Rod Humble, King of the Sims A portion from Stuff.co.nz Although he’s generally been involved in producing The Sims games, Humble appears as a Non Player Character in an expansion pack for The Sims 2, Free Time. “It wasn’t my idea and I objected at the time. It didn’t feel right. “At the time there were threads on The Sims forums – we’ve got a community of about 5 million people that visit each day – and one of the top threads was Top 10 Ways To Kill Rod Humble. Another was Top 10 Ways To Have Sex with Rod Humble.” Forum members later created mutant children and started a forum called Top 10 Ugliest Kids You Can Have With Rod Humble. “It was very disturbing,” he says. Before he started working with The Sims, Humble had been involved with Sony Online’s Everquest studio, and before that worked on some other online games. He now heads EA’s Play label, which focuses on causal titles and attracting new gamers. Wow…I feel kind of bad for the dude.* While playing games, we tend to forget that the actor portraying characters are real life people – with feelings…And it must feel very awkward when you read that your fans want to kill or make whoopie with you…* :S
On a positive note at least the many sim fans take their frustration with the bugs we contend with out on a digitized character and not the real one.
