The Sims Is Partnering With It Gets Better to Bring Pride Content to the Game

During EA Play today, the company announced that the Sims will be partnering with the It Gets Better project to support the LGBT+ community and bring some colorful clothing into the series.

[bluefox755]

...why? Why do we need to include an activist group in our video games? It's obviously just corporate pandering.

[Christopher]

For those gamers who might want it?

It is optional content, not forced.

Not everyone is into the same thing. Some people want mermaids, some don't. Some people want magic, some don't. Some people want LGBT+ stuff in their game, some don't.

People get way too bent out of shape over just one of those content options. Strange.

[meep316]

why not just let people players be gay, or trans or whatever without bringing some activist group into it? Its pretty obvious they used peoples donations to pay for this, kind of awful pandering by ea if you ask me. Every time corporations do this sort of thing they try and make it a big deal and act like they are angels, same sex couples or whatever else should already be in this game. gay people arent aliens or some other species, they are pretty much like everyone else in most ways.

[Christopher]

***why not just let people players be gay, or trans or whatever without bringing some activist group into it?***

Eh, that's the business element of it. I don't know about the group, but if it means content that people want, then that's cool. If it means content no one wants, then that's a loss for EA in the end, not anyone else.

But, I do have a problem with people throwing the whole game in the trash just because of one option content item.

[Elda]

Strange indeed but true.

[b777conehead]

Be gay if you want stop forcing it down people’s throats

[Servbot41]

The game already lets you be omega gay which is cool, this is just lame pandering.

[meep316]

Im glad some people can separate pandering from acceptance. Pandering is exploitation, and someone will probably censor my posts for "wrongthink".

[Sono421]

Shameless pandering like this being celebrated is an absolute joke. Not to mention the PAINFUL irony underneath the update "others think everyone should like the content" Are you not updating because you're upset people don't like this content?

Missing the real point, it's shameless pandering for around 2% of the population. Does that make any sense? Do they know nothing about target demographics? Literally no one cares if you're gay anymore, you're gay? Cool, i'm certainly not going to celebrate it, why should a sexuality be celebrated? Why would you make sexuality a selling point or main focus? It's as idiotic as celebrating the fact that you're a man, or celebrating that you're a woman, you celebrate ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, society as a whole is forgetting this, we now celebrate specific groups just for existing and it's borderline patronizing.

[Cavalier]

Nice!

[Knightofelemia]

Knowing EA bet the LGBT items will be nickel and dimed to death and include microtransactions.

[mezati99]

i want to puke

[PlatinumGX]

Trash content for a trash game.

[meep316]

I dont even understand this LGBT+ thing, it seems to be way beyond rights for people who are different. Its almost like they want to do anything they can for people to be at each others throats. For example, people start accepting gay people just fine but then they decide now we need 80 genders, where does it end? Its not even a community, they are just people who happen to be a little different and they are every where in society.

[Smokehouse]

Are sims players really getting mad about gay stuff? I’m pretty sure this is typical “controversy for hits”.

[Elda]

Guessing this content is good for folks that associate themselves within the LGBTQ community,something they can relate to. To each their own.

[meep316]

Maybe for the small group of activists who like to play identity politics.

[Kashima]

That gay.

[Mr_Writer85]

@zelent.

It's not like other content is being delayed or cancelled.

They literally spent half an hour talking about expansions. And one of those, which they spent 5mins out of 30 (maybe less) was about these items.

So no my argument isn't weak at all. I have literally no interest in the next expansion, should I get upset that its being made?

[Salooh]

"Look at me I'm gay"
Me: ok i get it...
"Take a deep look please"
Me: no need..
"Don't turn your face!! Look!!!!"
Me: please keep it to yourself. Don't waste my time by repeatedly introducing your gender to me, it is meaningless to my life..
"Lets ban and spit on this person, he don't care"
Me: I leave you alone, why can't you leave me alone? I don't need to know you are gay! You don't need to know I'm straight. It add nothing to gaming...

[Salooh banned]
Last words: cya next year... T_T

[Mr_Writer85]

You "leave them alone"

Yet here you our, being attacked by no one and pretending that gay people are some how shoving their gayness in your face?

Lulz

[Salooh]

It's not me who create these topics. It's not me who force his opinion on these topics, I watch e3 for games not for these irrelevant topics.

This is a response to an awkward and bad behaviour. I didn't trigger this topic..

Leave your politics/beliefs out of gaming conferences, I'm not even expresing my opinion/belief on LGBT topic. I'm just trying to stay away from anything not related to gaming...

Stop forcing this agenda in gaming platforms. You wouldn't like it if i expressed the opposite in the same platform. So stop forcing it..

[Mr_Writer85]

"I'm not even expresing my opinion/belief on LGBT topic."

Well you are, you believe that they're constantly putting it in your face.

And it was less than 5 minutes of a 2 hour conference, talking about game content, which can have gay characters.

It's not like they've shoehorned it in, it's relevant.

You know what's worse then a bigot? A bigot who pretends and kids themselves that they're not a bigot.

[Salooh]

'' Well you are, you believe that they're constantly putting it in your face. ''
You triggered or something ? You call this my belief ? You are bothered without even knowing my belief. It doesn't matter if i am bigot or not.That's none of your business.

I don't hate gay people, i just don't like their behaviour and reasoning. I still treat them as humans like others. But again, none of your business. Even this is not my belief, if i want to express my belief i would bring you scientific evidence, religious evidence, my experience amd reasoning...etc but that is irrelavent to the topic, why do gay people need to introduce themselves again and again in E3? Are they sick with cancer? Why is it relavent to us gamers? Why are they so special that you have to shine a light at them in these conferences? What you are doing is like, a game have a gay character and you think you have to mention it in E3. Why is it freaking relavent that this character is gay? And why every time you have to announce your allegiance to gay community? You want equality yet you keep asking for exclusive treatment. Why can't you get the logic? :D

[Mr_Writer85]

Yeah mate I'm the triggered one.

I'm the one posting a wall of text because a game is making a bit of content.aimed at the gay community.

Completely optional content.

That had literally no affect on your life.

[Salooh]

You still confusing yourself, Let them make whatever they want. That's not the issue. I'm referring to their behaviour in the show.

You don't want a wall of text so read my comments again to understand the issue..

[Salooh]

Ok, you don't need to read this.

Kojima is gay, do you see me going nuts, boycotting him or complaining or something? No, why? Because he don't rub it in my face. So I'm looking forward to his games.

But if he were to go to e3 and announce that he is gay every year and start an exclusive gay advertising campaign in e3 and start treating gay people as special people, like how it is done now. That would be annoying as hell.

[Mr_Writer85]

"Kojima is gay,"

Stopped reading there, no he isn't he's married and has a child with his wife.

https://www.eurogamer.net/a...

I'm done now mate, when you have to resort to making things up you lose all credibility.

[Salooh]

Sorry, people here in n4g were implying that he was gay alomng time ago. i thought that he is gay.

What's wrong with you ? My point still stand. You are so rude..

Ok, replace kojima with sheldon. Same logic. I don't care if he is gay. Just don't rub it on my face, thats the principle, easy -.-

[m2stech]

Now that we're at it let's have a religious expansion, a world peace and charity stuff pack and a global warming DLC.

[FPS_D3TH]

Hello marketable demographic. We care now that being gay is perfectly legal and that it’s also socially reprehensible if we don’t. Please spend more money on our lgbt wares frends.