"Idontrcall;c-16735123" wrote:
I, personally, don't want it in my game. But if they add it, that's fine.
I worry about the animations. Already most animations are on the weak side in Sims 4 (the swoops to make the bed for example). Will the disabled sim stand to swoop the bed, will the wheelchair automatically appear by the bed when they awake and then they swoop the bed made while magically sitting in the wheel chair? Will someone assist the disabled sim into the wheel chair and then swoop the bed made for the disabled sim?
That's just one example.
I also worry about how a sim gets disabled. As others have asked, is it from birth? An accident or disease? What about the simmers doing a legacy and their heir is all of a sudden stricken with a disability they don't want for their legacy? Toggles to opt out? What if they want disabilities but they just don't want their legacy heir to have one. Will there be a magical cure in the Sims world that is not available to us in the real world? That doesn't seem fair, either. It seems almost disrespectful.
Legacy players should have nothing to worry about -- from what I gather disabled Sims will be fully player-enabled, similar to the gender options for creating transgender Sims. And they could program the game to not auto-generate disabled Sims. Maybe a secondary trait system similar to the purchasable and reward traits; that could even be used for "normal" Sims as well to give additional traits to fill out their personality.
This isn't going to be coming anytime soon; maybe it never comes to Sims 4 but is part of a hypothetical Sims. They'll likely consult with experts in the disability field as well as actual disabled people before going forward. As long as it's completely optional like the gender patch (I don't create that many transgender Sims but I use the pregnancy options to create Sims that can't have biological children so they adopt) I'm okay with it. More gameplay options are always good; just because I don't use a feature doesn't mean that no one should have access to it.
