Hell, in typing this paragraph, I just realized that a woman who sits about 30 feet from me at work dresses in nothing but suits. I see, it barely registered as a thing to notice, and I move on. I'm not suddenly hounded by the absolute horror of a woman in men's clothing or a woman with a masculine body type. But when I see a masculine woman, it doesn't wreck my day. I don't think of masculine women much myself either. Then, of course, there's this issue that you don't want to think about masculine women or feminine men. Similarly, it makes no sense that your line is drawn here, at body configuration, but you were somehow fine with the ability of things like homosexuality put into the game. You are bothered to the point that you aren't going to play Sims anymore because your option to play as you want wasn't affected? This doesn't make any sense. It's not that you're wrong or inappropriate. Internet disagreements are fine, but the fact that this has been extended in locations to actually censor disagreeing opinions and having stuff like this normalize censorship is where it is insane.
My reaction is not "appropriate", but I believe that I'm entirely allowed to have my opinion. The fact that there are now proscribed reactions. The appropriate reactions to this are "w/e I don't play the the sims" or "cool I always wanted play an androgynous new romantic" but still, probably better described as "unlocking checks" than massive amount of additional work. Undoubtedly there was a bit of work involved because a change of that magnitude about necessarily results in bugs until it's nicely wrapped up. In the end it saves countless hours of trying to get every permutation of clothing to work with every permutation of body type / size. Most likely if you, for example, wore a bikini top in the sims, there would be some on-the-fly calculations to determine how the mesh is stretched to your upper torso and chest.Ĭompared to all the other complexity of making that game, that algorithm would be relatively simple (though it may sound complicated). I would be highly shocked if that's how the sims was programmed. Arbitrary restrictions don't belong in sandbox games, IMO.
It takes an artist working to make the adjustments, and they are not necessarily trivial. Clothes mapped to one set of polygons will not look good mapped to a frame that was not considered a target during their initial creation. I think this is a good thing, but this undoubtedly took additional time and effort to implement. It probably saved the devs a few lines of code too now that the clothes dont have to do a gender check.
I understand why it's a news story but honestly it shouldn't be.
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