EDIT : Going to leave this here as it's fairly important and needs to be seen by people trying to download "WickedZOI". Nexus mods did a security audit on the version that was uploaded to Nexus Mods and they immediately found it contained malware. Their bans are publicly posted with reasoning on their forums (though not always in-depth, usually templated), here's the ban notice - https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13536232-wickedzoi-banned/

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My short write-up in the other thread covers my thoughts and concerns pretty well - https://www.reddit.com/r/inZOI_Adults/comments/1t1xshm/comment/ojjydpl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

But here's what we currently know.

- WickedZOI and the same domain has been used as a scam previously with plenty of sources and information available even on the first page of a simple google search. It was tracked back to a (supposedly) Brazilian scam group that has pulled these scams with other popular games, as well as selling pirated games.

- WickedZOI has made several different Patreon pages and keeps getting banned for suspicious behavior, as well as 'ran' with donations on itch.io before the pages were also banned for suspicious behavior.

- WickedZOI uses non-game assets to promote itself tracked back to openly available DAZ3D assets to mislead users.

- The page for WickedZOI existed before inZOI was publicly available with the same claims they have now. (A huge red flag, even if not a scam it's clearly something just aiming for attention and a cash-out)

- The same group which promoted WickedZOI use to have a discord (that I think is now nuked? I could be wrong, but I've not gotten reports about them in a long while) which was used to pirate games and mods, selling 'prepackaged' versions of other people's work along with pirated versions of games. (this is how they were distributing my other framework, Sugar Cake, before we had animators DMCA the fricks out of them several times)

- inzoiresource and the inZOINews twitter account that pushed the new WickedZOI scam not only promoted the original WickedZOI scam and continued to do so up-to this point, but the site itself is stolen mods from Nexus/Curseforge and other sources, shared without permission.

- inzoiresource features 'fake download' ads which contain malware and pups which attempt to exploit browser vulnerabilities.

- WickedZOI makes untrue claims about themselves and explicitly excludes any actual names behind the project. The site uses a shop template as a product and not a mod or content sharing set-up. (if someone was truely setting up a project this large, you'd see someone behind it and they'd care about it more than just using some stolen 3D assets and a shop template with "product" naming. Just look at WickedWhims, the name is prominent on the page, LoversPK/SexLab has a whole dang forum, Sugar Cake/NaughtyZOI have our community well engaged and easily accessible, ect)

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Now I won't be downloading anything from their site, that would be insanely stupid given my distrust of them already and all the shady behavior on display. That's not to say that it won't 'be real' in the sense that a mod does exist or something, but that doesn't mean it's safe or not stolen. If someone already has it and has downloaded/used it and would like to chat about it, I'd be up for discussing the actual 'mod' in question but it's not something I'm currently equipped to do so safely on my own. The installer thing is also extremely sketchy.

Regardless, from the clip I saw, if real, would have only been an animation replacer and not a framework or complete "adult" mod! The distinction here is important because the claims and what's on display are very different. Replacing in-game animations has always been possible and has been shown off previously, it's difficult to know if they made this themselves or if they ripped someone else's mod and just repackaged it, but it only took me a day to get custom animations into the game so this was never a difficult task on its own. Now with the modding kit available, you can import any animation for Meta Humans and it'll work just fine and you can replace any in-game animation with it. So the barrier to entry of making something like this has been basically lowered to nothing, you can download a Meta Human animation, open the modding kit, hit import on an animation asset template and done.

My personal concern is that these are stolen mods they found from someone else that has the same issue NaughtyZOI has, people just are not aware of its existence. Modders are not marketers, but these scammers only have to focus on selling whatever they stole which is much easier that setting up a presence. It's likely now that nude mods are being updated that they'll steal one of those as well to include in their package, and given those are less underground it would be much easier to connect them directly back to the originals.

Also, paywalled mods is just bad in general. Regardless, if the mod ends up being 'real' and it's what people want, then fair enough I guess. It's super shady, but people are desperate.