"We Aim To Be Inclusive"

"Horrorgirl6;c-17732669" wrote:

I pretty much agree with this.I don't care about the skin tones.They are just cosmetic anyway.The white skin tones are not good either.You hardly hear anyone complaining about those?I want sims to go back being a game.Where you can forget about reality, and care about your virtual sims reality.You can have diversity still, just don't make it a main focused.

That’s a straw man, quite frankly. If you (or anyone that makes this counter argument, really) were unsatisfied with the lighter skin tones and actually wanted the devs to fix them, you would’ve said something. But the only time I hear this brought up is when people want others to be quiet about it. Like I said, if it wasn’t a problem for you that’s fine, but it was a problem for others and they chose to speak up about it. And guess what? Now EVERYONE is getting new skin tones, across the shade range! Not just the darker skin tones. Isn’t that great? No more of those disappointing skin tones you didn’t like!

My personal theory is that EA made a very calculated decision by choosing to make inclusion one of their main marketing tactics. They know the gameplay is lacking, so they pivot to putting more emphasis on diversity to draw focus away from it. That way, instead of blaming EA for the lack of gameplay, some frustrated simmers start blaming “PC culture” and “wokeness”. Meanwhile, EA gets to sit back to watch the chaos without having to change a thing. Pretty effective grift if you ask me.