Zeanna C.

I've been modding video games for YEARS. Skyrim, MHW, Spore, Minecraft, and even something as simple as Townscraper-- I have seen plenty of websites hosting for modders and their consumers. Forums, Lost websites and even the bigger dogs like Nexus and Tumblr for modded content.

The Sims Resource is THE WORST website for modding I've ever had the displeasure of putting up with by far.

Right off the bat, you cant search unless you manually type inside the address bar-- even then- you have to know WHAT to type. So fine, move past that-- The website, like many others, ask you kindly (at first) to not use adblock. Which is fine, free content websites deserve to run their ads to stay up and running-- usually if it's tolerable i don't mind doing that at all!

But its not until you download something you realize it will prevent you from downloading things--and this is after you've been forced to wait though a 15 second timer (which goes on longer if you focus another time, mind you.) And if you do it again it will force you to wait a minute and then proceed to deny you the CC-- forcing you to do I all over again. Worst yet-- it will keep happening sometimes even if you've shut it down- deleting cookies and restarting your browser via closing and reopening all tabs. So, you've gone the entire time without the item you want. This wouldn't be so frustrating if people didn't post each, tiny little furniture piece in separate downloads, worsening the risk and making you wait sometimes several minutes. Which-- you can only download ONE AT A TIME. Unless of course you use the VIP!

God, the VIP... Nexus has something similar, so do a few other websites for any modding- which sometimes isn't that bad. Nexus only throttles downloads and hides ads, Pretty standard and harmless; But TSR hides almost everything user friendly behind a paywall. No wait times, downloading multiple things at once, no ads, usable search bar, a download history. A search bar should be available for your creators sake. You cant even look up specific creators unless you hope you stumble on their work or type it in the websites address bar.

And for a single (already expensive (unless you wave a Jolly Roger flag)) game I play on and off? I am not doing that.

The sheer quantity of ads make the website sluggish, and I have an high end PC and solid internet-- everything takes so long to load and sometimes the ads keep showing up to the point you cannot see a good 40% of the screen if you're unlucky and get the overlay banners. Or even unluckier-- The video ads unmute all at once for some god forsaken reason. It looks absurd and honestly enough I've sent screenshots as jokes to my friends.

TL; DR -- Bad UI, Bad wait times, VIP is predatory and almost forced. Actively unusable if you get an adblock detection bug. Avoid at all costs, honestly. It's barely even worth it if you're looking to download many things in one go.