Maxis intended for you to create and move in sims to keep them company but personally i’d rather have all Maxis sims in one hood. One thing that bothered me with Livin Large was the Mashuga family, who up until Unleashed were the sole residents of neighbourhood 2. Livin large mitigated this by allowing multiple neighbourhoods, but Unleashed went one step further and expanded the neighbourhood to accommodate a large amount of lots.

This meant if you wanted to use the downloaded families, they had to overwrite an existing lot in the neighbourhood, which would replace the family on the lot. Whilst skins and objects are easy to integrate into your game, lots and families are harder, especially if you had the original base game that had no support for multiple neighbourhoods. Listed as ‘Get Cool Stuff’ players were able to download free families, objects and skins to use in their game.

Over the course of the original sims lifespan, Maxis had released early forms of free DLC (Downloadable Content) for free on their website.

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