Vanilla is a plant, not a gamer.

[Caldera]

Hey,
What is vanilla? I suppose they are beginner gamers but it is a plant used for make a special taste for foods.
Someone help me out, l am not sure about its meaning here...

[Madkine]

Vanilla is the game as bought from SCS. No mods, no addons, no plugins. (DLC's are ok).

[Reinhard]

It is a common English expression for a plain and conventional choice. It is many decades old. Application to games is only one of many uses.

You can choose between dozens of fancy ice cream aroma, every year some new. Or you just choose "plain vanilla".

[Truckdrivr]

you can also say its like playing the game as it comes out of the box from SCS, aka no modifications.

[plykkegaard]

Vanilla is the base flavor in icecream, no extra add-on

[Axel Slingerland]

you can also say its like playing the game as it comes out of the box from SCS, aka no modifications.

Hey... Wait a minute... You got a box?

[plykkegaard]

Don't take it literally
"out of the box" is just an expression like "vanilla"

[Caldera]

Vanilla is the game as bought from SCS. No mods, no addons, no plugins. (DLC's are ok).

Hey, thanks for your answer. I would have never guessed it. -:)

[Axel Slingerland]

Don't take it literally
"out of the box" is just an expression like "vanilla"

Not always... Amazon sells several different ETS2 DVDs in boxes. I just looked and they have 7 different items on DVDs. And of course, in order to use them, you have to take them "out of the box"...

I still prefer non-steam downloads, but thar ye have it.