"We Aim To Be Inclusive"

"keFUNKNEY101;c-17740928" wrote:
I think they should make it possible to enable/disable aspects of the game. That way they can add these things, and if it offends someone so much, they can just disable it. In theory, in this case, they'd still have access to the same amount of content, and be able to customize their game to their liking without excluding anyone or seeming to throw out people's culture.

The simplistic solution would've been for EA to have merely removed "offending" content from the country of origin that made the request- disincluding the US, due to the freedom of art being the greatest freedom available in the country.
Pretty certain we've discussed this, but EA practically admitted to it being offensive through the removal without a proper cultural board to confirm some random online group's cancel culture claims.


As for the mods, I wouldn't recommend using them.
If EA truly aims for inclusion, then it's only a matter of time that they start going after "offensive" community content.

"JasonRMJ;c-17740584" wrote:

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17736114" wrote:
A mod has already been created that puts the interaction back into the game. The coding was left in, but just disabled and the mod re-enables it. As for the skin tone update, it is touted to be more for those with darker skin tones. As a very white woman, my skintone is not currently represented as well. All the tones are too orange. My IRL skintone is very pale white with a blue/purple undertone. So the update might actually help achieve that too.

I like the idea that the team, instead of removing the bowing to the shrine and textures/patterns for CAS and furniture from the game files outright, they just hid/disabled it. So, that modders can enable it back. This wouldn't really be an issue for PC users, who uses mods like me. So, console players who wants the removed textures and bowing to the shrine in their game back, are out of luck.

I mean the team already made the animation for the bowing, and created the textures/patterns for both the furniture and clothing. It wouldn't really be appropriate, when the textures and animations were finalized from the time and research they had done, before 3 weeks after the release of the Expansion Pack. So, they made a compromised by making new textures/patterns and replacing the animation. While keeping the old ones hidden.

Here's my sim wearing the old texture back (the fan one with the highlights), and bowing to the shrine to pay respect to the spirits. Thanks to a mod that added them back as new swatches, rather than overriding it.

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https://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/9/2/4/4/3/9/3/MTS_JasonRMJ-1971228-2.png

https://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/9/2/4/4/3/9/3/MTS_JasonRMJ-1971229-11-20-20_11-10-19AM.png

And, these too. I don't really know why the team had to remove the Yagasuri (arrow feather) patterns for the kimonos, to an all straight version of it. But, I got them back too.

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https://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/9/2/4/4/3/9/3/MTS_JasonRMJ-1974766-New.png

To PC simmers who wants them back, here are the links to enable the textures and animations back. FOR PC ONLY! sorry console folks.

Removed furniture texture (Override):

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https://simfileshare.net/download/2167134/

Removed furniture texture (New Swatches):

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https://simfileshare.net/filedetails/2167132/

Removed clothing texture (New Swatches):

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http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2157399/

Bow at Shrine Re-enabled :

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https://modthesims.info/d/649481/bow-at-shrine-re-enabled.html