@LadyAofPineapple, I haven't seen any official news about it, but many people on The Sims Forum have reported that the shopping cart showed up in their games out of the blue yesterday. Theories are that either it came with an EA app update that occurred yesterday or it was already hiding in the previous patch and it just became activated in their games yesterday.
It would be interesting to know if the shopping cart also showed up yesterday for Origin players who didn't have it until that point. I'm using Origin, but I can't say what's happening in my own game one way or the other. I was avoiding the patch until I was forced to update last week by the Origin outage, and I immediately updated my mods as well, one of which disables the shopping cart. So, I don't know whether the cart was in my game last week already.
Personally, I dislike the notion of a "poison pill" having been hidden in the previous patch, to be triggered at a later date. I sincerely hope that isn't how it happened. On the other hand, I don't see how something could be added to the game itself via an EA app update.
They really should tell us in one of their official channels how they managed to insert the cart into people's games without a game update.
@PandoraTO I’m on Origin and just had the cart show up. The little flashing light is extremely distracting.
@PipMenace wrote:@PandoraTO I’m on Origin and just had the cart show up. The little flashing light is extremely distracting.
Well, that's disturbing.
I don't even install an SDX drop without finding out first what it is. Now, this situation makes me think maybe patch notes can no longer be trusted. If they included something hidden in a patch this time without telling us, who's to say they won't do it again? They need to either confirm that's what they did, or if it's not, explain to us what happened here.
@PandoraTOI guess I just assumed the code for the button was added to all games with the 2/27 update that did include it in the patch notes, but that some of us were lucky enough to have extra code to still have it hidden temporarily in a timed roll-out for testing purposes. So when it did show up, I thought that timer on the hide-the-cart had now expired. I didn't notice any updates or SDX drops between the last time I opened the game without the cart and the first time it showed up, though I suppose I can't be 100% sure there wasn't one in the background that I missed.
So. They don't even bother answering now.
Hey! Is anyone from EA listening?
