I don't see how our messages contradict, but rather complement each other. You're talking on a bigger global scale, while I take a much narrower approach talking about interests and contunuous support of players who already spent all that money on this specific product. Also I'm a directly affected party, so this too may…
@haneul Let's kindly agree to disagree on this one. In my opinion it's not up to EA at all to support or not support regions, laws or governments. It's a commercial game company, not a political party, not a human rights organasation, not a peacemaking force and not a charity, it's a commercial game company and the only…
The fact remains it all stressed out Russian simmers such as myself and many of my friends and our foreign frinds and supporters as hell. It took so much effort to first understand what was going on, then explain it to everyone else. The first 24 hours we faced so much blame and hate as if every Russian simmer personally…
Tbh they didn't even have to put a hetero couple on the cover (if the cover really is the issue). They could have left it blank. I personally would have seen it as solidarity too: if gay people can't be there, then straight people shouldn't be there either.
The need to change the game pack cover remains only the most popular speculation among simmers, it was never confirmed by EA, nor by any Russian source. Nor, as I stated above, it is dictated by any law that could apply to TS4 game content in Russia. In fact right this moment, major Russian gaming and news sites publish…
The legal part of all this is really unclear. I'm not saying LGBTQ+ people are not discriminated against in Russia, like hell they are and it's awful. I'm not saying Russia shouldn't be more open-minded, it absolutely must. But as far as laws go there's only one thing that's clearly forbidden - marketing LGBTQ+ content to…
This is a noble sentiment, but only time will show if they follow it through. I think after they reap their reputation points for this move, they will later quietly release the pack for Russia and reap their profit. Hope I'm wrong.
EA motives - good. 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…