'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.
