Regardless of its tame score, intercourse has at all times wormed its approach into The Sims sequence—I worry it is a canon occasion to Google “how you can make Sims bare” as a youngster. However it arguably did not blow up into extra mainstream simming till Turbodriver’s WhickedWhims got here alongside in 2016, providing a bundle of nudity, animated intercourse, contraception, menstrual cycles, and even STIs the place that stuff had historically been scattered throughout numerous corners of the web.
It is a type of mods that, regardless of its steamy themes, has turn out to be broadly accepted among the many neighborhood in the way in which that, for some time, your mum studying Fifty Shades of Gray in a café was all cool and dandy. Although all of us knew what these books had been about.
WickedWhims is so in style, actually, that its creator cannot fairly consider what number of simmers are galavanting round their sport with it. Turbodriver sat down with ROMchip final yr to speak about his mod and simply what number of goddamn individuals are utilizing it.
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“It is not a small neighborhood anymore,” Turbodriver mentioned. “The variety of folks enjoying with WickedWhims is so huge that I simply can’t even consider it.” When requested how huge, he mentioned: “The numbers are so big that I can not consider they’re really actual. It would not make sense to me.
“I used to be investigating that just lately. One of many issues I do with the mod is that, while you flip the sport on, it checks in case you have the latest model and when you do not, it tells you that. It does that after per day, and so the individuals who load into the sport have to connect with my server to see if the model quantity is appropriate. So, I can see how many individuals join per day, and I’ve round 300,000 day by day gamers.
“That is past regular, that is insane. I do not even perceive why that quantity is so giant, as a result of that is greater than most video games.”
I solely should assume that these numbers additionally embrace WonderfulWhims—Turbodriver’s much less horny model that nixes a lot of the NSFW stuff however retains the extra reasonable relationship techniques. At the same time as somebody who has been extremely conscious of how normalised the mod is in lots of simmers’ video games, I’ve to confess the quantity even stunned me.
However hey, if there’s one factor that folks love about The Sims, it is having whole freedom to make your foolish digital folks reside no matter life you need. And in order for you their life to be boinking each grownup in a four-tile radius, then mods like WickedWhims assist make that attainable.
