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Seasoned Newcomer

2 years ago

Feedback: Shopping Cart Icon and main menu ads

Product: The Sims 4 Platform: PC Which language are you playing the game in? German How often does the bug occur? 100% What is your current game version number? 1.105.297.103 What expansion...

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EA_Cade

The Sims Team

2 years ago

Hey 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!

LadyAofPineapple

Seasoned Ace

2 years ago

@EA_Cade I posted somewhere on X/Twitter that the gallery is a MUCH more organic way to sell packs, at least the way the gallery used to be. I feel that the in-game button needs to go, and these efforts focused on the gallery (for perhaps individuals/teams not involved with game play content and fixes). Following creators and seeing activity in my newsfeed actually did convince me to buy packs such as Journey to Batuu (I am not a SW fan) because I saw BB items being used in such creative ways. And I know when and where to buy packs, and am alerted to sales, all without the need to intrude upon game immersion. Honestly, the way packs are advertised already is overkill for any fan of the Sims franchise.

All in all, if this truly was a test, I'd say it was a failure, and maybe next time, EA could get feedback from actual simmers before implementing such a controversial thing.

Thank you for communicating with us and also for speaking up for us.

PandoraTO
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@LadyAofPineapple, wow I never thought about that before, but you’re totally right about the gallery. Back when it was fun to use (i.e., before the migration), I was on the gallery a lot and it did inspire me to buy certain packs. But they botched the migration and then basically abandoned it. (For all we know. They won’t tell us anything about it anymore. I even posted here to ask about it within the last week. Crickets.) I hardly use it now.

On the other hand, I will never touch a shopping cart button. Whenever it actually seems safe to patch, I’ll also update BBB and get rid of the cart. But I shouldn’t have to, and not everyone has that option.
- LadyAofPineapple
  Seasoned Ace
  2 years ago
  @PandoraTO I feel and plan to do the same. I just don't understand the decision to implement something so obvious (and unasked for) when a lot of us have been asking for the gallery to return to its rightful state, lol.
  
  When it's this obvious to consumers that they are being targeted, it's just bad form, lol.