EA's LGBT Stance Is More Important Than You Wanting To Play The Sims 4 Wedding Stories

thegamer.com:

Recently, EA revealed a wedding expansion pack for The Sims, which prominently featured an interracial lesbian couple getting married in the marketing and cover art. Shortly after it was announced, EA announced that it will not be on sale in Russia, and all hell broke loose. Many in The Sims community actively boycotted the game, the pack, and EA over this removal, and in doing so proved that they have no sense of priority, politics, or privilege beyond the lens of being able to play a video game or not.

EA explains the reason the pack will not run in Russia is because "our storytelling would be subject to changes because of federal laws." It's an excuse that holds some water. Russia has repeatedly persecuted LGBT people, and has frequently been fined, banned, or otherwise sanctioned because of racism during sporting events. It's naive to think that a pack promoted with not just a lesbian married couple, but an interracial lesbian married couple, would be all kosher no questions asked. Of course, the Simmer sleuths are on the case. This thread, by Russian Simmer Alesya Mukhina, claims that while the English language version mentions "federal laws" the Russian language version does not. Suspicious? Hardly.

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Let's take these sleuths at face value and say that they're right. EA is lying. If censorship is not the reason this pack isn't being released in Russia, what is? What possible reason could EA have for cutting off a major market and depriving itself of profits? If you can't come up with an answer - and let's face it, you can't - you have no right to complain about this. Zero.

I work in games, so I see a lot of childish things. With the possible exception of NFTs, this might be