I had a look at TS2 skins yesterday to see if they were as bad as people say TS4 skins are, and yes, they are. Have to be honest. Some are too orange around the hairlines, checks, (lower jaw) and across the breastbone on the neck and the cheeks are whiter/lighter than they should be. But I don't recall all the backlash about skins back then. I have never liked most of Maxis skins including those of European desent. In all the games. I really don't like those in TS4 because in TS2 they are too brown, like a tan, and in TS4 they are too yellowish, greenish. I have always thought custom creators have always done a better job on skins and why I stopped using Maxis skins twenty years ago and used modder skins. And I see there are still complaints about the ones they did release in the patch. They have never done an excellent job on skins or makeup in my opinion. No offense to them but it's not just black skintones but all of them that should have been improved all these years. The one thing I did like about TS4 was they did create a darker skin tone for black Sims than the tan, orangey tone in TS2 which was bascially a tanned Sim with orange tones.