How to turn off time-limited events

@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. 

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?

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 

😞

@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.  

@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.

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. 

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

@nickinbigd 

None of the events have contained promotions for paid content.

@Yuke2001 

The icons are there so you can participate if you so want. If they annoy you turn the game offline and delete accountDataDB.package. You will also lose access to the online gallery.

For me anyway, it’s not about “having to do them” but it’s the pop-ups and icons that clutter the screen when the whole point (for me) is to create and structure my own world. It’s a nuisance. The only reason EA doesn’t give us a toggle to remove these “challenges” (the same way we can alter aging or remove storms) is because they were both blatant attempts to market new paid content. That’s the salt rubbed in the wound.