Hello.
This is by design. 🙂
So I've noticed when loading into and playing The Sims 4, the free earbuds social prompts have been a part of the loading tips/hints for quite some time.
I noticed this shortly after the patch that introduced the free earbuds. (I want to say roughly around the time of the Island Living patch for base game)
Specifically "I do not want free earbuds" and "OK" have been part of the many loading prompts for far too long, and this seems to be one of the few places where it may actually get addressed by the gurus (fingers crossed)
Honestly, it has been around for so long and such an inconvenience that someone attempted to make a mod to get rid of those prompts (outdated right now, I think)
This should really say something.
Let's hope the Gurus finally get around to fixing this instead of developing more DLC
@EmoKawaiiChibi , I'm afraid I don't quite understand... you want the loading messages regarding the earbuds to be taken out? 🤔 I would rather them fix an actual bug that affected actual gameplay than remove something that is harmless, and even funny to some people that doesn't affect gameplay at all. I don't see how this is an inconvenience . And since it isn't a bug, then there is nothing to "fix" really. It is working as intended. While several EA employees do read these pages, I've never seen a Sim Guru here (though I could be wrong). At best maybe an employee for EA can pass the message along, but again since there really is nothing broken, it wouldn't be a high priority. (edited becasue I just ran into a thread where a Sim Guru posted on! 🤭😃 )
The messages about the earbuds remind me of the loading messages and phone messages that the Sims 1 used to have. 😄
Happy Simming! 🥳
@PugLove888 I've been personally logging every bug, glitch, and game-crashing event that I encounter each time I play (and reached roughly 90-100 issues so far). The earbuds prompt on loading is in fact one of those many issues, as it only occurred in the patches AFTER earbuds were introduced, not WHEN they were introduced.
It is annoying to see phone prompts on loading "like in Sims 1" when we are talking about Sims 4. The FOURTH installment of the franchise that is SUPPOSED to be an IMROVEMENT of the previous three. 😠
The fact that the prompt was put onto the loading screen after initial introduction, is the only phone message prompt put onto the loading screen, and a mod was created to get rid of it- all point to the fact that it IS a problem. 😮
It is one of the MANY problems with TS4 (again, logged 90-100 with a base console version and all have repeated on PC in the past, meaning that it isn't just a one-time goof or device-specific, and that ALL have been ignored) 😬
As for the Gurus, those ARE employees, specifically tasked with working on some aspect of The Sims franchise. Maxis works under EA after all.
So I again hope this gets the attention of the Gurus, because I will gladly share my error log 😞
