All the hours – days even – of work and it all goes down the drain in minutes.
It’s one of the most devastating things that can happen to your game.
It infested people’sgames, creating extreme lag and unplayable lots.
And it came in the form of acreepy, haunted-looking doll.
From its earliest iterations, modders would create in-game items, clothes, traits and more.
The creator who unknowingly unleashed the doll didn’t realize it was corrupt until two months after uploading.
But by this point, the doll had spread over dozens of games.
Didn’t help that the doll LOOKED like a creepy, haunted doll.
Removing it was a challenge.
Over time, the doll’s bug would spread.
Any lots or packages uploaded from games that had the doll present would find themselves uploadingwith the doll attached.
There was no escaping it – subsequent downloads of “infected” packages would spread the doll even farther.
Eventually, the tide of this corrupted doll became so strong thatEAitself had to step in.
I’m not surprised it turned into a little bit of a moral panic."
