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It has that "abused wife" vibe to it. Creepy.
A simple "I missed you!" would have sufficed...Sheesh.
A simple "I missed you!" would have sufficed...Sheesh.
...but women dont play games!
(not even the oft quoted 60% of Sims PC gamers who are apparently female, and I bet thefacebook stats are at least as high. Stupid marketing given their demographics!)
(not even the oft quoted 60% of Sims PC gamers who are apparently female, and I bet thefacebook stats are at least as high. Stupid marketing given their demographics!)
Umm, that's an art asset they reuse all the time. It also mentions fixing all the broken stuff in the house, so would it be offensive if they used a picture of a guy?
Wait, hold the phone. Most Sim players are girls, right? Was this message customized for men or did women get the same thing?
The correlation of an abused housewife/forlorn girlfriend with an object of play is quite a creepy insinuation.
Cleaning the whole house and fixing things makes a lot of sense for this mail, because when you are away for too long everything breaks in your virtual home. Grass overgrow, appliances break, water systems collapse, etc. By fixing everyhing, your sim gets happier and could also get "Inspired". While Inspired, you get bonuses for learning professions and doing other stuff. Also, the mail is signed "your sim" (i.e. anyone), and the cute redhead is just a reference. If the picture was a nice young boy you would be bitching about child abuse.
Check your facts first and stop trying to make controversy please.
Check your facts first and stop trying to make controversy please.
What you did wrong? You were laggy, tedious, eliminated some of the good things about the series while keeping the problems that I've always had with the Sims-series while introducing a lot of the problems that Facebook games have!
When I first saw you, I thought you had changed! You gave me the impression that you were a better game now! But you weren't. I let my guard down and I got hurt. That's what I did wrong. But you are an even worse game now than you ever were. That's what you did wrong!
And now you want me to come back?! Go away, Sims Social! I never want to see you again! *cris and runs away*
When I first saw you, I thought you had changed! You gave me the impression that you were a better game now! But you weren't. I let my guard down and I got hurt. That's what I did wrong. But you are an even worse game now than you ever were. That's what you did wrong!
And now you want me to come back?! Go away, Sims Social! I never want to see you again! *cris and runs away*
@Jorge Santos and Aaron
Because "cleaning the house from top to bottom" has totally been dubbed the work of nice young boys and guys, right? Because you can totally just replace anything and say "What if this? Ha!"
Sometimes people miss the point entirely in their weird need to defend whatever little hobby they have.
Because "cleaning the house from top to bottom" has totally been dubbed the work of nice young boys and guys, right? Because you can totally just replace anything and say "What if this? Ha!"
Sometimes people miss the point entirely in their weird need to defend whatever little hobby they have.
is this article a joke? so troll-jaded i can't tell anymore these days. EA are wankers but that isn't an excuse to take offense at EVERYTHING they do.
UncleReg brought up a good point. The Sims Social can see your Facebook profile, it knows what gender you are. I'd be very surprised if this was the message everyone sees. It's much more likely that this is what male players see-- maybe even just male players who meet certain other demographic criteria-- and that there's a different message for female players.
Would we be as creeped out if it were a male sim with a "baby I know I done you wrong, I swear baby I've changed my wicked ways," message?
Would we be as creeped out if it were a male sim with a "baby I know I done you wrong, I swear baby I've changed my wicked ways," message?
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