Re: Feedback: Shopping Cart Icon and main menu ads

At least make the icon static, it pulses continuously until you click on it, and every time you change households or reload the game, you are forced to click on it to stop the pulsing.

EDIT: Okay, the pulsing, I read, you took it off, but you still added that bright golden dot, which is already very annoying on the calendar and social bunny. Personally, if the corporate executives really demand that button at all costs, it must be made static and without bright dots. That being said, it would be much better if it wasn't there at all, because The Sims 4 didn't start out as an f2p online multiplayer game, only in the last year you've decided to make it free to download.

@GiardiniDiMarzo  There's a new bug report for the pulsing:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Pulsating-Shopping-Button/m-p/13519671#M271413

In fact, maybe you can create your own in case the OP doesn't come back to fill out the template.

Edit:  Never mind, the report has 12 Me Toos already.

How do I turn off the new cart button?

I was planning on updating this game for the bug fixes until I checked the support forums. Who thought that this was a good idea?

Simmers do not need the PC/console equivalent of an in-game store for in-app purchases in Live Mode.

Just chiming in to say this is a real scummy move...and completely unnecessary! We already, upon login, have to see all the stuff on sale! What was wrong with that? No one wants to stop playing in the middle of their game to buy a pack. And if they did, for some reason, they could just save and go to the main menu to do it! Why add this in live mode? Man hours were spent making a new intrusive cash grab instead of fixing years' old bugs, or making wedding stories functional, or rent actually be paid, landlord events functional, making dine-out a functioning pack (they'll leave that to Carl's Guides/Mods I guess) etc. God forbid bugs get fixed, when the execs can crack the whip and make the devs create a cash-grab button no one wants or likes, and will actively mobilize even the staunchest fans to stop playing... and paying.

Yeah, my entire reaction to this can be summed up as "kill it with fire". It's annoying, intrusive, blatantly greedy, and an active health risk.

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.105.297.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? A bunch
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get rid of the feature
What happens when the bug occurs? It sucks every last ounce of joy out of my soul
What do you expect to see? Not money grabbing slimy marketing tactics IN GAME
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. It's literally an added feature to the update

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• This new feature is truly an atrocity. It's incredibly inconsiderate to people with mental and physical health conditions. It's also insane to put in the gameplay portion of the Sims. The game literally opens to ads for packs. It doesn't need to also be ever present when playing. That's such a terrible way to treat people who put hundreds to thousands of dollars into a game they love, not a cheap money grab mobile game... It's a huge deterrent and I feel less inclined to buy any new packs or spend as much time in game. 

Agree. 

We don't want or need that. 

Just remove it. 

Send the pulsating shopping cart back where it came from!

As Javik would say, throw it out the airlock

+1 Remove this nonsense.

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We're in the Malware SIMPOCALYPSE, and internet searching that will actually give you my Reddit OP, hot dayum! Prioritize FIRST-PARTY sources especially for your script mods and install and update TwistedMexi's ModGuard.

Absolutely agree, no one wants it. All it's going to do is decrease monetary gain from TS4, not increase it. 

There's a reason people install adblockers onto everything and why certain sentiments are garnered towards certain types of media, all because people don't like crap being shoved down their throats. 

This button is so awful. There is no way I go near this game while it exists

You've outdone yourselves. Clearly shown you don't care about the players experience, or their comfort during gameplay, and only sees them as piggybanks. The last pack released in a completely broken state, but sure, let's push it even more in the most obnoxious way possible. 

I shouldn't have obnoxious ads in a game I spent hundreds on. Get rid of it and fully, not just the pulsating. 

+1 The button needs to go. It's insufferable and a constant insult to players.

Agreed. This feature also broke my mod-free game. Couldn’t even program it correctly.

This new (and very much useless and violently annoying) feature is making TS4 look so cheap, as if it's a pay2win mobile game.

Kill the pulsating shopping cart with fire, we already see the packs and their sales on the main menu. This update really kills my motivation to play the game.

This new „feature“ of a always pulsating button is nothing but full front disrespect for neurodivergent people and EA knows exactly that there a huge amount of neurodivergent people playing the sims. I was super excited for the crystal pack but I won’t be getting any new packs until this button is removed, ever. 

I was thinking about purchasing For Rent, until this obnoxious update changed my mind.  Not buying until it’s gone.

Congratulations EA! You finally broke me. I have been a simmer since the beginning- Im talking sim city days, even before the sims 1. I have bought and played all of the games since. This includes EVERY pack. But this finally broke me 🙂 I uninstalled the sims 4 tonight! 

thank you for finally showing me just how much you just truly do not care about your fanbase. <3 

see ya later, sims. It is was a great 20+ years.