Several older Sims 4 blog posts related to LGBTQ+ initiatives disappeared from EA's website this week, triggering alarm across the community. EA has since said the removals were caused by a backend website migration, not a deliberate scrubbing of inclusive content.
What went offline
Players first spotted the missing pages on August 20, when links to long-standing EA blog posts began returning 404 errors. The posts affected include the 2019 It Gets Better collaboration, Pride-related feature roundups, and gender-inclusion update pages that have been part of The Sims 4's public record for years.
The timing made the disappearance especially concerning. EA is now owned by a group of investors that includes Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of a country with a well-documented record of hostility toward queer people. When the acquisition was first announced, this was one of the community's primary worries, and seeing LGBTQ+ content vanish without explanation brought those fears right back to the surface.
The initial claims were only part of the story
A widely shared post on X from alalasims reported the missing pages as targeted deletions. But replies quickly pointed out that the problem extended well beyond Pride content. Non-LGBTQ+ blog posts from the same 2019 to 2021 window were also returning errors, including the Eco Lifestyle reveal post and the pre-release article on Henford-on-Bagley. Even EA's announcement about being ranked a top employer for LGBTQ+ people was offline, alongside routine patch notes and pack announcements with no connection to inclusivity topics.
According to one community member who tracked the issue, roughly 95 percent of EA blog posts from that era are currently inaccessible, and the same thing happened during a site migration in 2025, before the acquisition closed.
EA's response
After the discussion spread, The Gamer reached out to EA for comment. A spokesperson said the company is actively migrating the backend of its website from one provider to another, and that older articles will disappear and reappear during the process rather than being targeted for deletion. The It Gets Better collaboration page has already been restored, and EA says the remaining posts should come back once the migration is finished.
Other diversity-related pages on EA's site, including its main inclusion page, remain accessible.
Why the concern was reasonable
Even with the technical explanation, the reaction was not unfounded. Diversity and inclusion have been defining strengths of The Sims franchise. The series was one of the first major games to feature same-sex relationships, and The Sims 4 has steadily expanded its representation options over the years, from sexual orientation settings to pronoun choices and gender-inclusive customisation. Any sign of that history being erased, intentional or not, is worth questioning.
EA's explanation is consistent with the wider pattern of broken links across many topics and timeframes, but the company would do well to finish the migration quickly. Keeping years of inclusive content behind 404 pages is a bad look regardless of the technical reason.