More representation of indigenous cultures?

"temporalgod;c-17730669" wrote:

"Scobre;c-17730273" wrote:
Even on EA standards, EA Sports has more diversity than the Sims does and people wonder why those games tend to sell better than this franchise, simple inclusive customer base. But I find those that don't want culture tend to not want new Simmers anyways which is dangerous especially with the pandemic. Existing customer base isn't going to be enough to fund EA's pockets plain and simple. Some of already divorced the franchise years ago, so catering to people not wanting change is a lost cause. Thus why the Sims 3 got remained broken. People weren't willing for that game to change either.

this might sound weird coming from a straight male, sports are a massive turn off, especially when it comes to videogames, I don't how some people could watch that garbage or play those repetitive games.

"Scobre;c-17730317" wrote:

You assume Sims team isn't culturally diverse. Also it wasn't just Japanese culture, but Korean culture too that there was some feedback and honestly glad it was. They don't even do the American culture properly. XD All they represent is the hipster style for this so called "American" representation and oh there is an even bigger backlash for American representation too.

, I'm sorry for stereotyping but to outsiders like me those are the only Americans these days.

LOL I know quite a few women who like sport style games too. Rocket League is quite popular right now even though not an EA game of course. With the small towns it does feel like that. Not all of us live under a rock thankfully. But yeah that stereotyping is ruining the franchise. It does feel like those are the only two things the game is catering to and being that niche will keep a lot of potential future customers away. You summed up Sims 4 direction really well. I just know the bay area where the studio is more diverse than that. Sims community is more diverse than that too. I just don't understand the censorship of the Sims games these days. They are playing too safe. I want them to start taking risks with gameplay and they have started to but still a long way to go to get to the level of risk E-Teen games are taking these days. Gaming has changed and sad when EA can't even keep up with the soccer mom's Disney is doing these days which already has the reputation of being behind in diversity. There is a comic that has been shown with many of my state jobs that sums up what EA is doing with their games which is equality but they need to get to the equity level to reach more customers.
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