I would like an option in game settings to hide the cart button. It is completely unnecessary to have it showing all of the time while playing the game.
edited title for visibility after merging threads. -puzzlezaddict
Yep, Cart button is nothing but an intrusion and needs an option to be disabled. If you already own everything or just dont' want to be constantly reminded that you don't own everything, it's completely unnecessary. Stop it.
Yes please do something about this. People who are neurodivergent like myself are incredibly bothered by this sort of sensory thing. It literally makes the game unplayable.
My original post was consolidated with a thread that was unrelated to my issue, and has now been marked as resolved, while my issue remains. There is also a new thread here in feedback suggesting that an option be implemented to turn the button on and off. Seeing as neither of these encompass my issue, I am making a new thread to make myself abundantly clear —
Remove the Shopping Cart icon entirely.
You can keep putting on your blinders and telling yourself this is going to blow over, or you can start making the necessary changes. This change is not going to benefit you. It's hurting your reputation with the community, and I can tell you now that this button isn't going to entice people to buy. You're practically spitting in peoples faces now by making the button more intrusive since the patch.
We're forced through 3 different stages of ads every time we boot up this game (the EA app splash page, the pop-up that advertises old packs, the main menu itself) and you feel the need to add another layer to it? To make it ever present during gameplay? We paid for this product - some people paid over 1000 dollars - and yet we're not allowed to enjoy it without being hit in the face with more adverts? You're cheapening your product and destroying what little goodwill you had with the community.
First of all, thank you for creating this post! I was thinking about doing the same but I have no idea how. I agree with everything said on your post and I think the Shopping cart doesn’t belong anywhere within the interface of the game itself. The Menu is already invasive enough. As a parent, I’m aware of the curiosity of my daughters when playing games and they have already been taught to ignore ads on main menus, launchers and emails in general, but to have to deal with that inside the interface of the game itself is too much. This is a PAID game, not some live service, online only game that requires constant internet connection and is free to play.
This is akin to buying a Coca-Cola to enjoy at the end of the day and having the polar bear sitting right next to you holding the billboard.
It’s insulting, invasive, predatory and, as a customer and a father, I say it’s disgusting. It’s clearly targeting more vulnerable members of the community by preying on their anxieties and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).
I always screen the games my daughters play for this exact kind of sickening strategy and I refuse to accept it on a product I’ve paid for thirty times over. I’m sorry for the long post and I leave with words of gratitude to the members of the community that have shared their distaste for this action across multiple platforms.
I hate the shopping cart in the game. I already own all the packs, kits, etc. The shopping cart makes me almost irrationally angry, pulsating or not. It's like EA is saying that it's not enough that I've spent a ridiculous amount of time and money on this game, it's still not enough for them. It feels greedy and cash-grabby. I'm not buying the new gem pack or even opening my game until the shopping cart is removed.
@Coraychi wrote:My original post was consolidated with a thread that was unrelated to my issue, and has now been marked as resolved, while my issue remains. There is also a new thread here in feedback suggesting that an option be implemented to turn the button on and off. Seeing as neither of these encompass my issue, I am making a new thread to make myself abundantly clear —
Remove the Shopping Cart icon entirely.
You can keep putting on your blinders and telling yourself this is going to blow over, or you can start making the necessary changes. This change is not going to benefit you. It's hurting your reputation with the community, and I can tell you now that this button isn't going to entice people to buy. You're practically spitting in peoples faces now by making the button more intrusive since the patch.
We're forced through 3 different stages of ads every time we boot up this game (the EA app splash page, the pop-up that advertises old packs, the main menu itself) and you feel the need to add another layer to it? To make it ever present during gameplay? We paid for this product - some people paid over 1000 dollars - and yet we're not allowed to enjoy it without being hit in the face with more adverts? You're cheapening your product and destroying what little goodwill you had with the community.
I still can't believe this again got merged with a post that has a different take on a solution to this mess.
We don't want to just hide it, we want it ROLLED BACK PLEASE!
Ok well that's weird. When I last posted, the title said "hide" now it says "remove"
Now that's an idea I can get around. Thank you!
Yes! I don't want the shopping cart in my game while I'm playing. I'm already being advertised on the main page and the loading screen. I paid for this game and all the content. This is too much! Please give us the choice to remove this button altogether, or do the compassionate thing and remove it yourself.
I merged two threads together so that all feedback about the new cart button would be in one place. Please continue to use this thread for any related feedback.
it's so annoying.
The Sims TeamHey all,
Small update: I've moved this thread from the Bug Reports section now that the Epatch is confirmed to have resolved the aspects of the shopping cart we considered bugged.
This thread is now in the Feedback section to aide me in gathering and reporting on all of the conversations taking place here for the wider team, I've also unmarked it as "resolved" to more clearly represent that we're still monitoring this.
Please keep your feedback coming in the thread, it's all being recorded and reported up the chain.
Thanks!
