"amaniaaa;c-17885562" wrote:
From my point of view, The Sims Team has indeed made some bad moves when it comes to some things in-game. When I heard that they are adding pronouns I had (and I still have) mixed feelings. It's great that they are expanding representations in-game but at the same time, they are neglecting many core things of a game.
I don't understand why they are focusing on adding pronouns (text in-game) that will take a lot of time and money when they could be focusing on more important things like improving already released packs or adding more gameplay features (babies, cars, etc.) and more settings options (lifespan, occult controls, etc.). The Sims 4 is a game that lacks a lot of gameplay and just changing the displayed text won't improve much.
This is why it's so difficult to talk about this. In game development they always have to take decisions to decide what they will spend their time working on. And because it's about representation it's really difficult to say to the community that "the game was not built for it" because people will just see that as Maxis not caring about certain types of people.
So now Maxis are probably thinking how they are going to be able to add pronouns when the game was built from the ground up to not have it so they have to spend who knows how many days, weeks, months changing their lines of code instead of them working on something else.
In my opinion, it's not worth it if it's going to require a lot of work. If they could find a way to streamline the process, then maybe. I don't think people asking for pronouns are realizing what a huge undertaking it is if it would be done manually.
