LoveStruck Negative Thread 2.0
This is a 2.0 from the other thread
Forum Discussion
Wow first time using the EA forums and it is just…so bad. 🤦 Like their “always have to be constantly online just to play” launcher.
Anyway, yea, wow, the dating app gameplay and overall turn on-off system is just…so out of touch. They try to make this pack mature but they handle it with kid gloves.
I won’t state my political compass, but I will say this, they are so out of touch if they’re unaware the dating is the ONE THING you are allowed to be discriminatory, provided you’re polite and without malice about it. Yes, real life people factor in their selection criteria for a romantic and sexual partner partly on genetic traits, including, yes, skin colour and body type. A lot of couples have split up because one of them gets too fat and racks up a nice hospital bill, or loses confidence when their partner is suddenly toned and the gym bros/babes where their partner exercises are hitting on them. Some people are into redheads, some people are into blondes, some people are into curly, and some are into frizzy. Yes, people do that in real life. That’s how it is. Accept it.
And that doesn’t even include real life factors that are more rigorous such as religious affiliation (let’s be real, interfaith relationships are hard to navigate when kids are planned in the future), financial and social stability (number one cause of divorce is not infidelity; it’s money. Any half-baked adult active in the dating scene knows it’s a red flag to marry someone with low credit score/student debt/just different social station altogether and saying otherwise because “true love conquers all” is a liar and they know it), or even as simple as social cliques.
I hope not to get banned for this, but I feel like this was just far too ridiculous and unreal that I had to call them out on it. This is supposed to be a life simulator. Ignoring reality for the sake of delicacy is just…ugh.
You are so right! And now that you mention it, I would love for there to be money/income versions to what you are attracted to (although there might be under one of the categories, I can't say that I looked all that hard for it).
Interfaith of course hard to do in a game with no religion, but the occult-part would be a good substitute. Coming from different worlds could also have been made a factor (maybe my sim thinks those Sulani-sims are the hottest thing in the world, but those people from Del Sol Valley are just so snobbish). There are so many things they could have done with that, but they went with the color of someone's clothes. 🤨Moreover, I advise that the cart button must be destroyed and that these forums need to be improved!
World-based TOTO would have been interesting!
But there definitely is one for "Broke" and I think also for "Wealthy".
BTW I like your improvised signature 🙂
Yes, I saw that one too later, so I guess I was too hasty when it came to financial information. Seems even that wealthy is more balanced than it is in the club-system (now if they could update that so that the two match... but I guess that's expecting too much).
And yes, we do what we can with icons and signatures. Until they make me one, I'll make my own. I miss everyone's icons, so I hope more people catches on instead of waiting.
So true, in so many ways. Should I be looking for a date, I have a right to say no to somebody for any reason - and they have a right to say no to me. Nobody's obliged to be attracted to all of my qualities equally. Some people just turn out to be jerks, you know?
Black hair, blue eyes, purple clothes... man, it's a lot for that to be as important on your date as 'Young Adult' and 'Clumsy' and 'Wealthy'.
Heckaroonies, even if somebody IS my type in every way, I still have the right to say no!
