Maxis has officially stated that their commitment to inclusive values and LGTBQIA+ rights will continue unchanged despite the Saudi acquisition of EA. https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/the-values-that-shape-the-sims
>>730794090Sure, let's see that when they start get fired wholesale
>>730794212Nah, Saudis are pragmatic hypocrites. They tolerate any degeneracy as long as it makes money and is not being sold in their home market, and in latter regard they are also hypocritical and increasingly lax. Homosexuality is pretty much the last kind of fictional degeneracy they don't allow in the domestic Saudi market. The Sims will remain lame and gay as long as women keep shoveling money at the franchise, which seems to continue indefinitely since all the competitors keep fumbling it.
Which values?Profiteering?Corporate toxicity?Manipulative practices across all levels, with special emphasis on content release methods as pertains to DLC and what was considered default content in past Sims being reduced to fragmented money grabs?The aforementioned being implemented poorly?It's nice to see all of the above being shipped together with, and associated with, inclusive and LGBT retardation. Seems scams, corporate marketing, and veiling corporatism under dog whistles of trannyfag and feminist representation, all go together like bread and butter.
>because your business is failing so much you have to sell it to foreigners just to stay afloat>take this as a sign that you should change nothing about how you do businessThis horse shit is why they're floundering in the first place. Fire all activists.
Their lay-off, not mine
>>730794090nobody cares besides femcels, all of the maxis employees that made good games are either gone or trans now
>>730796191To be fair the Sims is probably one of the few properties they have that still turn a profit
>>730794090>Update>ATF mods are broken again.
Does The Sims Medieval actually have some more RPG elements or was that just marketing?
>>730794090Makes sense, they make virtual dollhouses for women after all.
>>730796309The thing is it didn't become profitable because of the woke shit. It became profitable because of the success of the previous iterations (that had less woke shit), and it stayed profitable despite the woke shit. Leaning more towards woke will not attract more players. This is a very small minority of people that would spend money because of the additions of degenerate nonsense and those people are already captured. Adding more gay shit only increases the amount of people that are no longer interested. They keep pushing the line further into extreme activism territory.
>>730796302>femcelsSo the target audience for the Sims?
>>730794090oh they must've seen the negative reaction to saudi whoreout from their paid jewtube shills lolnot exaggerating btw, they have a membership/club for influencers like total war slopthey're really hoping their project rene recycled sims 4.5 succeeds
>>730794090The Sims is like the number one game women play. They're gonna say whatever it takes to sound good to them
>>730796516Bro this game is for liberal soccer moms
>>730796516I mean, The Sims audience is already pretty much tapped. They got the women who want to play virtual house locked down. They have no need to course correct because all competitors like inZOI have somehow not understood that their new aspiring life sims need to be playable on women's potato laptops in order to actually compete with The Sims.
>>730796613The thing is, if you actually watch these women play, the overwhelming majority of them don't actually engage with the gay or woke shit. They like that it's added because it makes them feel like a good person, but if it were absent it wouldn't actually change their purchasing decisions.
>>730796693That's what he means though, that's the already existing audience. In addition to that, they might have captured a handful of trannies who didn't buy a game previouslyExactly why vidya has been so wokeified, the execs think the main audience will just keep buying any old shit so they add wokeness to get le modern audience
>>730796772>Exactly why vidya has been so wokeified, the execs think the main audience will just keep buying any old shitThe Sims fans apparently due. They're truer gamers than you.
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>>730796772And like I mentioned the entire reason why their business is floundering is because they've abandoned the largest portion of the video game buying population in order to cater to a fraction of a fraction of a percent. Even if they completely succeeded in making every troon in America buy their game, they would only gain 0.5% more of those players and then subsequently lose 25% of their existing players because in order to cater to that 0.5% the game would be fundamentally altered to be little more than a vessel for propaganda. tl;dr: They're obviously making a mistake.
>>730796947>in order to cater to that 0.5% the game would be fundamentally altered to be little more than a vessel for propagandaActually it would only have to add a character creation option or two onto the existing ones
>>730796947I agree with you, I was just reiterating that the existing audience still buying the game is what the decision-makers expect to happen. It worked so far with Sims but you're correct that they will keep forcing more and more wokeness until they manage to even lose the women audience
>>730794090Isn't Sims 4 ancient by now? Why does it still have a dedicated team?
>>730796516You underestimate the kinds of absolute garbage the female consumer will purchase
EA recently updated all the Sims 3 dlc on steam to be 19.99. Costs almost 400$ to get all of it now.
>>730797461based
>>730797173This, there is a good reason why every entertainment corporation has spent years trying a force a female consumer audience for themselves.
>>730796613It used to have more broad appeal. People keep saying they've retained their audience. But I played a few sims games when I was a kid and so did my friends. Do little boys still plays sims games? I doubt it.
>>730797515It's more cost effective to market towards non-whites and non-males, because white males are more responsible with their money and resistant to external influence. It's why almost all advertising neglects (and often antagonizes) white men.
>>730797767Of course they do, doing one playthrough where they fuck every woman in town, as is their god-given right
>>730794090I hope someone tweets that at the appropriate Saudi prince to get that adjusted.
>>730797147It doesn't matter how old it is if you can still hawk DLC at normalfags who exclusively play your game.
>>730797998I tried that a couple of years ago but so many white female sims had black babies. It took me such a long time to figure out how to mod that bullshit out.
>>730794090Good, good. It'll make the cleanup faster.
>>730797996They can be incredibly valuable customers to have, IF you can capture them
>>730794090They say this but those Sims look far prettier than the typical woke orcs you'd see in "inclusive" shit. The old man and young girl could even suggest that they are tolerant of extreme age gap relationships. Obviously the Saudis are still winning.
>>730794090...until all those devs get fired
>>730794619>They tolerate any degeneracy as long as it makes moneyWoke shit doesn't make you money, you dumb faggot. The smart move would be to ban all of it.
