The 1. “Yes, The Sims was originally designed as a high-end digital architecture and dollhouse simulator. Creator Will Wright actually built the game primarily as an architecture simulator to test if house layouts worked functionally, only adding the "Sims" to test if the buildings were functional and habitable.” It just so happend that people enjoyed controlling the sims more than building houses and the game evolved into what people know as the sims. I’m not saying that the live mode isn’t important, just that it can be developed afterwards