The doll had its start as a piece of custom content called Girl Doll Dressed, cloned from the in-game teddy bear and designed to look as though toddlers were playing with realistic dolls. The latter, however, was known for being a little less reliable - and it's there that the doll first made its appearance. Upon creation, they'd be uploaded to popular modding download websites like ModTheSims, The Sims Resource and The Sims Exchange. From its earliest iterations, modders would create in-game items, clothes, traits and more. It infested people's games, creating extreme lag and unplayable lots.Īnd it came in the form of a creepy, haunted-looking doll.Īt this time, The Sims was - as it continues to be - a haven for the modding community. In 2010, at the peak of The Sims 3 hubbub, there was a secret virus, transmitting from player to player, corrupting save files and destroying countless in-game legacies without even showing up on-screen. It's one of the most devastating things that can happen to your game. All the hours - days even - of work and it all goes down the drain in minutes. If there's one thing guaranteed to wound the very soul of someone who plays video games, it's a corrupted save file.
The doll in question would haunt Sims packages and spread from computer to computer.
