The Sims 4 Wedding DLC is Now Releasing in Russia
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that developers sometimes must censor their games to release them in certain countries. Sometimes, this leads to relatively minor adjustments, like censoring the name of a single character, item, or enemy. Other times, however, local laws force developers to withhold sizable chunks of content.
Until now, this appeared to be the case for Russian The Sims 4 players. EA previously announced it would not release the My Wedding Stories expansion in the country, citing the country’s restrictions on LGBTQ content in media. However, the company reversed course earlier today, saying the publisher “realized we can do more than we initially believed.”
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My Wedding Stories is an upcoming The Sims 4 expansion revolving around weddings and courtship. It lets players plan elaborate marriage ceremonies, with the marketing revolving around the romance between two women named Dominique and Camille. However, Publisher Electronic Arts and Developer Maxis initially announced the expansion wasn’t coming to Russia due to the country’s federal anti-gay laws.
EA never specified which law it believed the upcoming Sims 4 content pack might violate. However, the decision was most likely about a 2013 law limiting depictions of LGBTQ relationships in children’s media. Specifically, the law states that media targeting people under 18 cannot depict homosexual relationships as normal, with the Russian government calling such content “propaganda.” The passage of which coincided with a significant uptick in anti-LGBTQ violence in the Eastern European country.
It’s unclear whether EA withheld the DLC to protest the restrictions or if the publisher feared legal consequences from the
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