Cozy Celebrations Rewards Event: December 3-January 10

I can't understand what you mean by forced gameplay to be honest. You have an option, a choice not to play for the rewards, I believe with Reapers Rewards there was an option to end the event early. I think you have to see the bigger picture that Simmers like my granddaughter who can't afford a lot of the packs, only what I buy her, this enables her to get some extra stuff in her game. Please do not pressurize the Sims team to not do these events.

My sentiments exactly, there are way too many negative players, I for one am grateful for any extra gameplay that is made available to me, and the freebies of course.

Cool!

alr tysm for the reply as always.. tho im less aggravated this time,  just kinda stunned that this might be going to be a thing. Ima stay positive and hope and wish that they can find a way to make it optional 🤞

Le_Slacker the reward events are going to be a thing.

There will be updates in the future that bring additional layers to what you can see and do. The team is working on adding gameplay to Events, perhaps a quest or two to explore, and even more rewards to claim.

The team will be developing Events with objects and gameplay connected to The Sims’ Season. Events can also be timed to a variety of different occasions in a calendar year or a general theme that we look forward to sharing with you in the future.

https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/the-sims-4-events

It's "forced" because we can't BUY the objects. Let's be real: everyone WANTS more content, we WANT the OBJECTS - but the gameplay is not good. Come on. You want to skip some boring and stressfully buggy game and FOREVER miss out on those objects and feel that FOMO FOREVER? No. No one wants to just skip it. We want a good game!!

Even when it works it's very disappointing "gameplay." When this was announced, I pictured Grim coming over or calling my Sim and saying he needs help - but nope!!  I do suffer from being pretty literal as I am autistic, so that got my hopes up. That also means I was more disappointed in the shallow fakery of "Grim's" quests than I could have been. I also thought the whole process would make sense, overall - nope. They really shoved the aspects together. ☹️

Though subtle, the event was hyped up, but actually quite lackluster. Even the unlocking of rewards was messed up by their poor planning (timing/points spacing) - I was underwhelmed and left a bit confused. I should have felt some excitement, but nope.

I could tell (I think it's obvious?) that Reaper's Rewards was VERY rushed. And here comes a second event of this type after very little time to fix bugs, let alone plan it all better.

And don't even get me started on how seasonal gardening massively derailed my questing!!! (Why should I build a greenhouse just for some stupid quest?!) ALSO! I didn't like learning the hard way that taking cuttings can kill plants! (I thought more cutting might help my sim out, and IRL it's harmless!) I DID NOT WANT THIS GAMEPLAY!!

This is something that I don't want, that a lot of people don't want. This is making the game worse, not better, for a bunch of players. All they have to do it make it optional. That's all we're asking for.

No, it isn't optional. At least Reapers wasn't. The wretched menu popped up, blocked a corner of the screen and all but screamed for attention. It wouldn't stay minimized. It couldn't be made to go away. If there was an option to "end it early" I never saw it. 

All I'm asking for, all a lot of people are asking for, is a real option to click on and say "I don't want to play this" and have it go away, and stay away, rather than staying the screen. 

People who want to play these rewards should be able to play them.

If they are something you enjoy and that adds to your gameplay experience it's a good thing... for you. For me, it takes away from my gameplay experience. For me, just having that menu there makes the game worse. All I want is the option. For people who like it, they should be able to have it. For people - like me - who don't, we should be able to opt out.

The great thing about the Sims is that there is no right way to play.

All I'm asking for is the choice to play my way.

Yeah it will be interesting to see how they do this mainly with base game.