EA likes its profanity the way it likes its espresso: filtered. No surprise, then, {that a} current replace to The Sims 4 has taken a scouring brush to the sport’s gallery, purging it of “wholly unacceptable content material” and making updates to the sport’s profanity filter to forestall folks from importing unwholesome content material in future.
“We’re conscious of and have seen some choose situations of wholly unacceptable content material that has been uploaded to The Sims 4 Gallery,” reads the update on EA’s official Sims 4 blog (opens in new tab), which says the sport’s staff has “reviewed, and made essential updates to, the profanity filter to assist forestall this from taking place once more sooner or later”.
Unhelpfully, the put up does not truly go into any element about what this epidemic of unacceptable content material was earlier than exhorting gamers to maintain a watch out for extra of it in future, and it is not just like the Sims is brief on gross stuff. Perhaps folks had been importing reminiscences of that bug that made Sims want to date their family members (opens in new tab), or maybe everybody was getting too enthusiastic about WooHooing werewolves (opens in new tab). The chances are countless.
Admittedly, we are able to most likely make a fairly good guess as to the sort of stuff folks had been importing, nevertheless it’d be useful to have one thing a bit extra particular to go on than a basic ‘Stay cautious’. Simply maintain your head on a swivel in that gallery, I suppose.
It has been an enormous 12 months for The Sims. Not solely did all of us get to relive our most awkward and gangly years in July’s High School expansion pack (opens in new tab), however EA got here out and introduced The Sims 5 (opens in new tab) in October. It is going by the codename “Undertaking Rene” in the meanwhile, and past a quick snippet of gameplay we do not know a lot about it. It is tremendous early in improvement although, so do not feel too unhealthy in case you lately splashed out on a load of Sims 4 DLC. It is going to be the present model for some time to return.
