"We Aim To Be Inclusive"

"Barbie430;c-17732631" wrote:

"keekee53;c-17732571" wrote:
Boy do I miss the good ole days when Sims was about Sims. Yes it simulated life but there was still a Sim quirkiness about the game. Now we have to have the right skins, the right pronouns, the right hair, the right shrine worship...

I have to admit, that I am getting tired of it. As an African American, I would like better skin tones but at this point I wish they would just make a good game. You know when I played sims 1 and 2, I was having a grand time not thinking about skins, hair, pronouns etc. Yes I had cc for skin and hair which was good enough for me. I wasn't focused on it so much because I was actually having a good time PLAYING. Now that we have so many people in CAS and never playing the game, there is so much focus on stuff that quite frankly would not be as important if the game was more fun. You hear that EA. Forget the inclusive business and make the game more fun.

As an African American, I wholeheartedly disagree. Just because you were okay with the skins and hair on offer back in “the good ole days” doesn’t mean everyone was. I surely wasn’t. There’s been an ongoing campaign for EA to fix skin tones for years. People like to make sims that look like them and for a while many couldn’t do that. Should this be a major feature for the game? Obviously not. But these things matter to people and they really don’t take much effort. I assure you we’re not missing out on gameplay because EA finally decided to give the devs some time to fix that horrible base game afro and allow people more flexibility with their sims’ gender expression. Create-a-Sim is still part of The Sims, therefore, The Sims is still about the sims. That is until they have another go at an MMO format.

Here is the thing...
These guys can update skin, hairs etc until they are blue in the face and I GUARANTEE people are still going to use cc over anything else they put in the game. Let's face it, cc creators always have and always will do it better(thanks Xmiramira). At first, I was all in but I see this is starting to be more of a hassle than it is worth maybe because I didn't see a difference in the first patch. I remember opening the game and saying did they do anything?? Welp thanks for the Hispanic Heritage stuff..lol

I assure you that the time spent on updating skins, hair, pronouns etc will blow back on our pockets one way or another. Honestly, I rather they fix these annoying bugs and put some real gameplay back into the game. I think their time could be better spent elsewhere at this point like changing the babies to real sims and not objects, adding merry go rounds, kids able to play games like miss mary mack hide and seek, etc, a dating and attraction system, fears, burglars I mean if a vamp can break in..., and where is the pool party event, etc. But we can agree to disagree.