Hi, Sims Team!
I understand that you’re not allowed to make promises on the forums until the code is certain to drop. But I think it would help a lot if you followed up to say that you’ve seen the thread, you’re sorry to hear the new controls have had this effect, and that it’s being discussed internally.
(Also, while this doesn’t affect me personally, as a PC player whose main issue is bad eyesight, I winced at the description of someone’s hands cramping into claws. OWWWWW!!!!!!)
Please consider updating the controls, or adding more accessibility features so they’re not as difficult for our differently-abled console players to use.
I've mentioned this on the console controls feedback thread but persevering with build mode is becoming more difficult and I'm having to limit the rest of my screen time for the rest of the day. About 10 or 20 minutes of it is sometimes enough to set off vertigo. Building has never done this. The camera suddenly bouncing over platforms and decking, BB menu blocking the view and making it necessary to occasionally view the building process looking down on it added to the flickering of the broken undo/redo function are the cause. My eyes are so irritated from it I use saline drops regularly throughout building. Even short stints.
The broken controls thread was recently marked as "Solved" so imagine my frustration that no solution has been presented yet. It's finally reached the gaming media which is great in one way, but sad in another because I'm proud of our inclusive game.. or at least I was until it stopped including me.
You might think I should just wait till it's fixed, like others but I've spent so much money on it and it's my main hobby. I try to take it so carefully but it's still horrible. I've found a trick to get the old scrolling method to work and that helps a lot so I kept going and tried to balance out building time. I've had kind offers of pre made solutions from PC players but gallery builds cause error codes unfortunately, I can only add my builds and not download.
As a former equal opportunities officer I've said this before but I just don't understand how disabled customers have not been seen. I didn't think that was legal. It's not in the UK, that I do know. In my old government career I had to make accessibility a priority. I felt bitter as a console customer but I feel even more bitter as a disabled player. But I'm one of the more fortunate, my disabilities are just painful and affect dexterity, grip and occasionally balance too. I've spoken to people with much worse conditions who have had to stop playing their expensive game. I'm not asking for anything special for my disability. All I asked for was a quick sell function in the household inventory and quicker scrolling/outfit choices in CAS (which was ignored) and I was the first to answer the controller feedback request last year. CAS is another problem as every category is sticking more now and I have to keep pressing Back and reselecting categories that are stuck. Now all any of us are asking for is our original controls back. Nothing special, nothing huge.
EA/Maxis do better please. I love this product and have done since Sims 1 but I don't feel the love back right now.
Edit: Another new repetitive clicking issue is caused by the menu constantly changing itself. For example choose a plant from Indoor Plants thats also a wall plant and it switches to Wall Decorations, choose a wall plant from Wall Decorations and it switches to Indoor Plants. Choose by room and it switches to item aisles/sorts, and so on. I constantly have to switch back to the category I was using. It adds so much extra clicking and scrolling.
@xochiquetzl_xkvn thanks so much for supporting this thread, this is why we have such a great community here.
