TRANSGENDEREA will add binders, top surgery scars, and more in The Sims 4. How about actually adding what people keep asking for, instead of pandering...?

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[–]Clownfall 16 insightful - 9 fun16 insightful - 8 fun17 insightful - 9 fun -  (3 children)

Only top surgery? - what about bottom surgery, with the massive arm scars where flesh was sacrificed to form the phallus? Can you send your Sims for dozens of corrective surgeries when it goes wrong and they end up peeing out of the wrong orifice?

And what about the M2Fs? - does it support dilation schedules? Maybe a pre-transition 'sissy training' program?

Can your Sims join their local Antifa group and beat up TERFs?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 7 fun8 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

form the phallus

Pseudophallus, fleshsausage or feenis.

How do you think those poor, poor trans babies are made? A feenis goes in a guygina and then the poor, poor trans baby crawls out like Andy Dufresne.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This was both hilarious and horrifying.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gotta get those sweet, sweet social contagion dollars. They know their target demographic and they’re playing up to it.

[–]clownworlddropout 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

lol amazing. They treat life like a character creator so this makes total sense.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

At first glance, this is a blatant example of shameless pandering. Roll my eyes in disgust and move on, right?

But then I actually thought about it for a bit, and decided to stir my ass into actually looking some shit up.

This game is 8 years old already. That's just about ancient in video game years, and the point where there's any significant profit to wrung from it is probably long gone for EA. Average daily player count (according to Steam) has consistently been between 20k and 40k for a pretty long time now, and those people probably have quite likely spent whatever they're going to spend on it. And the number of those players who are trans is probably small enough that it could disappear in a sampling error on most surveys.

Nobody is talking Sims 4 and it's not on anyone's "must get" lists. So, if you're EA and have a well-established reputation for trying to squeeze blood from a stone (so to speak), how do you drum up a measure of interest in your old-ass game? Well, reach into the special identity box and pull out something that appeals to that demographic. If it offends existing players? Well, and so what, EA already has their money. So fuck 'em, they can go and play ESO or something.

Wouldn't surprise me to see some of the game rags, especially the ones known to be troon supporters, covering this "stunning and brave" update that every genderspecial (and their allies, naturally) has to support.

If I'm right about any of this, then it's a smart move on EA's part to squeeze that stone just a little harder.

[–]Haylstorm 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was a huge fuss about adding pronouns a while back so wouldn't surprise me if it's to raise interest.

[–]GraviHeel Hortler 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Will they make it realistic though? Trannies killing themselves soon after the surgery?

[–]Haylstorm 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Surgery goes wrong and sim dies.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I want to see sims neck themselves after they get clocked in spite of their efforts (or delusions) at passing.

[–]jacques1102 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol, i know of one TIF(trans man)who used to play this game, but stopped because they found it boring and there was nothing to do in the game.This pandering isn't going to make them want to come back.

[–]BISH 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I won't join until I can be an attack helicopter.

[–]ShekelPa 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To think, their efforts have been the most effective in curbing piracy. This was all they had to do instead of using crap like SecuRom on their games.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sims is one of the few games with a majority female audience.

This is to appeal to women, not trans people.

Much like adverts with mixed race families are made to appeal to middle class whites not actual mixed people.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

why do they need to have binders why do they need any of this... if you want your sim to be the opposite gender as you are in real life then just make it a man or woman. I have a giant scar on my sternum from aortic valve replacement but i dont want a sim with a giant scar down their chest.

[–]JasonCarswellSisyphus / Ouroboros 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Inspirational.
To gullible idiots and trend whores.

[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OK, do they get ESG bucks for this or is this such a common thing now that of course they include it?

[–]BISH 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"POOL'S CLOSED"

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pander: to provide gratification for others' desires.

This sounds an awful lot like 'adding what people keep asking for', which I suspect the trannies have done often and repeatedly in reference to them wanting options to express their tranniness in games.

[–]FlyingKangaroo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m glad I never touched The Sims 4.