More representation of indigenous cultures?
The other day I noticed one of the new necklaces for female Sims has a colour option that is the same as the Australian Aboriginal flag, it got me wondering if perhaps there should be more indigenous ...
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"StrawberryYogurt;c-17734001" wrote:"bella_goth;c-17733883" wrote:"Alexai;c-17733853" wrote:"Karon;c-17729302" wrote:"Icewolf;c-17729018" wrote:"Sharonia;c-17728866" wrote:
Not meaning to be offensive here but personally I'd rather they focus on improving the game play rather than focusing on inclusivity and representation all the time. None of this was needed in previous iterations of the Sims and people still managed to enjoy the games.
Yes, I agree totally. Representation is nice but it's not really needed at this point. I'd rather just that we keep this a simple game, without feeling the need to add every real life representation into it just because.
@Icewolf I'm pretty sure you're saying that because you're not the one lacking representation, darling.
Agreed! It seems to always be the case that the represented people are the ones decrying inclusivity as unimportant.
no it's because ea only puts the focus on representation rather than gameplay. if the game was in a good state people wouldn't really care about what's added but we can see ea intentions on representing everyone and their mom rather than focusing on the game itself because it's cheap and ez money. as if they gave a f#ck about us lol.
also, some people seems to think the sims should be this one realistic life simulator when it's not, it's a cartoony life simulator and it has enough fantastic elements to tell us once again that it's not a game to be taken seriously.
Exactly. The only color EA cares about is green (money). A lot of their diversity marketing ends up being pandering. Id love to see more cultures being included but imo its not a higher priority than gameplay. Of course someone will say why not both? Id love both too. But EA cant deliver that for me as it seems
they do try to do both things as seen in island living and snowy escape, however the content is so lacking that the main selling point of these packs is how beautiful they are and the "exotic" aspect of them. but the gameplay? island living didn't even had half the things island paradise delivered, and snowy escape has so many reused content it should be labeled winter eco lifestyle.
and the sentiments/lifestyles are glorified moodlets.
i wouldn't mind more cultural inspired content on the sims in fact i'd love native american stuff but i know it will be poorly done, people will complain, the budget spent on ""researching"" won't make up for the gameplay and we'll get yet another shallow but pretty world sold for 40$.
the sims biggest problem is ea, who allowed maxis to reuse a flawed engine for the main sims title, who won't even hire more people to work for the game, who will assign the minimal budget for them, who changed ts4 marketing from "smarter sims, weirder stories" to "the sims is my safe space" because it was evident the sims were dumber and the stories were repetitive. but what does ea do with these issues? focus highly on representation because they know getting a wider public will get them more sales while cleaning their company image altogether.
but i think people has a limit, i don't care if my culture is put perfectly on the game cuz at the end all sims will act the same, do the same and this "uniqueness" they couldn't deliver with gameplay and are trying to deliver with set dressing is nothing but a scam.
