The Sims 4 has always been a game that offers players a huge array of customization options to tailor how they want their experience to play out. In another move to provide everyone with the gaming experience that best suits their needs, EA and Maxis have announced that customizable pronouns are now a part of the game. Developers felt it important to add this new feature to the game and worked closely with both the It Gets Better Project and GLAAD to “understand the use and impact of pronouns and where binary representations of gender are present”.
The new update is now available across all versions of the game and can be downloaded and installed prior to starting or continuing an adventure. The first iteration of the customizable pronouns feature is present in the English version and is the first step to becoming an even more inclusive experience for “Simmers”. The plan is to continue to update and improve the feature and to include support for other languages over time.
The feature has been fully tested and works to change out instances of default pronouns to the custom ones you may have chosen, however, there may be times when the feature doesn’t choose the correct form pronoun or it uses the default pronoun of the assigned gender. This is due to several factors such as the complexity of how the feature was implemented, as well as rules around conjugation in English. An example of something you might see is “They likes…”. In this situation, the correct grammatical structure should be “They like…,” The feature works by replacing the pronoun token itself rather than the pronoun and the following verb. In the future, we’ll be working to make sure that the text is crafted in a way that reduces this type of issue, but we will work to fix instances of this when found in previously released content.
Read more about the process for including this awesome new feature by visiting The Sims 4 official site.
