"SilentKitty;c-18209087" wrote:
Hmm....
Phones jolt me out of any kind of historical saves, or when you take all your carefully hoarded Dragon Age Inquisition CC on your sim and strand them all on the Island in Windenburg only to see all of them happily texting away.
For me it feels like a constant reminder that my way of playing the sims is wrong. I liked to make a silly challenge for myself and see how it plays out. I made a survival sim that was stranded on a strange planet and had to survive and build and gather resources before accessing new tech and getting more people. Standard civilization-style. Now my stranded sim would text and chat and it would not jive with the story. Because that is not what the developers had in mind with the sims. It is now, today, current time now that I am supposed to play. Whatever I had imagined is not the way to go.
I am not trying to make myself in the sims. I am trying different times, lives, histories, worlds. It is more difficult now unfortunately.
Yes! Exactly this!
Why railroad the players into modern tech at all times, with no opt out, when the game could offer so much more if it were flexible? It even contradicts its own features. Why make Eco Lifestyle or Off the Grid lot traits or Occults at all if you're just going to ruin everything with forced modern tech? I dread checking Batuu and Strangerville to see what those places look like now.
Once I'm forced to update in a couple of days when I switch to the EA app, I'm not sure if I'll play much anymore unless I can find some really reliable mods that shut that nonsense down. Otherwise it really just isn't fun for me.
