What about those who are disabled who might not want the game? Its 50/50 thing. It was certainly an interesting conversation.'

There was one SimGuru who disagreed though, who thought it was too serious an issue. However, I had a conversation with some other SimGurus at lunch about this, and the general opinion was that including disabilities could be good if (1) it didn't use all our animation budget and (2) it was something players could opt into. If it's just a more general poll, then we'd be worried it might disappoint players if it took years before we eventually did it. 'That's the sort of thing that we might do if we were heavily considering it for a pack in the very near future. As a player, I'd personally love to see that kind of thing in The Sims!'Īnd as for a poll like the one you have here: Perhaps minor disabilities would be more feasible to implement. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would probably require an expansion that has disabilities or health as a major component so that we'd be able to justify spending all the extra time there. For example, if we wanted to have a wheelchair-bound Sim, we would have to make new animations for all of the touching social interactions (kiss, hug, greet, slap, fight, etc), new bathe animations, new bed get-ins, new ways to interact where other Sims would use chairs, and so on. The hardest part about disabilities is that most of them would require tons of new animation and scripting - maybe 10x what some other feature would cost. Disabilities in The Sims could be fun and/or meaningful if we handled them carefully. Or how would a mean sim act to someone in a wheelchair without it being offensive or one of those stereotypes?Īnd I did ask a Gru once on his blog and this is what he responded: Click to expand.Me: there's also the problem about how to handle disablties without using old sterotypes like 'Evil' or temporary disabled.

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