Disabilites, Maybe?

I would personally love it if they'd add disabilities in the game. I love everything that makes my game seem more real to me and disabilities are a real thing. I'd enjoy playing with really different kind of sims (after a while they all seem the same, because we have limited amount of careers and all the sims are same height and we only have 3 slots to build a personality etc. - skin tone and hairstyles and body mass doesn't really make a difference to me, as they do not irl).
I'd love to see my sim parents having a child with some form of disability, or that while at work you could have an accident and need to use walking cane/wheelchair for a while/forever. I'd love to see more than just erratic/gloomy/hotheaded personalities. How about one that causes dazed moodlets every now and then?
I'd love to see blindness and the need for a service dog! There's so many opportunities here for my games that if this was a pack I'd totally buy it. I'd love to build wheelchair friendly lots.
And for those who wouldn't want this in the game, I totally get you. There could be an option eg. to buy with aspiration points a cure for whatever disability you have if you'd like to reverse the change.

"adduapina;c-17167973 wrote:

And for those who wouldn't want this in the game, I totally get you. There could be an option eg. to buy with aspiration points a cure for whatever disability you have if you'd like to reverse the change.

I totally understand why you want disabilities but that ^ “having a cure like buying aspiration points” could be really offensive in game.

That would be trivialising someone’s condition and I think it would be quite upsetting watching your sim self be cured of a disability instantly and easily whereas in the real world you are still stuck with it wishing “If only it was that easy in real life”

I agree if they are going to insist on giving us this, then there needs to be an opt out but I don’t think it could be as simplistic as an aspiration reward. That’s what I mean when I said earlier, there is no way the game could do disabilities justice. This is a game.

It's always been such a complex issue. I'd love to be able to have my condition in the game so I can portray myself accurately, but at the same time I can 100% understand all the concerns posted here. If they did add anything to this capacity then making it optional would most likely be the best way to go, so those who want it can use it and those who want to get away from that sort of thing can. I use mod traits that serve the purpose I want pretty well.

My main issue though is that I wouldn't trust the current team of developers with something like this. After seeing them handle other things in a less than efficient fashion (not listening to the community in certain cases, constant technical hiccups) I don't think they'd be able to pull this off in a suitable way. I can also see how this element of real life wouldn't fit with the rest of the game's less serious atmosphere. The game isn't mature enough to really handle this kind of thing on an official level.

Maybe if they invented unique conditions for Sims that aren't present in real life they could get around some concerns, I don't know.

"MidnightAura;c-17168000" wrote:

"adduapina;c-17167973 wrote:

And for those who wouldn't want this in the game, I totally get you. There could be an option eg. to buy with aspiration points a cure for whatever disability you have if you'd like to reverse the change.

I totally understand why you want disabilities but that ^ “having a cure like buying aspiration points” could be really offensive in game.

That would be trivialising someone’s condition and I think it would be quite upsetting watching your sim self be cured of a disability instantly and easily whereas in the real world you are still stuck with it wishing “If only it was that easy in real life”

I agree if they are going to insist on giving us this, then there needs to be an opt out but I don’t think it could be as simplistic as an aspiration reward. That’s what I mean when I said earlier, there is no way the game could do disabilities justice. This is a game.

I undestand your point totally. But it's a game; not real life (thankfully) and that was the first thing to come to my mind - because some people don't want to use cheats and such. I hope no one is offended by the suggestion, and by no means did I mean to be disrespectful to anyone. <3

Still I have to disagree on what you said about "if it only was that easy in real life" - though I want my game to be realistic, I still want it to be a game. A game I can control and make my own with all the stories I want to tell. If we already have Young Again -potion, it could make me really sad 'cos I can't have that irl and I'm getting old. But it doesn't do that and you know why? Because it's a fantasy world that we want to enjoy and play, not real life. I think everyone (with or without any condition) understands that.

Toggle option would be best of all ofc, but since we don't have that for eg. occults I find it hard to believe it would work for this subject either.

As far as I am aware (and it's not 100% clear) that the only way a sim could be disabled whenever disabilities are added is if you CREATE one in CAS. So no born sims with disabilities or no 'workplace' or 'home accidents' unless they want to have temporary disabilities as well (ie broken arm/leg)

While I would love for full gameplay featuring disabilities in the future (and agree with things stated above - that putting it behind a pay wall would be bad, and that making it "curable" would be bad, but it should also be optional for a variety of reasons) I would actually be okay if, at least for the time being, they did just release some deco/cosmetic stuff that doesn't impact gameplay. It could be a sort of stop-gap or similar.

Obviously full gameplay would need to be more in-depth. But if, for now, they were to release some "prosthetics" skins with options for prosthetic arms and legs, some eyepatches, options for "glass" eye recolors that are a little shinier and don't move as much (and don't have to match the corresponding eye, though my best friends' eyes also just naturally don't match, so maybe that should be an option anyway), and hearing aids for sims to wear. I realize it'd be disappointing that it wasn't a complete experience and instead just a cosmetic difference, but I do still feel like it would be a welcome addition. Especially as it would be a lot less work than all the new interactions and animations needed to make even just physical disabilities (disregarding mental disabilities, which would be more complicated still) part of gameplay.

I'd love a full experience, for sure. But I wouldn't say no to the deco objects and accessories being available even if they couldn't add gameplay right away.

"MidnightAura;c-17165582" wrote:
@MadameLee I would rather not, as that would be revealing what I suffer from and we aren’t supposed to talk about that here anyhow.

The sims is far too utopia like and happy- of course it would be trivialised. Are they going to realistically portray how a depressed person feels? How they sometimes can’t get up in the morning? Are they going to portray the agony people feel in wheelchairs due to a physical disability? (Mine isn’t physical but for example I have a friend who uses a wheelchair and she really struggles. Not to mention the impact it has on her mental health. Can they potray that realistically? Of course they can’t. I am 100% confident they cannot accurately represent my illness and again the impact that has on my mental health.

If this goes ahead I will be horrified- I play the sims to escape my troubles in real life, not to see them be used as entertainment and a quick buff. But do I see it happening? Perhaps. Anything to pat themselves on the back and play the inclusive card.

I completely agree you.

okay my first answer is a bit tongue in cheek but my honest opinion is I don't want mental illnesses in the game. I have anxiety but don't want my sims to also have anxiety. I don't think it'll be fun gameplay for my sim to be stuck in their room all day because they're having a panic attack.

I personally think mental illnesses should be left to mods.

I think that they should incorporate wheelchairs but they don't even give the option to adjust height so I doubt they would go that far. I feel like they have left the mental health game play to mod creators so people can choose if they want to add that. Instead of actually giving us the ability to create sims with these struggles, I think they should give us new careers and game play options such as being and/or calling a therapist. If they add University (which I reeeeallly hope they do), I would see these new careers having a way to be introduced.

if you went such content why not rely on downloading custom content or mods as mention because you need to realise that not all players might not went this in game, as a player i clearly do not went disabilatys since i play the sims4 to escape real life even do i am a player i voted for the laundry day sp because that was on my wented list.