"SimsLovinLycan;c-17458528" wrote:
"Scobre;c-17458271" wrote:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1250200733569273856
Translation: "Even though this game is rated T for Teens, we're scared of those parents who'll buy their kid any game they whine hard enough for, even if it's rated M and full of blood and guts and cuss words. So, we took out as much of the stuff that would get them mad at us as we possibly could, because we're big chickens."
You know, the more you bend to these people, the worse they get. They won't stop until every scrap of fun and excitement is scoured from every form of mass media to make low-effort parenting more viable. They complain about violence and mature content in games, the industry gives them a ratings system to show them what ages each game is most appropriate for. They ignore the ratings and buy the games with the objectionable content anyway because they're too weak-kneed to tell their kids "no" or have a "well, it's a video game, and video games are toys for kids" mentality and don't even pay attention to the rating and content information on the box/website, then complain about the objectionable content...again. You just can't make these people happy unless you make every game an edutainment game where all you do is spell G-Rated words and solve math problems (none of which have 666, 4, or 13 as an answer, so as not to upset the superstitious)...and then the kids and adult gamers will be miserable because everything is Reader Rabbit and Number Munchers...
I wouldn't be surprised if that was a direction they were considering for TS5; a nice, safe edutainment game with no sharp edges at all...You know, for kids.
Addendum: Sorry for the high sodium levels in this post, but those "censor the crud out of everything because my kids might see it" and "just tone everything down so I don't have to talk to my kids about what they watch/read/play and can plunk them down in front of anything unattended without thinking" types really burn my biscuits, and have since I was 9 years old. Even in grade school, I knew that it was the parent's job to check if something was O.K. for the kid to be exposed to and talk to them about what they watched/played/read, not the media's job to make everything squeaky clean so parents didn't have to do their job.
Oof, I couldn't have said this better myself. When I started playing TS2 I was probably considered a little too young being between 10 -13 ( can't remember how old I was when I started playing it) But my parents were the ones who gave me the go-ahead to play the game because they carefully read the box and deemed it fine for me and my sister to play with supervision because my sister is 3 years younger than me. Granted my parents did the right thing and checked first, unlike some other parents. Who'll buy a game, become shocked at how "violent it is" then scream at the game store or the publisher about how the game is "corrupting society" and then the "mum groups" arise enmass and start making demands. XP
