Hey, is it true that you cannot get married at a wedding venue lot, the special lot type added by the pack? What 😂 EA, we can have our sims woohoo in a dumpster and slice “flesh” off a questionable meat wall and pee in a bush but cannot have them get married at where they’re supposed to? I see what their priorities are.…
Idk, it still seems very odd how they decided to not list sims 2 for sale on origin. People are more than willing to buy it. Well, unless they are too self-conscious and know that no one's going to touch their garbage packs when everyone's fully dedicated to enjoying sims 2. In that case, they need to keep it as far away…
Yeah, and hopefully more people could soon tell that the letter's full of hypocrisy and corporate greed 😄 EA doesn't give a flying plumbob about the oppressive reality in which Russian LGBT+ people are experiencing on a daily basis, all they wanted was an opportunity to scapegoat the homophobic law in Russia in order to…
If EA really cared about LBGT minorities in countries like Russia where packs like this would not make it to the marketplace, they should have just released it as an update for all, lol. That way that could have still allow everyone to tell whatever stories they want without much interference from the government or the…
Reading all these negative comments really make it seem that this pack should not have been sold anywhere, does it not? 🙃 A free update, more like it. Wedding cakes for an entire game pack? Back in the early sims 4 days, I remember EA being criticised for making “bland and uninspiring” holiday destinations shipped in…
I was confused at first when I saw the relating posts on tumblr posted by other Russian simblrs because I knew all sims 4 packs were already 18+ in compliance with the law, but then I saw that rubbish EA corporate nonsense I knew that they wanted publicity instead of solidarity. EA's trying to fool everyone by playing the…
Point is, sims 4 is already rated as 18+ in russia because 8 years ago in 2014 EA themselves gave in to the Russian authority because they value $$$ so much more than sticking to their “core values” of creating whatever kind of story they wanted to and protesting against lgbt oppression. If EA were to releaae the same…
They could have easily changed the cover art universally (which means all cover arts all across the world's store front gets updated) to something simple like this to show solidarity with those in Russia because their authority doesn't like it, instead for opting to not releasing it altogether for them:
What bothers me even more is that it's not like this pack brings in any "revolutionary" gameplay upgrades to the game. Same-sex marriage already exists in the sims 4 and the direct result being the game receiving an 18+ rating back then in 2014. EA didn't complain (if at all!) at the time so what makes them so vocal in…
Yeah, it only took them 8 years to "realise" that their freedom to storytelling was endangered by the homophobic law. Instead of providing another outlet for Russian simmers to access the pack, they decided to kowtow to the law by not releasing it and cutting those players out of the picture.
If EA attempted to release the pack as it is (with the cover art and intended storyline) and then tweet about how the Russian authority rejected their bid to put their pack up on the market for sale, they could elaborate on this and said "WE TRIED", it would be a different story.
.... just release the pack as it is with the exact same cover art? The game and all its stuff are already rated as 18+ to "not promote lgbt content to youngsters" per anti-LGBT law so I don't see what the problem is.
Did they even try to release the pack in Russia, I wonder. It'll be a different story if EA DID try to release the pack there, which subsequently got rejected and withdrawn by the authority there; using Russia's anti-LGBT law to bring publicity to this pack, however, is a different story...
I already said this on another thread that I THINK this is entirely a corporate publicity stunt on EA's part. They knew that their freedom to tell stories in sims 4 would be severely limited by the controversial anti-LGBT law in Russia back then. When it was announced that sims 4 would be an 18+ rated game, but they didn't…
Not going to lie, that EA’s letter to all simmers really seems like garbage corporate publicity stunt to me. If EA really cared that much about the lgbt+ minorities living in states like Russia where freedom to express their love is severely restricted, instead of not trying to sell the pack there like they’re protesting…