"Siladria;c-17274926" wrote:
Why do so many people see inclusivity as an agenda? Doesn't everyone have the right to see themselves represented in the media they consume? Why does this bother you guys so much? Like, to me that's not what makes the game's developers 'out of touch'.
Inclusivity isn't the problem. The problem is that someone at EA/Maxis with the power to make decisions thinks that inclusivity takes precedence over everything else. The Sims is a game, players have always made representative characters in their own games, even if they required CC to do it. It's nice of EA/Maxis to include more skin tones and different cultural items. Yet, in the end, the most important aspect of TS4 shouldn't be that. It should be to make sure that the company is producing a great game that people actually want to play.
The article that I read made it seem as if that person wanted to build a self-soothing simulator to help people to work through their issues and/or to 'get even'. If that is how some folk are using the game, more power to them. Yet, that's not how this series started and I really, really hope that's not where it will continue to go. For me, it's just about wanting to play a game.
For example, EA/Maxis spent an entire year revamping CAS so that clothes could be used with either gender. I appreciate the effort, but that time could have been spent on, say, an attraction system, likes/dislikes, fixing whims, or fixing the many bugs that keep cropping up in the game. After all of that effort, most of the clothing doesn't even look that good on the opposite gender.