LoveStruck Negative Thread 2.0

Wow first time using the EA forums and it is just…so bad. 🤦 Like their “always have to be constantly online just to play” launcher.

Anyway, yea, wow, the dating app gameplay and overall turn on-off system is just…so out of touch. They try to make this pack mature but they handle it with kid gloves.

I won’t state my political compass, but I will say this, they are so out of touch if they’re unaware the dating is the ONE THING you are allowed to be discriminatory, provided you’re polite and without malice about it. Yes, real life people factor in their selection criteria for a romantic and sexual partner partly on genetic traits, including, yes, skin colour and body type. A lot of couples have split up because one of them gets too fat and racks up a nice hospital bill, or loses confidence when their partner is suddenly toned and the gym bros/babes where their partner exercises are hitting on them. Some people are into redheads, some people are into blondes, some people are into curly, and some are into frizzy. Yes, people do that in real life. That’s how it is. Accept it.

And that doesn’t even include real life factors that are more rigorous such as religious affiliation (let’s be real, interfaith relationships are hard to navigate when kids are planned in the future), financial and social stability (number one cause of divorce is not infidelity; it’s money. Any half-baked adult active in the dating scene knows it’s a red flag to marry someone with low credit score/student debt/just different social station altogether and saying otherwise because “true love conquers all” is a liar and they know it), or even as simple as social cliques.

I hope not to get banned for this, but I feel like this was just far too ridiculous and unreal that I had to call them out on it. This is supposed to be a life simulator. Ignoring reality for the sake of delicacy is just…ugh.