Just chiming in to say this is a real scummy move...and completely unnecessary! We already, upon login, have to see all the stuff on sale! What was wrong with that? No one wants to stop playing in the middle of their game to buy a pack. And if they did, for some reason, they could just save and go to the main menu to do it! Why add this in live mode? Man hours were spent making a new intrusive cash grab instead of fixing years' old bugs, or making wedding stories functional, or rent actually be paid, landlord events functional, making dine-out a functioning pack (they'll leave that to Carl's Guides/Mods I guess) etc. God forbid bugs get fixed, when the execs can crack the whip and make the devs create a cash-grab button no one wants or likes, and will actively mobilize even the staunchest fans to stop playing... and paying.
The shopping cart icon seems to have had the wrong effect on me. It was supposed to entice me into clicking the rude and sensory-unfriendly interruption to my SOLO gameplay, in a game I already OWN, and spend more of my hard-earned money on Sims packs, sucking me further into EA's pockets.
But instead, I seem to have uninstalled the game! Oops! 🙂
