Feedback from Japanese Simmers: Request to make shrine worship optional

@TamakiSakura84 I thank you for your kindness!

Japanese simmer sent an opinion to the official EA help, EA help encouraged me to post my opinion on the official forum as well.

The subject is "Request to make worship motion optional".
Perhaps we can influence the release date. I'm aware of that.
I'm not sure if this is technically possible, but how about a patch to deliver it?
We are waiting for EA officials to make some kind of good faith announcement to Japanese simmers about this whole mess, whether it's possible or not.

The discussion thread related to this deletion response has already been deleted. It may be deleted as well if the debate about right and wrong historical issues, participation in political arguments and attacks on them, or discrimination issues gets heated. Or they might be deleted for just discussing it. I think the standards are very serious.
This is a world forum. Non-Japanese are of course welcome to write on this forum. Please have a sober discussion so that our feedback can be long-lasting.

blossoms85, I read at the local forum that some people told EA Korea to contact its headquarters in the U.S. EA directly to get 'that thing' taken away. I heard that they even visited in person. There was a similar story in the local version article. How about try to contact EA Japan ?

@s1mszzang If I remember correctly, EA JAPAN withdrew from Japan a few years ago. So I think there are a few steps that need to be taken before our input can reach the EA people and get a response. I'm speculating. With that in mind, some people are sending their feedback to the US instead of the Japanese version of EA website.

If the sims4 development team respects the opinions of South Korea, then they should also respect the opinions of Japan.
It's unfair that shrine worship was unfairly removed.
As a Japanese, I was really sad and discouraged.
The development team should implement an optional feature in the game to switch religious content on and off.

As you can see from the my text, my own English is very poor. Discussions are one of my weakest areas. I've written some of my personal opinions and those of people who can't write in English forums in other disappeared threads.

Of course I have requests. But the main thing I wanted to say is that I am grateful to EA for making this pack. It's not all about protests.
I'm looking forward to playing in a Sims world inspired by our culture.
And we apologize to simmers around the world for the uproar. I hope you enjoy the Japanese landscape with the snowy mountains :)

"PriestessBizarre;c-17706108" wrote:

"Woo_Yukin;c-17706079" wrote:
The development team should implement an optional feature in the game to switch religious content on and off.

I think being able to turn religious content on and off would be a good option for all nationalities, all religions and all secular folx as well.

On that, I think we can all agree on.

"blossoms85;c-17706104" wrote:
As you can see from the my text, my own English is very poor. Discussions are one of my weakest areas.

I think your English has been very good. :)

> @Gordy said:
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> I think your English has been very good. :)

Thanks. But most of it was created on a translation tool. :D

"kumatarou;c-17706117" wrote:
@TamakiSakura84 Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@Sims team Please add to make shrine worship optional.
I'm very sad and angry that shrine worship has been erased.
Please don't erase Japanese culture.
Please listen not only to the opinions of Koreans but also to the opinions of Japanese.

This is my honest opinion.

As one of Korean myself, I would like to let you know that we know shrine is just culture. Isn't it true that Koreans travel to Japan the most and most of them visit the shrine? Even in one of the Sims community, we were so angry at the spread of the distorted facts. I'll show you what happend on the Local community site then.
Link (<--updated link)
Not only did they not listen to the Japanese, but they ignored the Korean people's opinions. I know that one of Korean community's manager sent his opinion to EA saying the opinion of the louder voice is not true, but they ignored it. I guess the louder voice won. I hope you don't think bad about Korea because of this. I would like to let you know that there were quite a few who didn't agree with the louder voices.

https://i.ibb.co/f99K8DW/Screenshot-20201029-021726-Chrome.jpg
Shrine disappeared completely

https://i.ibb.co/f99K8DW/Screenshot-20201029-021726-Chrome.jpg