I hope they dont ruin the game by being too "Safe"...

[EntityofDesire]

My fear is that developers are listening to a loud minority of helicopter trigger free weirdo's pushing for a "safe" experience, where anything remotely offensive or challenging (gameplay) is toned down or removed.

The Sims 4 has been widely criticized for this exact issue—stripping away failure or challenge for players (and sims) to overcome. The sims never actually face challenges or survival mechanics like previous sims games did.

I'm HOPING South Korean work and life culture will influence how inzoi's go about their daily life and gameplay has CHALLENGE to it in the sense a player must actually engage with the game to get ahead, not simply be a sandbox where everything is unlocked and nothing requires any effort to do - including survive or grow.

BUT considering how vastly different east culture is from west, and I'm worried western "influencers" are being brought into development to help "modernize" it for the wests "standards" which we can already see they've changed "male" and "female" to "body types"—a purely Western, politically motivated concept that doesn’t exist in Asian culture.

Agree with it or not, I'm concerned these same voices are going to strip away anything that challenges a player in the game to coddle them and is the reason why the Sims 4 is SO boring because it lacks any challenging gameplay and by that I mean even just accomplishing little things like in Animal crossing. Basically there isn't really any "gaming to Sims 4, because you can't fail at it - and thats why people had to invent challenges.

I hope I’m wrong, but this is a slippery slope. The loudest voices in the room tend to pressure developers until it aligns with their personal politics or remains “safe” and "easy" to play because if the game is too much like real life - well thats just too triggering.

[⚡ ЛёӾa_B☺Ин ⚡]

Messaggio originale di ThePolishJoker:

If No Sex & No Sexuality InGame 👎 It Will Go To Trash 💁‍♂️

Let's hope that the modders will remove the excessive political correctness.

[EntityofDesire]

Messaggio originale di ⚡ ЛёӾa_B☺Ин ⚡:

Messaggio originale di ThePolishJoker:

If No Sex & No Sexuality InGame 👎 It Will Go To Trash 💁‍♂️

Let's hope that the modders will remove the excessive political correctness.

Well again its not so much about removing content as making sure the developers DONT remove content to make the game too easy. This entire post I made is about them making the game too easy, without any form of challenge or well - like life. What your talking about is an entirely different topic and oyur free to make your own about it.

My concern is the game will be "dumbed" down to make it unrealistic and unchallenged for our sims to exist in the world and for players to feel engaged in gameplay.

[Communion]

The Western version is edited and censored? If true, I have no interest in it.

[EntityofDesire]

Messaggio originale di Communion:

The Western version is edited and censored? If true, I have no interest in it.

No this suddenly become a lot of misinformation, my topic was about them removing challenge due to parties who may think the game is "too hard" because it has real life mechanics (aka get a job and actually succeed at it, etc). But people are popping in doing the regular steam forum antics looking for clown awards.

[Ozium]

that's what mods are for to open things up :)

[gween]

agree. normies have ruined lifesim genre. I have a good feeling about this game though because they are not western devs. People in the west are extremely sensitive in comparison to the rest of the world. I think that the game will be a good middleground. It wont be too edgy but it'll require normals to toughen up a little.

[Neonivek]

Messaggio originale di gween:

agree. normies have ruined lifesim genre. I have a good feeling about this game though because they are not western devs. People in the west are extremely sensitive in comparison to the rest of the world. I think that the game will be a good middleground. It wont be too edgy but it'll require normals to toughen up a little.

It isn't normies. The actual number of people who support this kind of stuff amounts to just 8% of the ENTIRE population (not even the percent of people into videogames... which would be lower).

The actual problem is more complex than that. For example you can get negative reviews if your game is considered not "corporately acceptable" enough... AND lose investment opportunities too (or at least they openly talk about doing so).

Or in otherwords it is a minority of very loud and influential people who pretend to talk for everyone.