How to turn off time-limited events

@nickinbigd 

None of the events have contained promotions for paid content.

Not resolved yet, no surprise. Stopped playing because of this design flaw with Reaper's whatever. Now, some holiday event has reared it's ugly head, uninvited, buggy and unwanted.

EA, you are missing the point here. Players want the ability to disable these events and NOT see the annoying interface clogging up screen. Essentially, there is no "opt out" option. Going offline is not a solution, it is a workaround. And in so doing, players would lose online functionality. So, Bravo!

$$$ I won't be purchasing Sims5

My apologies for the miscommunication. I'm just overwhelmed and stressed by these 'in your face' events that apparently don't even work properly. Also, just like most players here, I also need to be able to access the gallery, so going offline doesn't help matters and causes 'reduced functionality'. Honestly, enjoying The Sims 4 in peace isn't really a thing anymore. 

@jpkarlsen That is NOT a solution. It really doesn't help matters at all and players should have a choice whether they want the icons in-game or not. It would make a lot of sense if it was a check box, maybe something like 'Participate in Reward Events' that players could toggle if they didn't want the icons in their game UI. EA is being straight-up unfair to thousands of players and it's most likely gonna get worse in the future.

@jpkarlsen So your solution to them having something you don't want in game, is to turn off processes in the game? What? Get out of here bootlicker.  

My heart is broken, I love the sims

I haven't played since the stupid reaper thing was up. 

Decided to try again today and this cozy

F£%king game is on it now

Makes me want my money back

I will never play the sims if I can't get rid of it

So pathetic 

😞

I'm not an 8 year old!

This is aimed at children

Give us our game back!!!

So p&@@ed off.

How can we spend all this money on it and not have a say?

@jpkarlsenYou can’t do this if you’re on Xbox 🙂 

But the real question is why should we have to? EA gives us the ability to change weather, aging, delete holidays, etc but we can’t opt out of these manufactured events?  Why? Marketing, that’s why. 

@jpkarlsen I didn’t say they contained paid content, they were tie-ins with the rollouts of new paid content.   Grim Reaper was an obvious tie-in to promote the rollout of the Life & Death pack, and the Cozy challenge… umm did you notice the new Cozy Bundle?  EA spends more time trying to persuade users to pay more money for this stuff than they do fixing all the problems they create. 

@nickinbigd 

I personally wouldn't mind a toggle to turn off the events entirely for the few that want that but the more free things I can get the better and at the same time have a little fun while doing the tasks. Regarding the Cozy event you seem to have forgotten what time of year it is. It coincides much more with that than a bundle in my opinion but you are of course welcome to have your own opinion. If you want to talk promotions the new purchase button in game fits much better than the events.