Feedback: Shopping Cart Icon and main menu ads

i bought every expansion and pack and would prefer to not have a flashing cart button. i would absolutely HATE that. please reconsider making this ugly, crass, annoyance part of your players' experience. it is unwanted. thanks.

With the new developments and the emergency patch, I thought I'd weigh in again.  - If you are curious about my previous comment it's on page 5. Linked here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Pulsating-Shopping-Button/m-p/13520447#M270905

To start, I stopped giving the benefit of the doubt a long time ago with this game. This button is dead on arrival and the audacity to keep it in after all the backlash is just insane to me. If the pulsing is 100% gone in EVERY capacity that's a good start but it's nowhere near enough to resolve the discontent in the community as a whole on this subject.

Remove the button that absolutely no one asked for. I'm a silent observer 99.9% of the time, but this is one egregious miss-step I and many others are not going to just drop because of a hotfix.

It genuinely clutters the UI also adding to the in-game accessibility nightmare; even without the pulsing it's still intrusive and immersion-breaking in gameplay.

It should not be the modders' responsibility to fix the game's missteps, mistakes and bugs. I really feel for console players who don't have the option of mods.

i'd like to add, i was this close to purchasing three extra packs for my daughters, buut instead warned them not to even open their sims 4 games to avoid it causing issues for them. i am keeping my game off, too, until the button is removed. i'm a builder, primarily, and since the shopping cart button obscures building buttons, there is absolutely NO point in me trying to play. i can only guess EA is just trying to destoy their own customer base by insulting and alienating their customers. a company that wanted business wouldn't harrass their customers like this.

To the ones that uses mods.. There's a mod that's already been created to remove the shopping cart. It's by SimMattically and it's free to download.

For me, this partial "fix" is not enough.  Please make the button not "animate" at all. Any flashing or movement at all is too much.  I still cannot update my game (and therefor cannot buy new packs) until this is gone.

I also would like the calendar button to not flash as well, but at least I can prop an index card up against my monitor to cover that because it's at the bottom of the screen and next to buttons I don't use a lot.  The location of this marketing button makes it difficult to cover up (especially because it is next to buttons that I use a lot like "manage households" etc.)

I agree with other posters that it should not even be in the game at all.  We are perfectly aware of what packs exist.  There is marketing for them on the EA app at launch, on the main menu screen, on the Sims 4 news page.  If we haven't bought a pack yet, there is a real world reason for that.  This in-game marketing is completely unnecessary, and is extremely unlikely to cause anyone to buy anything that they weren't already planning to buy.  It is simply going to lose you loyal customers who can't play with that thing flashing.  This is not an acceptable way to market.  It is invasive, immersion breaking, and irritating.  Good marketing gets players excited about the new packs, not causes them distress and irritation.  Please remove it.

EDIT to add: Just in case EA looks at my account and thinks "they've only played for under 100 hours, their opinion doesn't matter", this is not true.  I always play offline. I only go online to download patches or new DLC I bought.  By conservative estimate (yes, I actually did the math) I have put in over 3000 hours of playtime on this game since I bought the base game in 2017.  It just doesn't show because your counter doesn't count offline play hours.  This game matters a lot to me.

This update is so stupid!

I agree with this. I do have epilepsy so I do not want pulsing things on my view and I DO NOT want to have seisure while playing. I do have a medication, but I still do not want to start to test how good it's works. So get rid of it, now please.

By to way, was this the reason why you did put chat and comment offline in your youtube stream yesterday? You just have to deal with the negative critics if you do stupid decisions. We have a saying where I come from; You lay as you make your bed.

Same here. And it pisses me off.