Over the past few months, some of the Simming community’s most influential Game Changers have been hinting at a secret project they’ve been working on. Now, that secret has finally been revealed! Today, James Turner, Deligracy, SimLicy, and lilsimsie have all posted videos to their YouTube channels to show off this top secret project.
EA teamed up with these Game Changers and asked them to build every lot in the world of Mt. Komorebi for the upcoming Sims 4 expansion pack, Snowy Escape. After years and years of complaints about poorly done EA builds shipping with the DLC packs, the team finally decided to hand the reins over to some of the community’s most accomplished builders. In fact, not a single lot in the world was built by anyone at EA!
Of course, James Turner, Deligracy, SimLicy, and lilsimsie all had certain restrictions and limitations they needed to comply with for this project, which they go over in more depth in each of their videos. In addition to the standard build limitations, their work was also reviewed and critiqued by EA’s cultural team to make sure that each lot was an authentic and respectful representation of both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture.
You can check out their videos down below for all the details that went into this large scale collaboration with The Sims Team!
8 Comments
Not one Japanese person. LMAO
Reply to Smash Adam
Here is a whiny person they asked game changers that are really good builders no need for them to be Japanese.
Reply to Cindee
the privileged caste always call folk calling out racism whiny – typical
Reply to Tanya
You proved yourself to be a whiny moron who likes to call people racist.
So with all of this push for greater inclusion & diversity the team did what atypical majority white corporations do, fall back on white people to interpret what represents a culture that is not their own – typical. There must be 1 Japanese builder out there that the team could’ve reached out to. – This was lazy.
Yes those 4 are popular on YouTube, but why not reach out to other builders who aren’t so popular with the majority but actually LIVE IN JAPAN!
Reply to Tanya
I think that EA saw that the non-EA build in eco-lifestyle was successful, and tried to capitalize on that idea for this pack. I personally do not know any Japanese builders, but I would have loved to to have been introduced to them so that I can get to know them. They could have waited for the next North American/European styled world in to include the popular youtubers.
Reply to Tanya
Do you know any Japanese or Japanese based youtuber or builders? I’ve come across two South Korean builders but that would’ve understandably caused more conflict than having white builders. Also th game changers were working with others who know Japanese customs and what was considered appropriate. They mentioned this in their videos. The team tried reaching out with this pack and still managed to offend some South Koreans. Likely if a Japanese person was part of their game changer EA would’ve gone to them especially if they had a youtube channel. If you wanted some random person who just happens to be Japanese build lots it will likely turn out no different from EA builds unless they build decent houses in the game as an actual player or had some architecture background.
So cool!
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