And sure, the incident would have been a whole lot less creepy if it hadn't been in the form of a haunted doll figure.īut The Sims has always leaned into the paranormal, and with Halloween rapidly approaching, it feels appropriate to remember one of the biggest, creepiest modding scandals of the game - and remember to always double check your mods. She states in the video, 'An invisible virus that would break the game attaching itself to custom content randomly and you have no control over knowing if you're downloading it or not? I'm not surprised it turned into a little bit of a moral panic.'Īs a result of the corrupted doll incident, players became a lot more savvy when it came to the custom content they chose to download. Popular Sims YouTuber Jesse McNamara - known online as Plumbella - recently published a video on the topic as part of her 'Entire History Of' series, retelling stories from the early days of The Sims and explaining the lore of the game. Modders and developers alike worked to find a solution, with modder Glitzyangel eventually discovering a way to wipe the doll's existence from the game. The Sims 3 Nexus - Mods and community Discover The Best Online Courses Courses.

There was no escaping it - subsequent downloads of 'infected' packages would spread the doll even farther.Įventually, the tide of this corrupted doll became so strong that EA itself had to step in. Any lots or packages uploaded from games that had the doll present would find themselves uploading with the doll attached. To make matters worse, the file itself was visible neither on the Mods screen nor in the downloads folder for the game. Weird.- archived account January 18, 2021įrom lag to corrupted save files to game crashes, the doll was inadvertently responsible for countless hours of lost gameplay. You could probably find mods for it, but I doubt they would ever do that in a Sims game just because of the potential backlash that could come from it. Didn't help that the doll LOOKED like a creepy, haunted doll.

Omg just watched some video about some Sims 3 cc doll that somehow got corrupted/made in to a virus and broke a bunch of people's games and couldn't be deleted once it had infected your game.

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