Windows Vista/7/8/8.Last month, EA published an update formalizing its policy that mods for The Sims 4 "cannot be sold, licensed, or rented for a fee." But the publisher tells Ars that there is still one important exception that should ensure many Sims modders can continue to make significant income from their game-expanding creations.ĮA's new modding policy, first published July 21, is pretty direct in saying that Sims 4 mods "must be non-commercial and distributed free-of-charge" and that they can't "contain features that would support monetary transactions of any type." According to the published policy, those who want to monetize their Sims modding work are limited to indirect methods like "passive advertisements and requests for donations" on their own websites (but not within the mods themselves).ĭespite this recent formalization, this policy isn't entirely new. These do NOT get unzipped!Ĭut and paste the ZIP or RAR into your Mods folder: Script and Core mods modify game files by custom python scripts. Windows 10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\. Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/OS X: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\. Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\. That's it, you have now the package-file.Ĭut and paste the file(s) into your Mods folder: Perform a right click on the compressed file, goto "7-Zip" and select "Extract Here". To do this simply use the right click menu. Once you've downloaded the compressed modification, you have to extract the containing package-files. 
Installing Sims 4 Package Files Extracting ZIP/RAR Files While you can open ZIP-Files without problems with the built-in Zip-Extractor of Windows 7/8/8.1, you have to download additional software for RAR-Files.
Therefore, the downloads have often he ZIP or RAR format. These usually have a ".package"- extension and are often packed with a compression tool. In general, most modifications in The Sims 4 will be delivered as.
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