The Sims 3 berates you for having a child out of 'wedlock' Yes they use that word...

[ninja51]

Jeez, for a game that tries very hard to be unoffensive, they are kinda going the extreme religious route here. Next thing you know they'll be putting in the arguement that rape is the females fault

 

[drisky]

Certinly not the weirdest thing in the game. If you make a gay character, all the people you flirt with stop hitting on people of the opposite gender and become exclusive to their own. Basically you have the power to turn people gay.

Having looked it up online it seems to be tied to your "celebrity" status. If you do anything (and this qualifies) that the "public" deems "unsavory" as a celebrity you are shamed for 3 days.

And that makes a big difference, people are very hypocritical when it comes to the lives of celebrities, mainly because people take comfort in feeling better then them. The game was trying to say that tabloids fuck with peoples personal life, rather than saying children out of wedlock is wrong, otherwise it would have been in the game before late night came out.

 

[The Long Road]

Pretty much sums up my views on this.

Isn't it sad that the most honest discussion of being offended is on a comedy tour?

 

[drisky]

Everyone is saying that the general view of socety and the media that children out of wedlock is taboo.

I pretty much thought that was left behind in the 60's

Shows what I know.

It does still happen, It happened to two of my best friends. They were still in high school so its a bit different but still. After the birth there was so much finger pointing, rummer mongering, and people saying they we're generally disgusted. It didn't matter that having a child was the best thing that could have happened in their life, all anyone else saw was "two irresponsible idiots that don't know how to use a condom." We don't live in a perfect non judgmental society yet. People still love to be "holier than thou".

 

[Fuselage]

So randomly biting people is to be equated to having children...nice. >_>

I'll admit the system needs some work. But, heck, at least they are trying. Public opinion is something a celebrity has to deal with on a regular basis. Honestly I hope they expand on this. Something like, when you hit 3 stars you can hire a publicist.

I think what offends me is that EA judge public opinion to be that it is shameful to have a child when you are in a secure and financially stable partnership. Just because you aren't married.

I read before the release that the Sims 3 is supposed to be set in the 60's/70's.
Now all the anachronisms suggest otherwise but it would explain a lot as a gated small town community in America in the 60's/70's (60's being one of the most conservative periods, 70's being halfway there.) where everyone knew what you did and gossiped about you behind your back would be offended.
EDIT: Oh and by the way, I think this is kinda stupid but don't really care, this cannot really be some really conservative dude at EA saying "Man I saw these teens on the news the other day, they had a son without being married!11!" when two sims of the same sex can be married.
EDIT 2: Oh and the time period has all the anachronisms because of advanced science. Or something.
EDIT 3 (Electric Boogaloo): Also I noticed your sim is a celebrity which in all honesty this makes complete sense. Your critics can use this as evidence that you are evil and deserve to be shamed or something.

 

[Jimbo1212]

I think the game does a good job in filling in this vacuous hole society now posses where it use to have morals.You should not have a child out of wedlock as a child needs/is happier with both parents and if the parents do not want to be together then they should keep their legs shut.

 

[mysecondlife]

couldn't you sue for slander at city hall? I think I read it somewhere...

 

[Bobbity]

Haha, what is this, the Middle Ages?

It does kind of make sense if your Sim is a celebrity though; their being somewhat easy and all of that. Imagine if Snookie or whichever idiot you Americans are obsessed with now had a kid. What sort of reaction would you see? [footnote]Assuming that she's not already married. My knowledge of celebrity news is not exactly the best. [/footnote]


I can see where Maxis is coming from, but it's a bunch of Christian 'values' we left behind centuries ago, and it was bad taste for this to have ended up in a video game.

Oh, and don't get so worked up about it. Laugh.

 

[Izakflashman]

Dealing with public opinion is a neat feature for a celebrity IMO.

I think its super cool. If your character is held to be of a higher moral fiber you have to try harder to not land in hot water.
Even putting one foot out of the "I'm so PC it's disgusting" box and their career becomes scrapped.

I see no problem with this in general. Stop being so self righteously offended.

 

[serenityzero]

What shame is there in raising a child as a single parent? And what 'bad reasons' do people have for not getting married? Because in my experience, I've never come across any untoward reasons for people not anting to marry.

If they are a single parent for a reason like their partner died, there's no shame. But if they knowingly decide to do so it's just irresponsible and if you look into the persons history you'll always find a track record of cheating, one night-stands, etc.

One of the common reasons for not wanting to marry that I've heard is "not wanting the responsibility of marriage," yet still having kids. Which does well to show just where that person is at.

There is a very strong effort to destroy the family going on these days, as the family is the last group that has any real strength left in it now that religious groups have mostly been destroyed.

Once families are fully destroyed society will be totally screwed and civilization will end with a whimper.

Seriously dude, put away your tin foil hat and crawl out of your bunker. The nuclear family is not "under attack." It's just being exposed as a rigid and irrelevant configuration. People are more complicated than that.

 

[hazabaza1]

As a teenager raised by a single mum, I can say that this is absolutely fracking hilarious. I don't even know why, I just saw it and laughed.
Seriously, the whole single parenting thing=bad went out of fashion a while back, getting offended by it seems a bit... silly.

 

[DarkRyter]

Funnily enough, since the Sims 3 is canonically a prequel to the Sims 1 and Sims 2, that would explain the community being rather conservative.

 

[Pyramid Head]

You know i think the debuff should actually be on the developer. Allowing casual sex without in-game contra--

Wait... are there condoms in Sims 3?

 

[mirasiel]

Wow, at least the game is true to life I suppose, there are pathetic human beings who feel entitled to be massive cocks to people who make life choices they dont agree with...I can see some of them in this very thread.

 

[Thaius]

Have you seen what happens when a celebrity gets pregnant outside of marriage? Tabloids and even other journalistic publications go nuts. It's pretty unquestionably a disgrace in that situation.

Outside of that, I think it's rather sad that we see something asserting that the best context in which to have kids is a loving and committed relationship, and we decry it. Honestly? It wasn't really that long ago that society valued marriage and the nuclear family as the basis of society, and now we get all bent out of shape over a video game that does it? I find this discouraging.

 

[mirasiel]

Have you seen what happens when a celebrity gets pregnant outside of marriage? Tabloids and even other journalistic publications go nuts. It's pretty unquestionably a disgrace in that situation.

Outside of that, I think it's rather sad that we see something asserting that the best context in which to have kids is a loving and committed relationship, and we decry it. Honestly? It wasn't really that long ago that society valued marriage and the nuclear family as the basis of society, and now we get all bent out of shape over a video game that does it? I find this discouraging.

Because we all know you cant have a loving and committed relationship outside of marriage, right?

Totally impossible...doesnt happen...nope never ever....

 

[Ticonderoga77]

Well goddamn, this wasn't something I expected to see. That's really messed up. Unless the lady was riding the joystick of every dude in Simville, I don't get what the big deal is.

Now if she kidnapped the baby to keep and raise it as her own, then yeah, I'd understand the need for chiding.

 

[TheDarkestDerp]

It's pretty damn ridiculous, personally. But seeing as how marriage... eheh... is between "a man and a woman" ...I suppose this game fits in with the average patriarcho-bullshit ideals the modern society wants. What a crock...