Parent company EA has had a pretty long history of offering gender and sexuality choices for its other games' heroes as well. Though we can't be sure if that cross-gender customization took so long due to technical reasons, we assume it was not for political ones due to Maxis' history of supporting Sims options like gay relationships and gay marriage-which landed the game's latest entry an "adults-only" rating in Russia when it launched there in 2014. A ssumedly, prior games' 3D models of both characters and attached assets were built in such a way as to require more complicated gender-swap rebuilds of things like outfits. The company also made a statement to the Associated Press that was mindful of popular, real-life fashion choices: "Female Sims can wear sharp men's suits like Ellen, and male Sims can wear heels like Prince."įurther Reading EA working to fix block on gay name sharing in The Sims 4EA and Maxis did not comment about why those characters' clothing, animation, and other visual customizations were previously separated by gender, nor did they previously answer fans' past complaints. " The Sims is made by a diverse team for a diverse audience, and it's really important to us that players are able to be creative and express themselves through our games," Maxis said in its announcement post. Voices, walking styles, clothing, accessories, and physiques can now be applied to men and women however users see fit. That changed on Thursday with an official unlocking of The Sims 4's customization options to all grown-up Sims.
The only major exception at this point has been a delineation between the series' three types of Sims-men, women, and children-in terms of 3D character rendering.
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The Sims game series has typically offered a ridiculous number of options for how its virtual denizens live, work, play, and love-and it has never shied away from political blowback in the "love" category.