Um, no. Just get rid ot the phone addiction behavior all together, not mod it or excuse it or normalize it.
@djriddle1977 , I agree that modding the unwanted phone behavior isn't a good option because people who play on consoles can't use this option!
It's been a year and a half since I posted this, and others have posted similar requests before and since and ea has done NOTHING. it is so obvious they don't care what their customers actually think or want or like. just another ivory tower full of the clueless
@djriddle1977What I have noticed is EA will only act on things like this if an idea or a problem gets enough ratings to show this is in demand or enough people are having the same issues and not just a mod interfering.
Replying again to bump this issue since so many of us are bothered by it. I don’t know who wanted phone addiction in the game to begin with… But honestly it just makes me super sad at this point. Regardless of how addicted some people are IRL, 1) not everyone is ridiculously addicted to their phone, especially elders, 2) especially not while jogging or in the middle of a conversation, and 3) why should we be normalizing it in a game?!
All we want is the option to disable this animation, so we don’t have to get really sad about humanity while playing the Sims. There’s enough reasons for that in the real world - let this game be an escape.
