"TOLKIEN;c-17646931" wrote:
Bu your right, this also comes down to numbers since you brought them up. I'd love to see how many of the players actually are POC and how many who are not use POC assets. The fact is EA does track game asset usages (if you have usage sharing enabled) and I'd LOVE to see what their stats are on this topic, but the fact is the majority of CC free sims I see on the Gallery as not POC - and honestly that can be an annoying issue in itself for those of us who want more diversity in our neighborhoods (maybe its a Canadian thing lol?) and often had to go make my own POC/asian/indian sims because the options on the gallery as very limited. Otherwise I have to scroll and scroll and scroll to find Sims who aren't white or black, asian sims are few between let alone Arabic or Indian.
If we are to argue for more hairstyles I'd like to see more for them too.
Unfortunately Maxis/EA is a machine, they take numbers and the machine crunches them and I suspect that if the numbers show that very few people use AFRO hairstyles or darker skintones, ect than that tells the designers where to focus their resources aka budget.
Actually, they've made more afro-textured hairs as the series has progressed because of the demand for them. The problem isn't really with the EP, GPs, and SPs. It's with the base game because people shouldn't have to pay extra for a couple basic hairs for their afro-textured/black sims.
There are more than 30 female hairs in the base game, but only about 3 are afro-textured. Two are horrible as they are/look like the below:
Credit to Yoko2112 for the image http://i.imgur.com/hwHMrDZ.png
That means that there is pretty much
one decent arguable afro-textured hair (shoulder length braids) in the base game out of the more than 30 hairs for women. EA has recognized that this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
