Good new! The forum has custom avatars now!
Community AdminDivinylsFan as you already noticed and puzzleaddict highlighted, there's an annoying bug we are dealing with.
Due to caching issues, the avatars sometimes seemingly get reset, and currently the only fix is a server cache clear and restart.
We are waiting for engineering to fix the underlying issue so that this doesn't happen again.
Of note for your original point is that we are actually working on replacing the avatars available now with a mechanism for users to pick their own custom avatars in the future. It's still a bit out, but it's coming.
If we must have a generic avatar then may we at least have some Sims 3 ones, please?
There aren't any Sims 3 avatars.
And the culture or whatever it was that selected the male silhouette as the go-to during updates in the first place has not been addressed, nor has my offense at that been acknowledged as understood. When returning to the forum, my avatar this time had been assigned as a blue ... boy. I'd be interested to know what the demographic of players of this game is, because all of the tutorial and narrator videos I've seen have been female, possibly in that case it's been doubly assumed. It would be nice for us, female players, possibly the majority, to see an apology, which has not been said.
Community AdminDivinylsFan Noted regarding TS3 avatars.
Regarding the fallback default characters, it's not a deliberate choice that was in our hands, but pointing out the consequence to those that did make that choice is. Thanks for making me aware, I will be doing that next opportunity.
In the meantime, their team is working on addressing the bug so that we no longer see avatars reverting in the first place.
Meanwhile, our own team will continue to work towards a way to let users pick their own custom avatars in the future.
Lastly, while this forum is a community for all EA games and fans, Maxis did previously share some stats around the Simmers demographics. There was a discussion about it at the time here.
Thank you EA_Nils . I do appreciate your respectful 'listening' and intelligent empathy. It is nice to be in such environment, possible and surely will triumph in the private sector.
May you swim in Sims and live to be 100.
