Proper mechanical systems to fully support non binary Sims is another step in that journey.' It’s a journey still in progress, with many more steps to go. 'In the intervening years, we’ve taken important steps such as Gender Customization, Pronouns and now Sexual Orientation. 'The Sims 4 is eight years old at this point, and reliant on systems that were originally architected with a gender binary in mind,' Croft explained. Earlier this year it refused to remove same-sex relationships from the My Wedding Stories expansion in order to accommodate Russian law it eventually decided to release the expansion in Russia ' unaltered and unchanged,' with an Adults Only rating.ĮA's sexual orientation FAQ also touches on why, despite the implementation of the new orientation system, there are still only two gender options-and that, understandably, is a matter of practicality.

It's more a matter or principle than practicality, then-if you do nothing, nothing changes, which makes the whole basis for the request to disable the system frankly baffling-but it is a principle EA has stood up for in The Sims previously.

'While we try to give players the option to toggle certain gameplay features, LGBTQIA+ identities are a fact of life and not a toggle to be switched on and off,' design lead Jessica Croft wrote. 'This is still the default state for a new Sim.' But as far as the ability to disable the system completely, it's a hard 'no.' 'They'll have no inherent attraction to a gender, attraction can shift through gameplay, and they will WooHoo with any gender-the currently default state for Sims.'Ī separate sexual orientation FAQ says the same thing: Sexual orientation can be changed at any time, and if you don't touch any of the settings your Sims will continue to function as they always have. 'If you change none of the settings, your Sim will romantically behave as they currently do,' The Sims Twitter account said in reply to one user who asked for the ability to turn the system off. EA, to its credit, said no-although players can keep things as they are now by simply not changing any of the options. Unfortunately but oh-so-predictably, a handful of players responded to the announcement by asking for the option to turn the system off.

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