Granted, it's entirely possible some people actually bought the game and have encountered a glitch like this, too. Guides are popping up specifically telling people how to get rid of the glitch if you downloaded the game illegally, and new torrents which purport to fix the issue can also be spotted. Of course they do: the pirates don't initially know the bug happens because they torrented the game. According to various reports around the web, pirated copies of the game make Sims permanently pixellated, which gives the game a goofy, censored look-as you can see in the initial image in this post, by nihwtf.
As veteran Sims players know, the game will normally pixellate Sims when they're nude like say, when a Sim takes a bath, or goes to the bathroom.
Folks who opted to download a torrent of The Sims 4 are finding something completely unexpected: censorship.