Hi,
I see that a lot of YT Simmers and Customers are spamming on The Sims social media and trying to let EA to give us more skin and hair tones. Do you thing that they will finally get us more skin tones? If yes, what should be fixed next?
I guess that it should be more item swatches, matching cabinets and more lots for base game and expansion worlds.
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Hair Swatches
Black: We need different undertones for black hair. The current one has a blue undertone and I think a little more neutral and darker black swatch would be a welcome change. The salt&pepper swatch is decent but it doesn't always work well for younger sims because the silver hairs can be very strong on some hairs.
Brown: The dark brown swatch is one of the best swatches in the game because it looks good with pretty much any hair. That being said, we could use some more undertones for brown. The light brown swatch looks kinda obnoxious on a lot of the hairs and I wish we would have ashier tones.
Red: I don't personally have complaints on the red side but someone else probably does.
Blonde: As someone who has naturally blonde hair, this is the category that really irks me. The swatches are awful. The ''dirty blonde'' is the only decent blonde swatch and it's not even a real dirty blonde. I have never used the cheese swatch because I hate it with a burning passion. The platinum blonde swatch looks good on very few hairs because it looks choppy on a lot of the textures. I wish we would get ashier tones for blondes. Something that resembles actually dirty blonde hair. I have the most basic blonde hair anyone can be born with and there's no way to replicate that in the Sims without custom swatches (and I don't like using custom swatches)
White&Gray: Personally, I don't mind the darker gray swatch but the lighter one I have a slight problem with. I wish we would have something a little lighter with less blue undertone.
Unnatural: I wish we would have a broader range of unnatural swatches. For example, dark purple, lighter green, pastel pink, pastel blue etc. because we're really lacking in those.
Skintones
I don't even remember what most of the swatches look like because I had to replace them with custom overrides because the dark tones had very weird textures and undertones. Some of the darker swatches are almost corpse-like because they have so ashy undertones. Skintones are probably always gonna be an issue unless they create a slider with undertone options and then a broad range from light to dark.
they have given a time frame ? they have know idea how much work this stuff takes
I'd prefer they paid attention to the traits and relationships and added some depth to those.
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Right now a lot of simmers supporting the movement just want the devs to acknowledge the request and take on community suggestions on how to improve the (woefully lacking) skin tones.
Some have even suggested that the team reach out to game changer Xmiramira and get her input on new skin tones, considering she’s made custom skin tone packs to extend the range of shades.
Agreed with this ^ I know there are mods that will add some depth but it would be wonderful to create SIMs with more personality straight off the proverbial bat.
I'd like to see hairs and eye colour addressed as well.
If they can put in a Simmer's house in Eco Lifestyle they can do it for hair colours!
https://www.change.org/p/ea-games-a-color-wheel-for-the-sims-4
However skin tones need to be addressed and if nothing else fixed. The undertones are terrible on many of them especially the darker skins. I’d love a slider or more skin options but I think more than anything we need existing ones fixed and retextured. I don’t ever use the super pale or darker tones because they look terrible no matter what you do. It’s not something they can ignore and as transparent as they are I wish they could and would say something on this.
So no, they're not listening to us.
I think you fail to see it because you are not a POC.
But I agree that we need better/more skintones. Most of them have some weird undertones or look ashy, and a big part of the darker skintones has some weird texture issues (i guess that’s what it it’s called?) and it really needs to be fixed.
I dont see EA doing anymore than what anyone else is doing unfortunately. Unless it means $$$ which means its coming in an expansion in some way, not a patch the way I see it. Or unless people start saying EA is racist and pull it into a blm thing / being tied up in social media with a huge amount of people asking for it, then under pressure theyll prob add them to escape some public shaming lol. Which the only reason once again will be $$$ motivated.
But thankfully there are a lot of modders who deliver! So for now im satisfied.
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
Maybe they don't want to make these changes because they have to be free updates, and they can't sell them as a pack.
@Justin Okay the University and Seasons thing I kind of understand since they were supposed to be packs. But toddlers? Really? You shouldn't have to wait for that to come out. It should be there from the start. Same goes for babies, cars and skintones, if people have been complaining about it 6 whole years ago (which at least with babies and cars they have) then that was enough time. How does it take such a huge company like EA 6 years to make babies, cars, color wheels etc.? And if it's not coming because they don't want to do it, then they should make a statement.
You're probably right but there is quite a few coloured skin tones already so yeah that's why I don't really understand it?
Like with Animal Crossing New Horizons they have the same complaints and in that game I can understand it because the options for coloured skin tones and hair are actually very few but in TS4 I don't see the same issue.
Anyway I wish good luck with the movement. I honestly don't really think that EA are a listening to their players kind of company unless it's the sound of our money jingling in their pockets.
I agree that they should have better customer service & make a statements that they are aware of what some of the community would like to see. But unfortunately this is the way EA is. Like I’ve said before this game is 6 years old and is still incomplete compare to previous titles. But there’s too many people backing up these type of company’s by supporting them by buying these rip off packs