, deception or justice, players gain points in a fictional follower count. In this gaming trend, being an influencer who creates wealth out of amassing followers has become a shorthand for yesteryear’s rewards. The rise of YouTube has buoyed a rise of influencers that has instilled a new sense of success and achievement in those who grew up watching PewDiePie and Markiplier do what they love as a job and make millions. It seems only natural that video games would tap into this new vein of generational aspiration. But in the upcoming Sims 4: Get Famous expansion, the developers at EA’s Maxis studio are ready to simulate society's contemporary obsession with becoming an influencer. Of course, in those early days of the internet, social media hadn’t developed into the sometimes terrifying, privacy-stealing behemoth it is now. It’s often easy to forget that “Sims” is short for “simulation,” but that’s just what the increasingly complex game has attempted to do since its first release in 2000. Inviting players to live the social media influencer life has definitely become a recent video game bandwagon.
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