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A Letter From The Sims Team
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Players in Russia will not be able to purchase My Wedding Stories.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
A Letter To Our Players from The Sims Team
Celebrating Love, Your Way
Over the years, you’ve delighted us with the ways your Sims have found love and celebrated that love through weddings in our base game. You’ve also shared with us your eagerness to walk down the aisle, have your Sims take their seats and shed a tear of joy as you made a lifelong commitment.
When we set out to create “My Wedding Stories” this was the vision we had for our global community: the joy of finding love, celebrating that love and telling stories that have meaning on a personal level.
Imagining the stories our players will tell with our packs is at the heart of everything we create. For “My Wedding Stories,” we were excited to introduce you to Dom and Cam. Their love story reflects the lived experiences of so many members of our community and team.
As we moved through our development and brand storytelling process, we became aware that the way we wanted to tell Cam and Dom’s story would not be something we could freely share around the world.
A Commitment to Our Values
The ability to tell stories - any story - is at the core of what we do at The Sims. Holding back Cam and Dom’s story meant compromising the values we live by. We are committed to the freedom to be who you are, to love who you love and tell the stories you want to tell.
So what does that mean for you, our players? We are steadfast in upholding that commitment by shining a light on and celebrating stories like Dom and Cam’s, so we have made the decision to forgo the release of “My Wedding Stories” where our storytelling would be subject to changes because of federal laws.
Regrettably, this means that members of The Sims community in Russia will not be able to purchase this game pack.
To our Simmers around the world, we are grateful to have you in our universe.
With love and gratitude,
The Sims Team
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/our-commitment-to-you
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
A Letter To Our Players from The Sims Team
Celebrating Love, Your Way
Over the years, you’ve delighted us with the ways your Sims have found love and celebrated that love through weddings in our base game. You’ve also shared with us your eagerness to walk down the aisle, have your Sims take their seats and shed a tear of joy as you made a lifelong commitment.
When we set out to create “My Wedding Stories” this was the vision we had for our global community: the joy of finding love, celebrating that love and telling stories that have meaning on a personal level.
Imagining the stories our players will tell with our packs is at the heart of everything we create. For “My Wedding Stories,” we were excited to introduce you to Dom and Cam. Their love story reflects the lived experiences of so many members of our community and team.
As we moved through our development and brand storytelling process, we became aware that the way we wanted to tell Cam and Dom’s story would not be something we could freely share around the world.
A Commitment to Our Values
The ability to tell stories - any story - is at the core of what we do at The Sims. Holding back Cam and Dom’s story meant compromising the values we live by. We are committed to the freedom to be who you are, to love who you love and tell the stories you want to tell.
So what does that mean for you, our players? We are steadfast in upholding that commitment by shining a light on and celebrating stories like Dom and Cam’s, so we have made the decision to forgo the release of “My Wedding Stories” where our storytelling would be subject to changes because of federal laws.
Regrettably, this means that members of The Sims community in Russia will not be able to purchase this game pack.
To our Simmers around the world, we are grateful to have you in our universe.
With love and gratitude,
The Sims Team
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/our-commitment-to-you
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My heart breaks for the LGBT in Russia, especially the youth who are afraid to grow up. Just know, there is nothing wrong with you, and that you are loved.
One day it will get better, you may have to fight for that day, but it will get better.
I truly hope you all stay safe, and I will give props to the sims team for not censoring themselves, like so many other forms of medi and entertainment have.
At the end of the day, a game is not more important than human rights, and we have so much work to do, every voice matters.
There was no description or logo for that language in the asset pack.
I hope it will. There are some Russian-speaking players in Belarus and Ukraine, for example, and neither Belarusian nor Ukrainian is an option, so they have to play in Russian (when you buy the Sims 4 through Origin in Eastern Europe, you get a regional version with only Russian, Polish or Czech available). So it will be completely unfair to punish them for no reason.
Edit: actually not sure how it will work for Ukrainian players, it looks messed up
One day, that will change.
Yes I wonder this too.
A simple cover change is all that is needed. Unless this pack plays like Strangerville with a set story to follow and isn't entirely up to the player? Surely whoever plays it can play in their own style.
Was Cats and Dogs available in Russia (thinking of the Hecking family)
The thing is that a cover change would mean giving in to those absurd laws in Russia. The Sims Team chose integrity over profitability here, and I love that they did that. However it's very sad for Russian Simmers, I hope they can get their hands on the pack in some other way.
Yes, Cats and Dogs and any other content (pride flags, skirts for men, etc.) is available. It seems like the issue is not the content (the game is already 18+), but marketing. The trailer is not labeled 18+ and it has a happy lesbian couple, so technically it is against the "propaganda law". Maybe that's the issue, and the Sims team decided not to change the trailer, because why should they.
Yeah, but they decided to take a stand instead. They didn't want to censor their story, which is admirable...
But it's sad that it's the russian simmers that will have to pay for that story.
but then again i guess they couldn't dodge russia bans forever and i guess rather than cutting content from everyone cutting it from russia makes more sense
well I've never been more happy Finland ain't part of russia whew. thank you history people that made me having couple dancing in sims 4 possibility
then again i still wonder if they couldn't make like russia edition? maybe not
just sounds so sad for the russian simmers
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They could have made a trailer just for Russia. Wonder how the marketing is in middle east and Asian countries.
No, just to no resign against bad laws
At Russia The Sims 4 is +18 then is allowed same sex couples
Russian laws - bad.
Thousands of Russian simmers, including LGBTQ+ people and allies, for whom this game is an escape and an outlet for expression their identity and their ideals just like for all othr simmers around the world, punished - unfair.
And someone asked if Cats and Dogs were available in Russia - yes, Heckings, Ngata, Greenburg, Tinker, Moody and McMillan families were there with full bio - no censorship. The Snowy Escape trailer features a lesbian couple - no censorship. We just had that kit with a drag queen as main promotion figure released and sold to us np. So this all makes the Wedding Pack situation twice as strange and tangibly political. And very very sad.