The Sims design mastermind Will Wright says the first Sims ever made were "too good" at staying alive and needed to be stupider for the game to be fun

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So good, in fact, that the Sims actually managed to outplay the players in a way.

“Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot.”

Suddenly, things could take a turn for the worse very quickly.