"BookBear;c-17885648" wrote:
"logion;c-17885611" wrote:
"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.
At this point all I'm asking for is them in TS5. No matter how much I want something doesn't change the fact that it would be difficult and EA doesn't pay the bills for "difficult". With TS4 it's just another thing on the list of "working on it" but I still have hope for the next game.
With a new game it should be possible.
I would like for you to be able to have They/Them to the sims4, but the more I think of it, the more I'm starting to realize that so much in the game is built around He/She, when a baby is being born, the game says "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" How does generating outfits work? How does relationships work? Is it okay to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend?
The list of things that needs to be configured is starting to get really long... we are not talking about a small patch anymore, this is starting to sound like a huge base game update.
