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Are you ok with that cart button? ππ’
Lenny_Ogg
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In this post EA_Cade said, that he will forward our concerns and he needs numbers to put behind this information.
We could create these numbers in this poll and I only give two options to make it very clear:
Are you ok with that cart button? ππ’
Yes or No?
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Are you ok with that cart button? ππ’ 194 votes
NO! That button is annoying/causes me health problems etc
92%
179 votes
YES! I have no problems accepting that button
7%
15 votes
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Don't like it
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I voted NO because we have already enough ways to buy content we want, when we want it.
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I go directly to the Sims4 game screen usually from a Sims4 Taskbar icon and expect that that will be the norm soon, so the button in the game would be the way to purchase new packs. Doesn't worry me.
If I made x options each would get ~ 20% and that would bring us nowhere.
We need to pull together here to be heard.
If EA_Cade submitts the results of the poll and says '90% say no', then we made a point.
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I'm afraid though that many people who are annoyed with the shopping card button don't notice this poll because it is in the feedback section of the forums. I only saw it by chance, because someone shared the link. Usually I never look in this section of the forums.
Would it be possible to move it to the General discussions or to open there a thread that links to this thread? Or for those of you who use twitter X maybe you could share the link there?
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It's absolutely unnecessary in any sense. When we are IN GAME is not the time for ads, we see them when the EA launcher pops up even though we clicked the shortcut for the game. We see them when the game loads (side note I like them here better than dealing with the EA app, but they take up WAY too much space) When we're done playing and want to close the game, guess what? Here is the EA launcher again. NOT LAUNCHING ANYTHING, because it restarts when you close the game. If I wanted to see it AGAIN I wouldn't have closed it out.
When the uproar started I was onboard with it just not blinking, but then it set in how ridiculous it really was. A 'test feature' should never be forced out randomly. There was no way they actually thought no one would care or notice. If they CARED about what we actually thought they would have been expected they might have to take it out. If they had just given us a non annoying version to begin with it still wouldn't have gone well, though I think less people would have been as vocal and stirred up the payers of the game so well... They should have done that. I am inclined to believe though they made it 'buggy' so they could fix it up fast and then we'd just be happy it didn't blink... right?
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe this will blow over and they only lose a vocal few, but I'm one of them. I am not buying anything from EA/Sims/Maxis or brands that are associated from them going forward until at least the button is gone and then I will still be evaluating going forward. I expect better if they want my money 25+ years I have been enjoying sim titles. I had every single pack for The Sims through The Sims 4 Horse Ranch (with the exception of some of the kits, they add nothing, and are never on sale) I'd say you actually care but you and I both know that that $3,000+ is yesterday's money so who cares That I won't be spending another couple hundred... because regardless of how this goes down, I am done with Sims after Sims 4...
The 2~ish years I had sims 3 at 1.67 with updates off and finding mods that could be stable because I didn't update my game were the smoothest sims games I have ever had. I regret that I allowed myself to be lured away from create-a-style to the extra-maxisish style you gave us weird options with 4 you really did.
I have gotten past the fact that your product is overpriced. I have gotten past the fact that you suck at having any sort of consistency with what you are actually doing. (pack refreshes, different formats for communication 'going forward' that last for now I believe you broke the record recently with the 3rd something or rather... direct maybe? I don't even distinguish them in my brain anymore, lets see 3 had a whole bunch of messy promotional crud, but anything we actually liked never happened again, all the way back to the freaking rat in a cage... Free content every Thursday! turned into a handful of random things over the course of a couple months and then dwindled off to nothing... that of course was not important once the DRMA thing blew up (sidenote I do know that technically who is in charge of what now had nothing to do with older problems, but it's still the crud the community had weathered over the years, and remember that no matter how many times EA, Maxis, or Whoever plays hot potato with the franchise, the baggage remains) I dealt with having horses (S3) I could only design, not even freaking PLAY with because they turned into demons of distortion constantly. Bugs all over the place, needing mods to fix half the things that went wrong, because I understood that testing every single feature combination was nearly impossible. But your track record on fixing bugs has just gotten worse and worse. I dealt with the time I clicked to buy a small bundle of points and your site CHANGED IT and charged me for the largest bundle and then took WEEKS to refund my CHRISTMAS money... I have gotten past the fact that honestly all I can really do is "shop" for CC, create nice looking sims and cheat/storytell my way through the game any more, because it's BROKEN... But I will not be looking past this.
I can tell you that I have not had a single speck of interest in Sims 5, even theoretical interest, ever. (beyond hoping that after you release it you immediately stop messing with 4 so I can get my game under control, maybe even some semblance of actually PLAYING again) First because once I did start playing 4 and got used to the controls and the absolute letdown of waiting AGES to get even some of the most basic content I knew I wasn't ready and so far nothing that has been shown for Rene/5/whatever is just not that interesting. I can and will be tuning out of even remote attention to your series going forward. The amount of work you'd have to put into making the Sims 4 right again to even have a chance is almost inconceivable (Don't worry I will make you a list, though I think it would take a miracle to fix this)
There is however a *small* chance that I will break down and buy my 'missing' packs, (heck, I'm still wondering where my fairies and bands are) and go from there until 4 ends, and maybe you really will make enough from this to make up for those you alienate so you don't care... but if you want my money, the cart button needs to go.
All that being said, I'm not too bothered by it personally. In the course of my life I've mastered the skill of ignoring stuff I don't want to put up with, and in the long run this shopping cart will fade into the background along with many other game features I don't use, like CAS story mode, scenarios, NAPs, etc. But with many of those other features, I know for certain that someone else wants and/or needs them. This thing? Not so much. It's nothing but a cause of unnecessary drama that could have been so easily avoided.
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I don't use MCCC.
Right now it's completely useless because the game already shows the worlds and packs that you don't own yet.
Including the Gallery reminds you constantly what content is missing in your game.
If TS4 become like The Sims FreePlay, it would make sense.
The Sims 4 Ideas Corner
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionIn TS3 there is the In-game Store (World, CAS and Build/Buy mode) but it can be disabled.
https://store.thesims3.com/shopMode.html
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionOh I disabled that ages ago I forgot that was even there
I have the same issue when they previously changed the UI, I often click the wrong button (B/B mode) when I want to go back to the World Map.
UI changes are always disturbing when you have habits.
The Sims 4 Ideas Corner
- π [CAS] Male content | π° Β§1 Million Lifestyle | βοΈ Man lifestyle for The Sims | β»οΈ Content from The Sims
- π¨ [Build/Buy Mode] Ideas | π± Ideas from The Sims FreePlay | βοΈ Vacation : Gameplay update | π₯¦ New meals
The Sims 4 General DiscussionThe Sims 4 Ideas Corner
- π [CAS] Male content | π° Β§1 Million Lifestyle | βοΈ Man lifestyle for The Sims | β»οΈ Content from The Sims
- π¨ [Build/Buy Mode] Ideas | π± Ideas from The Sims FreePlay | βοΈ Vacation : Gameplay update | π₯¦ New meals
The Sims 4 General Discussion