Feedback: Shopping Cart Icon
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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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.
