Recent Discussions
Forum Navigation - browsing posts issue
When browsing the list of posts and then reading one, afterwards either using back button or forum breadcrumbs, I’m always returned to the top of the list rather than where I was in the list that means I have to scroll back down every time to where i was - very tedious Doesn’t or can’t the forum track where I punched into a post? or is there some setting I’m missing
Why Am I Not Being Notified About Things On The EA Forums?
I am following the Info Hub, General Discussion, Feedback categories. I am following the Announcement and Patch Notes tags. Everything is turned on and set to Immediately or Daily Digest in my Follows & Notifications account settings. I'm not being notified via Email about Announcement/Patch Notes posts, replies to my threads, replies to my comments, etc.
New Sims Forum Feedback
Hi! This is for the team at EA who are hopefully picking up on feedback and looking to constantly improve these new forums. What I’d like to stress, and ask for from all us lovely Simmers, is that this isn’t a place for being overly negative, aggressive or angry towards the team or specific staff. I’ve seen quite a few reactions that are just that and if we want to improve things, while we don’t have to be overly positive either, we need to be constructive at least. Having been a member of the original Sims forums and the newer rendition in recent years, I think it’s fair to say what keeps the forums running is the sense of community. So a few things I think that would help this would be: customisation for profiles - avatars, signatures, adding social media links or blogs/websites so we can find each other elsewhere. Paying specific attention to each rendition of the game, the Sims 3 community is massive and has been around a lot longer. So please consider us when making changes! I can see the sims 4 forum/threads already have plenty more tags and options than ours do as well as sub forums that we haven’t been able to keep. We have a whole community of storytellers that benefitted from the stories and legacies subforum and whether the game is 15 years old or not it deserves to live on. Changes to the formatting of threads and replies. I’ve noticed it is already hiding multiple replies under a “show more” filter which limits conversation. Also nesting replies is confusing, the original board style was much easier to navigate and chat on, which is what these forums are all about. As already highlighted, changing the automatic filtering by likes to newest would make it feel more relevant and conversational as a quick fix in the mean time. I personally miss being able to bookmark threads, especially since the sims 3 forums have lost our sub forums and all the migrated ones are in the franchise discussion (please rectify this!). I can’t navigate to what I want to read and am losing track of what I’ve chatted on unless I get notified. Could we also have a list of the rankings just out of interest? I have no idea what a traveler is but apparently I am one 😂 As always, super grateful to the team for taking feedback on board and looking forward to improvements and developments as they come! Happy Simming! Lizzie
Access denied to a thread I was on less than 24 hours ago
Anyone ever encountered this message? I was just on this discussion thread a matter of hours ago and now I’m denied access. Is this a glitch or is EA literally trying to silence dissent? I posted to the thread but said nothing that might violate any standards, so it’s pretty weird that I suddenly can’t access it. On a related note, there was thread criticizing game lag and contesting EA assertions that it was all due to user-side internet connection that was unceremoniously closed down by the moderator over the weekend and so it certainly appears as though EA isn’t beneath trying to silence critics (even after it created these forums as the place for users to air their questions, concerns and criticisms). EA, if you’re listening, it’s not a good look when you not only don’t respond (with action) to fait critiques, but actively quash opinions that you don’t like.
