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The Sims 4 Expands Gender Customization Options

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Sims 4 logoThe Sims 4 has a new update that features an expanded Create A Sim with new gender customization options. For the first time ever, players can customize their Sims without the gender boundaries that were previously set in place.

It is now possible to create a Sim of any physique, walk style, and tone of voice. Over 700 pieces of content that were previously only available to male Sims, or only available to female Sims, has now been made available to all Sims – regardless of gender. This includes clothing, hair, jewelry, and more.

The announcement on the Sims 4 website says:

The Sims is made by a diverse team for a diverse audience, and it’s really important to us that players are able to be creative and express themselves through our games. We want to make sure players can create characters they can identify with or relate to through powerful tools that give them influence over a Sims gender, age, ethnicity, body type and more.

In order to make use of this new Sims 4 update, a person must have an internet connection and all of the Sims 4 game updates. If you have all of those things, then the new update is free. The update includes content from The Sims 4 base game and previously launched packs.

The Sims 4 Will be Single-Player Offline

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Sims4It looks like EA may have learned something from the SimCity fiasco! One of the many problems with the launch of SimCity was that players were having difficulty being able to access the game. This was, to make a long story short, due to problems that EA was slow to resolve regarding their servers. Many have said that things would have been so much better if SimCity could be played without having to be online.

Perhaps the frustrated cries of thousands of gamers have been heard by EA. They have announced that The Sims 4 will offer a “single-player offline experience”. The EA blog says:

The Sims 4 celebrates the heart and soul of the Sims themselves, giving players a deeper connection with the most expressive, surprising, and charming Sims ever in this single-player offline experience. The Sims 4 encourages players to personalize their world with new and intuitive tools while offering them the ability to effortlessly share their creativity with friends and fans.

I don’t have any details about exactly how the sharing ability will function. What I do understand is that The Sims 4 won’t require people to share anything at all with other players in order to access and play the game itself. Perhaps The Sims 4 will be able to avoid the problems that happened with SimCity.

Another interesting thing, at least to me, is that The Sims 4 is currently in development for both PC and Mac. As a gamer who uses a Mac, this makes me happy. Of course, we will all have to wait until The Sims 4 is released, sometime in 2014, before we can play it.