Customizable Pronouns First Look

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18040222" wrote:

"WaytoomanyUIDs;c-18040179" wrote:
I really dont understand why people are getting bent out of shape about the pronouns. This will not affect your existing sims, you will not be forced to choose pronouns for them. They are not removing existing gameplay to add pronouns. And unlike what some have suggested in this thread, choosing pronouns is not somehow gay or straight erasure. Gender and sexuality are toitaly different things.

When a professional team of game developers decides to share work in progress with their player base I would like to think that they’re open to any constructive feedback that player base may want to give based on said WIP.
One can have 50 experts trying to come up with great ideas, but there’s still that user experience. We as a community are here to give feedback about this user experience since ultimately we are the ones who have been and still are investing time and money in this game.

No one here is getting bent out of shape about the inclusion of customizable pronouns. Some of us are critical about the execution of this feature and how this may affect future gameplay.
Our feedback should be a valuable aspect to the Sims team, because if it isn’t, they wouldn’t share WIPS with us.
If we don’t voice our concerns now it’ll be a lot harder to change things at a later stage.

This is what WIPS are for. Constructive Feedback.
And that’s what we should give right now. Constructive Feedback.
It’s that simple.

Unfortunately, the only feedback the developers seem to want to hear from us is positive feedback. Once they start hearing negativity coming from the players, they stop communicating with us. Or just flat out ignore our concerns and do what they intended to do from the beginning. I have a son who is gay, married to the love of his life and they are in the process of adopting a child together. He and I had a discussion about this just last week after he asked me if I still played Sims4. I told him about all the changes Maxis has made to be more inclusive of the LGBT community and he just laughed and shook his head. He said he has always felt the ability to play as himself has been in the game. He never felt left out or upset in any way because there wasn't a way to assign pronouns to certain Sims. But if this seems to be important to a lot of players, then perhaps this will be a nice addition to CAS. I would have preferred new gameplay content, to be honest. But all the pronouns do is add more script and does nothing to enhance the personalities of our Sims. The pronouns won't change a Sim's personality because only traits, hobbies, sentiments and likes/dislikes can do that. But as far as repairing the shallowness of what gameplay we do have, adding pronouns won't be of much help with that.

I get why this is important to a big segment of the player base. But at the same time, I have to ask when are the players looking for new gameplay content going to be heard? There hasn't been anything since the release of Cottage Living that has added new content that isn't just window dressing. It doesn't matter how many pairs of drapes you put on that window until you replace it with a new one because underneath those drapes or curtains it will always look the same. And that is how I feel about Sims4 right now. Sims4 is dressed to the nines but has nothing to do and nowhere to go. The same old grind every day with little to look forward to. I guess I need to go and find a couple of new gameplay mods to get me back into the game.