What is Your Biggest Criticism About Sims 4?

"GrimlyFiendish;c-18166204" wrote:
Honestly what I see as performative allyship & rainbow capitalism, from the Sims in general, really irks me. I'm not saying there aren't sims gurus and creators who are genuine allies to the LGBTQIA+ community, because I think there are. In terms of the Sims game itself though, I just think there needs to be a lot more genuine shows off allyship instead of what too often appears to be a marketing ploy to appeal to players of a certain age and demographic.

For example: teaming up with popular influencers on instagram, when they could instead team up with grass roots arts initiatives that are working within communities for real change, and appearing to give sims players non binary clothing options for their sims, whilst simultaneously appearing to forget that trans men, the stone butch lesbian community, masculine presenting non binary & gay folks also exist.

Yes! That gets on my nerves so much, especially in the wake of what they did to female werewolves! No option for breasts and unreasonably restricted hip, waist, and butt sliders in order to restrict them to an "androgynous" (read: masculine) physique, even as they rainbow-wash this game to Heck and back in every trailer, hyping up their "gender inclusivity" line! I did some digging into the game model files with MorphMaker, and I found that they deliberately gave female werewolves a masculine base model and a reference model with reduced hip and waist range for the sliders! Furthermore, though you can break through what they did to the female werewolves' chests with a slider mod, they still have it set up where CAS doesn't recognize the modified slider data automatically, leading tops and full-body clothing to still auto-flatten the chest, which requires an override in Live Mode via the "traits.equip_trait trait_Breasts_ForceOn" cheat (this requires testing cheats to be on) in order for their boobs to show with clothes on because they do not apply the breast trait automatically in CAS!!

They go around playing their Rainbow Capitalism song, and then go to all that effort to deliberately force-masculinize female werewolves?! That's not allyship.

By the way, if any of you would like to restore breasts to your female werewolves, you can find my test slider mod HERE. I recommend combining it with a chest depth replacement slider like hi-land's BIG BOOBS?? MALE CHEST SLIDER (I like this one, since it gives guys better pecs ^_^), since a side-effect of this WIP slider is giving guys the boob slider too, but chest depth slider replacements override it on the males while keeping the female chest restoration intact. Just remember to turn on testing cheats, then use "cas.fulleditmode" and "traits.equip_trait trait_Breasts_ForceOn" with your female werewolf sim selected, then edit her werewolf form in CAS to fix her chest fully.

I'm not done fighting this fight, either with mods or the devs fixing their screw-up, there will be justice for the she-wolves!!