'And so we're like, hey, you get to define it any way you want. 'I think there's a whole generation of people who are sick of gender roles being shoved down their face,' said Humble. Or, you could make a world in which everyone is gay, or everyone is non-binary-whatever you want. So if you're like, hey, 'I want to make a world where it's full of people who just fall in love with me, and I'm the only sexual interest in this world,' you can do that.' 'But when you create your game, you can change those any way you want by percentages. 'By default, all of the settings for gender, skin tones, and sexual preferences are set by me,' Humble said. I think there's a whole generation of people who are sick of gender roles being shoved down their face. In their explorations of identity, some players will want to recreate life in a town that's demographically like their own, while others may prefer fantasy, and Life By You will support either choice. If I were worried about the privacy of my in-game activities, I'd rather play a game that doesn't include any telemetry at all over one that does, even if I'm promised it's safe or given the option to turn it off. I've never heard of in-game telemetry being used against someone by a government, but anonymization and data security are never perfect. There's no in-game telemetry gathering data that could, for example, go to a hostile government.' 'Like, hey, how would I feel to have kids, or to date a guy or a girl? So it's very important for this community, in this day and age, to know that this is a private experience. 'People around the world often use life sims to explore, for example, their sexuality,' said Humble.

It's how EA is able to say that there were 289 million 'WooHoos' last year across all the world's Sims 4 games. Rod HumbleĪnd because the opportunity to safely explore sexuality and identity is a big draw of life sims, according to Humble, Life By You won't include something that The Sims 4 does: telemetry, which refers to the transmission of anonymized gameplay data back to a developer for analysis.

There's no in-game telemetry gathering data that could, for example, go to a hostile government. Life By You is 'specifically designed' to make adult mods possible, he told me. Life By You also includes visible nudity for players who turn off censorship shaders, and although it won't feature explicit sex scenes (that happens under the covers), Humble is well aware of what the most popular Sims mod category is.

Adult mods for sims 4