I would LOVE if the Sims 4 team would get rid of all the autonomous cell phone fiddling in game. It's an unnecessary detail. It's fine if you instruct a sim to use the phone to call someone or using it for something else. However all the cell phones, clay blobs and future cubes don't enhance game play at all. Ok thanks
I think it is there in an attempt to normalize cell phone addiction, because, I would guess, the same people who make this game probably spend a lot of time on their phones (techno-philes) and want to present it as something that is funny/normal, rather than gross and disturbing. Unfortunately, they have decided for us that we all are going to have sims that are cell phone addicts and we have no say in this. IMO, this is sad and troubling, to be sure.
Not to mention the disconnect between how long an action should actually take a Sim and how long the animation actually takes is just made 10 times worse by pausing that animation constantly so they can play with their phone. I wouldn’t mind so much if it was an actual IDLE animation, but they keep using it when they really should be in a hurry, or at least purposeful.
Agreed. If the game gave an option to use "real time" then the cellphone addiction would be less awful since the sims wouldn't be on their phone for a virtual half an hour in just a few seconds. Their lives are already lived at about 50 times reality, so wasting time on their phone is like fifty times worse. On top of that, the cell phone use doesn't do anything other than waste time. Maybe if it counted towards some kind of skill or knowledge it could be forgiven, but as it is, this is just an effort to pad a basically empty game with something only a cell phone addict would think funny.
