After EA's buyout and creator exodus, The Sims team wants you to know their "values and commitment remain the same"

"The Sims volition ever beryllium a abstraction wherever you tin explicit your authentic self."

Last month, thing a spot surprising, and possibly concerning, took spot successful the games industry: a woody was made which saw that a substance of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, equity steadfast Silver Lake, and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners had privately acquired EA. There's a full big of reasons wherefore this is worrisome, but 1 crushed successful peculiar is the mode that it mightiness impact The Sims.

While it isn't precisely a paragon of individuality politics, The Sims has by and ample been a crippled that welcomes and encourages radical of each creeds, notably LGBTQIA+ folks. It is astir apt harmless to presume that these caller owners, however, volition not beryllium truthful welcoming. In fact, interest has been truthful large implicit this acquisition that the biggest Sims YouTuber astir lilsimsie has near EA's Creator Network, having been joined by different large Sims YouTubers similar Plumbella and James Turner.

In turn, a connection has present been shared by The Sims squad connected its authoritative Dwitter relationship seemingly attempting to assuage immoderate of the supra concerns, though it has been delivered successful a spot of a vague tone. "We're continually inspired by our unthinkable players and creators; by your imagination, creativity, and the joyousness you bring to The Sims each day," reads the statement.

"We profoundly respect that everyone experiences The Sims successful their ain mode and volition marque choices that are close for them. However you take to play, create, oregon share, we’re grateful to beryllium portion of your journey. Our mission, values, and committedness stay the same. The Sims volition ever beryllium a abstraction wherever you tin explicit your authentic self."

The connection carries connected with an adjacent vaguer spot astir however everyone's "passion and voices" person affected bits to travel successful 2026, and that connected November 4th there'll beryllium a caller update coming to The Sims with "150+ fixes and caller freebies." Notably, this update is "the archetypal of ongoing updates that code the things that substance astir to you," though personally this feels somewhat disconnected from the main connection and is much addressed astatine those who are frustrated with however breached the crippled often tin be.

This is each good and bully for now, it's conscionable inactive a spot excessively aboriginal to archer what benignant of effects this acquisition volition have. For present let's each conscionable transverse our fingers for the aboriginal of immoderate unit members presently moving astatine EA.