The amount of phone use by Sims, especially as they just walk along or during a conversation (which is frankly just rude) is a constant annoyance.
My Sims take every opportunity to use a phone as soon as they get a spare moment. It is causing problems with getting them to do tasks and ruining fun animated moments because of the having to pause and send a text. Why?!
I disagree that mobile phone use makes the game more 'realistic'. My definition of how real a game or story feels is to do with how one would expect the characters/Sims to act within the setting of their universe.
It does not feel like a realistically existing world when my werewolf on a feral rampage suddenly regains enough self control to handle a mobile device and send a text! (Although this was quite amusing to watch)
It does not feel like a realistically existing world when my merman, who lives alone on a remote island and has grown up in a more or less technology-less environment (and also doesn't like socialising much), keeps getting his phone out to send texts and check social media. (This is not amusing, this is just an annoying interruption).
I agree with @SilentKitty in that I like to play the game to have little adventures with my characters and do lots of fun things. The obsessive phone use by Sims is spoiling this. And even if it is supposed to make the game seem more like 'the real world', is this the sort of real world EA really wants to promote? People not being able to function without checking their phone every few seconds? People interrupting quality time with a friend or family member to look at their phones instead? This is 'real life'?!
