why are sex mods rare?

[Xelthaar]

with how horny the human race is you'd expect to see them all over the place, but most games they don't see the light of day outside a few like bethesda games sims and honestly thoose are the only two i can think off.

there are thousands of nude mods, but only a few sex mods why is that?

 

[Guz89]

A lot of work for something that is hard to monetize, at least that's what I think

 

[Tunari1976]

I would think that maybe they are not so easy to make in some games. Some games are so much easier to mod like bethesda, bioware games and you can find plenty of good sex mods for those games from loverslab.com

 

[Xelthaar]

I would think that maybe they are not so easy to make in some games. Some games are so much easier to mod like bethesda, bioware games and you can find plenty of good sex mods for those games from loverslab.com

mass effect has a sex mod? i don't remember seeing any on loverslab.

 

[ErzuzB]

Because it's not an easy thing to do.
Bethesda games are very moddable, but for most games everthing is hardcoded and thus not even possible or it's not very accessible.
It's like having to take apart everything and find out how it works by yourself, learing to code everything from anew.
Too much work for its outcome.

 

[Danv]

not every game have good modding support + doing animations is hard, time consuming and requires some decent skills + "sex mods" involves very extensive modding overall and not everyone want to commit to such degree, it's not just flip some variables, adjust a function and your done

 

[Tunari1976]

mass effect has a sex mod? i don't remember seeing any on loverslab.

If not directly from their site, you can still check or ask in their forums if there are any in other places

 

[Neurasiatic]

As others have said, it's because of the difference in both complexity, effort, and time. Nude mods are usually not that hard to create, as it can be as simple as a sprite modification or a model swap, which most of the time doesn't even have anything to do with the code and is just modifying assets.
For a full-blown sex mod though you need to actively change the game code, write custom dialogue, interactions, animations (which are more complex in 3D games than sprite-based games as well), etc...
Hence why this is not often done. Skyrim is an exception as the game is very easily moddable (removing part of the technical barrier) and its huge popularity means there are both programmers interested in undertaking such a task and an audience for it. Apart from that sex mods are usually done for 2D sprite-based games, again because the code complexity and animation complexity are a lot smaller.

 

[Republican Bear]

Basically because some engines are a bitch to mod and greed from publishers, and of course DRM.

Bethesda has a good mod scene because the format hasn't changed for decades.

 

[Navri]

A few conditions must be fulfilled in order to get a sex mod.
1. It has to be possible to mod the game. If the developer implepents literally 100 safe fails in order to prevent modding, then there is simply no modding possible. Someone might manage to circumvent all those fail saves and create a modding possiblity, but it would be a lot of work for god knows how little return.
2. The modding for the game has to be achievable. If it is something like the old dwarf fortress where you need only to write some HTML code, then there will be a lot of modders. If you need to learn a code language that has been abandoned by time your ancestors started to experiment with fire, and have to make sacrifices to the old ones for the language to even work, then a loooot less people will even try. Tools like Bethesda's creation kit also help a lot.
3. There must be someone who can even do the modding. If there is no one then there will be no mods.
4. The person from 3 must be willing to make a porn mod.
5. He has to distribute the thing. I have once made a mod for Rimworld for only myself. The mod existed, but only for me, so one could say it did not exist at all for the rest of the internet.

 

[thiagodias]

I wish there were mods to make the sex scenes in The Witcher 3 longer or more explicit.

 

[bartbaker356]

with how horny the human race is you'd expect to see them all over the place, but most games they don't see the light of day outside a few like bethesda games sims and honestly thoose are the only two i can think off.

there are thousands of nude mods, but only a few sex mods why is that?

yea main issue is monetization

 

[yesplznothxkk]

They are not though... Sims4, Skyrim, Fallout all have WickedWhims and a ton of other mods. Which games do you feel is missing a sex mod?

 

[alphawhiskey220]

Since the amount of sex games we have available I feel like sex mods are just... redundant at this point

 

[magistrate]

Takes more effort than it is worth.

 

[Dark_Siren]

also restrained by engine of games

 

[User_80256]

You forgot about Sims 4 - the number of sex mods there is in the thousands. As for Fallout 4 - there is enough only a hundred mods to turn the game into something unattainable for the developers of the games presented here.

 

[misaki002]

I would say its given by the fact that it is probably easier to create something than trying to crack something. Also when u create something u can create it to be in your preferred way.

 

[Silwith]

Work, work and work.

For those games that got a framework for it (like Fallout 4, Skyrim, Sims) the Mods exploded fast, but for most games you would have to first build that framework, make the stuff possible, do the animations, ect... nude mods are very very common because they are in most cases realtivly easy to do, actual sex mods need muuuuuch more work if you don't have a framework to build on.

 

[Dorya11]

Depends on the game. Bethesda games and Sims 4 got a shit ton of mods, Rimworld too.