"GreenTurtle;c-17888596" wrote:
@Cinebar I agree with you there's a lot of focus on the simself, but there's something I don't understand about your argument.
The gender patch added a load of content for non LGBTQ+ players, as well. Plenty of hairstyles and clothes work great on either frame. There's no reason those items needed to be separate in the first place. They were unisex from the start, we just couldn't use them. You believe this update was unnecessary and/or even excessive.
But then, you do agree it's a good thing that they've updated and fixed the dark skin tones, as well as the insultingly bad base game hairs. How is that any different from the gender patch? All they've done is a added some simple to code options that you can completely ignore (you need to toggle a menu before you can even see them) and updated a huge set of assets.
Can you explain why one of these updates was unnecessary? Both add representation to minorities and both add content in the form of a bunch of assets.
I don't see the gender patch an update for players who wouldn't use it. Because let's look at some hair. Let's say a long hair style for male or female or whomever. Males sometimes have the sides shaved to shape the sideburn underneath that long lock on the side. Because they don't want to look too feminine as their own taste. So, just removing a boundary where Sims can switch hairstyles doesn't really reflect how that hairstyle is worn often. You do know if you toggle on the gender patch filters townies will dress and generate within those filters don't you? Even if you turn it back off just long enough to get a shirt or a hairstyle. So, it's good for the LGBTQ community in many respects but not so good if a person just wants to grab a hairstyle or a piece of clothing then turn it back off. The game goes ahead and starts generating those things on townies etc. But that might just be the lack of ability in TS4 to play the game as if we rule it, when really we don't.
I knew this thread would become all about different groups if I answered anyone and just didn't let my original post stand as it is. It's really not even about LGBTQ only that Maxis 'seems' to be only focused on the community rather than any other groups...and why has Simself become the motto of the game rather than the so called 'play with life' line. It is others who demanded I name some other groups and I knew once anyone or if I did this would dissolve into a thread about a wish list for groups or types of Sims (diverse) rather than the heart of the thread which still remains about Simself type gameplay vs any other type of gameplay. I resign myself to see we can't get past the forest for the trees.
But staying within
your disscussion but no other group has received so much attention and yes, I guess that can also be an argument for other groups but why are we even all scrambling to get our Simselves in a game where it didn't matter before? It's the theme of The Sims now, and frankly as I stated in the original post, seems to be all the game is about anymore.
