Can We Discuss The Headaches Caused By This Game? Poll
There have been several people here who early on stated things like this game gave them headaches. I was one of those people. I tried this game the first 24 hours and found the game to cause me some minor headaches. This was back in Sept.
I bought the game a few days after they patched in pools and ghosts. On good faith other content and gameplay interactions would be patched into the game, maybe, hopefully.
I played this game to get a feel of what is I did like and I didn't. I gave it a real long look. From the time of the Pool Patch until early Nov. I did everything it had to offer, from building a sharing on the Gallery to Creating Sims, sharing, and playing several households in one save to new games with other Sims and many times over rotation play.
During this time I can tell you I had nothing but cluster headaches, even when stopping play days later I would continue to have these headaches. They were so bad, yes, this is all true, to touch my head hurt and actually felt like parts of my head were swollen.
Why didn't I go to the doctor? Because I am aware I suffer with migranes and cluster headaches. These happen on one side of the head. Unlike sinus pressure which can be all over. I have med. for sinus and cluster headaches. But these headaches were more severe. I know some in PM know I said I couldn't get my headaches to stop.
For a long time I didn't relate these severe headaches with the game, but with the bright, white assault of the loading screens between lots to my eyes. Because of eye strain, I thought.
I don't play RPGs that allow you to rotate the camera really fast in a 360 angle in order to survive something like another character blasting you out of the water. Those can make me dizzy, so though I used to enjoy fight games when I was younger, I don't try them anymore.
However, The Sims shouldn't be giving so many these headaches. I blamed it on the bright white light of the load as it starts up, and the white light between lots, and the overly bright outdoors compared to the indoors.
Others have said it had to be the UI, maybe I don't know but I want to know how many here have had any headaches (for real) when playing this game?
I know a few of us reported this over in the bug section, but it seems no one is taking this seriously.
Poll: Yes, or No to any headaches while playing and long after playing?
@Anavastia I went ahead to make this thread since I see you mentioned in yours you have very bad headaches/migranes now with this game, and I want this to be taken seriously since you, me and a few others who posted in the tech threads expressed these horrible headaches after playing the game. (I mean after turning it off, the headache doesn't go away)
ETA: I am photosensitive, not to the point of epilepsy but suffer eye pain, and severe headaches sometimes depending on what triggers these headaches. My skin is also photo sensitive, so I am aware most of the time what has triggered a severe headache which may last for weeks on end up to months. It's no fun wearing long sleeves either, most of the time, but you do what you gotta do to avoid pain.
I bought the game a few days after they patched in pools and ghosts. On good faith other content and gameplay interactions would be patched into the game, maybe, hopefully.
I played this game to get a feel of what is I did like and I didn't. I gave it a real long look. From the time of the Pool Patch until early Nov. I did everything it had to offer, from building a sharing on the Gallery to Creating Sims, sharing, and playing several households in one save to new games with other Sims and many times over rotation play.
During this time I can tell you I had nothing but cluster headaches, even when stopping play days later I would continue to have these headaches. They were so bad, yes, this is all true, to touch my head hurt and actually felt like parts of my head were swollen.
Why didn't I go to the doctor? Because I am aware I suffer with migranes and cluster headaches. These happen on one side of the head. Unlike sinus pressure which can be all over. I have med. for sinus and cluster headaches. But these headaches were more severe. I know some in PM know I said I couldn't get my headaches to stop.
For a long time I didn't relate these severe headaches with the game, but with the bright, white assault of the loading screens between lots to my eyes. Because of eye strain, I thought.
I don't play RPGs that allow you to rotate the camera really fast in a 360 angle in order to survive something like another character blasting you out of the water. Those can make me dizzy, so though I used to enjoy fight games when I was younger, I don't try them anymore.
However, The Sims shouldn't be giving so many these headaches. I blamed it on the bright white light of the load as it starts up, and the white light between lots, and the overly bright outdoors compared to the indoors.
Others have said it had to be the UI, maybe I don't know but I want to know how many here have had any headaches (for real) when playing this game?
I know a few of us reported this over in the bug section, but it seems no one is taking this seriously.
Poll: Yes, or No to any headaches while playing and long after playing?
@Anavastia I went ahead to make this thread since I see you mentioned in yours you have very bad headaches/migranes now with this game, and I want this to be taken seriously since you, me and a few others who posted in the tech threads expressed these horrible headaches after playing the game. (I mean after turning it off, the headache doesn't go away)
ETA: I am photosensitive, not to the point of epilepsy but suffer eye pain, and severe headaches sometimes depending on what triggers these headaches. My skin is also photo sensitive, so I am aware most of the time what has triggered a severe headache which may last for weeks on end up to months. It's no fun wearing long sleeves either, most of the time, but you do what you gotta do to avoid pain.
