The ban has been lifted and the pack will release WORLDWIDE Next Week!
The Sims Team has just released a statement regarding the ban of The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack in Russia!
The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack has been delayed for next week so that EVERYONE gets the chance to play it, including Russia. The team also confirmed that the cover art in Russia will remain UNALTERED and UNCHANGED.
WE TOLD YOU IT WAS POSSIBLE!
February 16, 2022
An Update on My Wedding Stories
To our Simmers,
Last week, we shared the below update about our upcoming game pack “My Wedding Stories.” At the time, we believed that our team could not freely share the storytelling of same-sex couple Cam and Dom in Russia and decided the best way to uphold our commitment to sharing their story was to not release this pack there.
Since then, we’ve been listening to the outpouring of feelings from our community including both support for our decision and concern for their fellow community members. It’s equally important for us to stand by our values, including standing against homophobia, and to share stories like this with those who want and need it most.
With this in mind, we’ve reassessed our options and realized we can do more than we initially believed and we will now release The Sims 4 “My Wedding Stories” Game Pack to our community in Russia, unaltered and unchanged, featuring Dom and Cam.
We want the entire Sims community to be able to celebrate together, so we’re pushing the global release of “My Wedding Stories” to February 23 – including in Russia.
Love is love, and The Sims community will continue to be a safe space for those who want to see a world where that is true for everyone. We are thankful for the support of our team and our values even when it is hard. Thank you for being a part of The Sims.
The Sims Team
It won’t necessarily be released on the 21st right? Just in that week. And the rest of the world won’t get it tomorrow either, by the looks of it.
So what. I prefer letting everyone wait a bit longer if anyone can play afterwards – to getting it earlier myself while a group of players is excluded.
I understand that people might be impatient when they are looking forward to the release so much – but in the end, just in one week you won’t care anymore about the delay. 😉
When I wrote my reply the article didn’t mention the rest of the world would get a delayed release – it just said it would be released in Russia on the 21st. I think it’s very late to announce the release date is postponed. EA should have thought this through beforehand.
Thinking about it again, I might have misunderstood you. No offence.
BTW “thinking through” is the keyword in this case. I doubt that they really thought anything through at all.
Yea you did. All I did was gently correct the statements made in the article, but they updated it since.
Even though the truth is that the ban wasn’t due to the law, the pushback of the date and this “update” will have people think we as a community affected this when it feels like a PR stunt now.
Also, the fact that like with the full push for Black representation at the beginning of the lockdown, it took the big white allies(namely lilsimsie) to not do an early access review of the pack to get this going.
This is plain out BS!!! EA plays with Simmers emotions I can tell you EA would not pull this on sports games or any other game those communities would not tolerate such BS!!! I am sick & tired of EA always delaying crap!!!! I believe too that this is a stunt!!!!
They’ve pulled bs with their other games, they released a mess of a game with the latest Battlefield so badly people have a petition to get refunds/force EA to fix the game. But this is honestly the 1st time I’ve seen them use a specific part of their community as a stepping stone then use the fact the big sponsered content creators have sided with the victims to appease said side of the community.
This is Purely a Publicity Stunt on the Part of EA… I am happy that Everyone will get to play it, but it should be released when they said it was on the 17th… This is BS as far as I am concerned
I believe it was always a publicity stunt, all along, making Russia their target, and many Russian players have said on Twitter that this is what they believe that happened. It really was no necessary to ban the pack, just put a 18+ label, like the rest of the game in Russia
there is irl politics with Russia happening atm, it possibly has everything to do with that. EA wanted to use it as a reason to give PR to an otherwise medicore GP so they can potentially boost eyes on it.
While I’m glad that Russia will also get the pack, not sure why the release in other countries has to be delayed. I was so excited about tomorrow’s release.
me too. i was waiting this whole day toplay it to find out after school that it was delayed.
this is really ridiculous, all sims players in the world are being deprived!!!!!
Although this whole situation is really weird, I’m glad everyone gets to play with this pack.
Yeeeei, I can wait, everyone can wait, we need more empathy, world! Thanks for the hard work Sims Team! ¡Gracias!
God you guys never stop complaining…they are giving you what you want and they probably do need more time to re-program the launch and adjust servers…calm down and wait! You got what you all wanted anyway
Well. Good work, EA PR department.
LOL, right?
Sorry but I no forgot than they claimed it was due russia anti gay propaganda law when was purely their
decision
PD: How many lawyers and CM cost this wrong move?
This is not fair to the players who were looking forward to it tomorrow. It’s good Russia will be able to play but they should have had two separate releases. Players shouldn’t be punished because of Russia’s issues.
This is ridiculous – they could easily release it to Russia next week and make it available sooner to everyone else. Why punish the whole world for Russia’s alleged laws. Is this just to cover up that they need another week to work on the pack glitches?
Edit:
I just wanted to add that I am very happy that everyone will be able to access this pack and that if its the case that there is simply no way that the pack can be released in two different areas on two different days then I am happy to wait so everyone can have it. It would just be nice for EA to give more transparency on the matter. Even if there are glitches to be fixed I am happy to wait, I just wish they would tell us this 🙂
:/ this is turning me off.. literally a day before the release? Like this is the first weekend I’ve had off in forever and will probably be the only one I have off for a while
I was all excited to spend the day playing tomorrow because we’re getting a snowstorm, so I’m stuck in the house all day, anyway. I don’t like that they waited until the last minute to delay it. They didn’t have to punish everyone else just for Russia. They could easily have just done two separate release dates. This announcement just killed any excitement I had for the pack.
Glad Russia can get the new pack too but very annoyed it’s being released next week. I was so excited about being able to play it over my 3 day weekend as the 21st is a holiday for me but now I can’t.
Why? Why? I was really looking forward to it! Instead they’re gonna release one of these dumb Kits, or so I think! Cuz those bring in more money!
They are still releasing My Wedding Stories
I know……..
I don’t think that it’s fair to blame Russia for the delay of the pack. There’s an article here saying there are issues with the wedding venue lot type and I’m sure there are more bugs of this kind which they need to fix before the release. Now devs will need 1-2 days to fix the issues, afterwards QA should check the fixes and on top to do the regression of the entire release again.
I’m very much looking forward the pack, but in the end one more week is not that long.
I’m glad they’re keeping the original cover in Russia, but this whole ordeal feels very, very performative.
This all should’ve been sorted out before the pack was announced/finished, which is a phrase I seem to end up saying with every Sims 4 release lol. The fact that the delay is worldwide makes me think the Russia stuff is just a cover for the pack not being ready.
I’m glad they’re keeping the original cover in Russia, but this whole ordeal feels very, very performative.
This all should’ve been sorted out before the pack was announced/finished, which is a phrase I seem to end up saying with every Sims 4 release lol. The fact that the delay is worldwide makes me think the Russia stuff is just a cover for the pack not being ready.
Jovan, I just would like to thank you for your support from the bottom of my Russian heart! We, Russian simmers, are really grateful for everything you’ve done! Thank you and take care <3
SO I called off work for nothing. Thanks EA.
this whole situation has taught me that the word “ban” is somehow difficult for a lot of people to understand. anyway, great job sims fans, you convinced them to call off a protest!
why could they not bring it out tomorrow or monday world wide. because i really looked out for it like a lot of people (even the russian people) and now need to wait one more week. its not to be mean but i’m just a bit sad about it. I’m still happy tho that they will bring it out world wide now. I know some russian people who also looked out for it and when they first heared the pack would not come out in their country they got sad and mad. But now they are really happy. altough i think it was all a stunt. i’m now not as exited before because of that.
I am glad that Russia players will get to have this pack – but seriously… for us who have been counting down the days to have it – it’s a HUGE let down to come home from work, excited all day to get home to get it and then discover this… frankly its very disappointing!! Not happy at all.
Why’s the person who wrote this seem so happy it’s delayed? That just annoys me even more with all the exclamation points.
This is the reason buggy messes are being pushed out, the consumer has no bloody patience.
Its a game pack that got delayed a week oh boo hoo, geeze “grown up” people need to stop throwing a temper tantrums just because they are slightly inconvenienced.