Sims 4 made my gay Sims straight
In Sims 3, if you made gay Sims, they pretty much always stayed gay - even if you stopped playing them for a while. You could move on to another house, play for a while, and when you came back, your Sims didn't change preference, even if they were seeing someone else.
In Sims 4, I've noticed that if I don't play my gay households for awhile, when I return, they've usually started relationships with the opposite sex. One Sim, in particular, I started him in a gay relationship. They broke up. I didn't play him for a while and when I went to check on him, he was with a female. I've seen this happen with a few other Sims as well. Another Sim gay I frequently play with often flirts with women. I didn't make him bi. I made him gay.
I can't begin to tell you how upsetting this forced lifestyle is. Why does the game do this? Why can't the game determine sexual preference and stick with it, like ALL the Sims games before it? Not only does the game appear to be intolerant of gay Sims, it's forcing it's own agenda on them. I RULE? Not if my gay Sims don't stay gay. I created this Sim, I wanted him gay. How does this translate into ME telling the stories I want to tell?
In Sims 3, I theorized that once you, the player, flipped a switch and made gay Sims, the game would accommodate this and you'd see gay townies turning up. This doesn't seem to the be the case with Sims 4. There is no switch. Gay relationships don't appear to propagate on their own. A player's preference is totally ignored and for some reason the game favors hetero relationships. Total B..S..
This is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I've seen in the game yet. Forget story progression, forget toddlers, forget cemeteries. Sims 4 is intolerant by design. This is a massive and heinous oversight. I can't even.
Sims 4 has so much wrong with it, but discovering this slight is upsetting, hurtful, and downright ignorant. This is by far the worst infraction and should not be tolerated by anyone. The Sims has a large gay following and everyone needs to know about this whether you're gay, an ally or everything in between. F this.
In Sims 4, I've noticed that if I don't play my gay households for awhile, when I return, they've usually started relationships with the opposite sex. One Sim, in particular, I started him in a gay relationship. They broke up. I didn't play him for a while and when I went to check on him, he was with a female. I've seen this happen with a few other Sims as well. Another Sim gay I frequently play with often flirts with women. I didn't make him bi. I made him gay.
I can't begin to tell you how upsetting this forced lifestyle is. Why does the game do this? Why can't the game determine sexual preference and stick with it, like ALL the Sims games before it? Not only does the game appear to be intolerant of gay Sims, it's forcing it's own agenda on them. I RULE? Not if my gay Sims don't stay gay. I created this Sim, I wanted him gay. How does this translate into ME telling the stories I want to tell?
In Sims 3, I theorized that once you, the player, flipped a switch and made gay Sims, the game would accommodate this and you'd see gay townies turning up. This doesn't seem to the be the case with Sims 4. There is no switch. Gay relationships don't appear to propagate on their own. A player's preference is totally ignored and for some reason the game favors hetero relationships. Total B..S..
This is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I've seen in the game yet. Forget story progression, forget toddlers, forget cemeteries. Sims 4 is intolerant by design. This is a massive and heinous oversight. I can't even.
Sims 4 has so much wrong with it, but discovering this slight is upsetting, hurtful, and downright ignorant. This is by far the worst infraction and should not be tolerated by anyone. The Sims has a large gay following and everyone needs to know about this whether you're gay, an ally or everything in between. F this.
