"Who asked for more phone use?"
Probably people who are addicted to phones and thought its something the game would need. Im just missing things like tiktok challenges to complete the list of bad influences that the game just doesnt need.
"well in reality, adults of all ages, even elders, can be addicted to their phones"
Unfortunately it entered the game without involving traits or even player interaction. Even phones are default equipment for every sim. Because it was intended as a menu. Now its a social app with game menu features that should never be combined like this. These things MUST be seperated an enabled by the player. I dont want the social nonsense in the phone. It should be seperate like dust bunnies and neighborhood voting and there is no way its going to change now.
Technophobe lifestyle was bugged before the phone changes came last week. I played with an off-the-grid household, all of them technophobes and they started to crave technology. I also made them fitness fanatics and its so bugged that at some point the only way to get them to be playable again because of negative moodlets about craving fitness activities (because working out without tools didnt count) that I had to take them to the city to a gym to work out for a minute to get rid of the moodlets and then take them home, waiting for the bad moodlets to return.
This new phone addiction might not be intentional when there are no traits related to it are present. But still, to add such a feature without proper testing and then letting the entire community look at bugged and ruined themes for over a week is just terrible and incompetent. It shows that previous bugged lifestyles combined with new packs that interact with each other in bugged ways is something that shouldnt happen yet it does on a regular basis. It needs internal testing which apparently didnt happen. Again.
In the end it doesnt matter how reasonable we make our cases. The people in charge of the game and the developers dont listen but pretend to be connected with the community.
