Surprised that since the news broke yesterday no one here has mentioned it, is EA banning it? I'm an avid Sims 4 player and was shocked to learn that the Saudi Arabia government (along with two other investment groups) is poised to acquire and privatize EA as soon as next week. Is anyone else concerned about what this could mean for the game?? Specifically cc, which I could see being banned from the game to force players to buy packs instead.
Thoughts?
That would be the end of EA, a country that bans most of their games would not know what to do with it. It would just be Elon Musk and Twitter all over again. Billionaires with too much money buying things they don't understand the success of, and ruining it.
With any luck IP's like the sims and many others in EA's lockbox would get sold in a few years to people capable of doing something with it after EA gets destroyed from within with all their best people leaving, IF this deal goes through. I would hope EA is smarter than this, or has any kind of care for the people they employ and the legacy they build.
Would that money be worth seeing all they worked on get destroyed? There is no question about that after all when the buyer is a country that bans most of your games.
I heard the news today that EA is considering a buyout from at least a couple of anti-diversity financial groups. I hope it isn't true.
If it's true, and if this buyout goes through, it could be the end of The Sims franchise for me.
I have over 6800 hours of playtime in The Sims 4 alone. I have played with a large diversity of households and individual Sims. I've enjoyed it.
I don't want a Sims game where every Sim falls within a narrow set of approved guidelines.
Yes the money is what I was getting at with getting rid of cc (not mods so much), that it could become a massive cash grab to fund things we definitely don't want funded. Since the game is currently banned in Saudi Arabia I'm not sure they'd care much about censoring in-game content (worldwide, that is) but hopefully that doesn't happen either!
"What would happen to mods" is about the last concern on my mind, tbh- EA's supported mods while also aggressively monetizing the game all this time, after all. I'm much more concerned for what such an acquisition would mean for the game's LGBTQ+ content. Not to mention I'm not keen on funding human rights abuses (more than we all get stuck doing simply by existing under modern capitalism, anyway.)
I've heard Pixelade mention this but not sure how this will influence the future of the game. TS4 is banned in Saudi Arabia, so them to buy it means someone there is very naughty. If this means we will finally get an Aladdin inspired world, complete with pet tiger, I am all for it. Fingers crossed they won't ban the in game crop tops.
