"EA_Cade;c-18356749" wrote:
Please do remember to post in accordance with the forum guidelines. I don't want to have to remove your post full of well thought out points just because you sprinkled in that "EA is a stinky meany face" as well.
I know you're a passionate bunch and this is a topic you feel strongly about, but please help me help you.
"flauschtrud;c-18357216" wrote:
@EA_Cade
Thanks for spreading our feedback!
Something to add from my side:
This game is a safe space for many people and for a variety of reasons. For me personally it's a coping tool to deal with anxiety and lack of control in the real world. Since Sims 1.
Constantly being nagged with ads doesn't feel safe. Realizing you're nothing more than a cash cow doesn't feel safe. Being lied to doesn't feel safe (and I consider the emergency patch a lie since the pulsing button has just been replaced with a flashing light). And let's not forget: buying save corrupting packs doesn't feel safe.
I wish the people in managing positions would realize how very different this community is and what the game means to us. And how much impact their decisions have not only on our fun but on our (mental) health.
I was actually looking forward to buying Crystal Creations (after all it looks like a very good pack). But these patches created so much negativity and anger that I don't feel safe nor welcome anymore.
So, the light turns off after the shopping cart is clicked? The only way to turn off the light is to click it? The light was designed to be so irritating that we will choose to LEAVE our game to turn it off, and while we are outside our game, we become a captive audience that is subjected to an advertisement that is designed to manipulate us into doing something we had previously decided NOT to do. I think a more subtle form of manipulation would be more effective. This just makes us angry. Or worse,
it makes us feel unsafe.
If we want to buy a pack, we purchase it BEFORE we load our game. We do not want to wait through a loading screen TWICE. The only customers that will purchase packs while being subjected to this type of heavy-handed manipulation are the most vulnerable people that deserve to be protected instead of exploited.
A post above says not to call EA a "stinky meany face". Okay, please help us help you. Some of us truly don't know how to describe what is happening to us with the vocabulary that is allowed.
We are allowed to make "I" statements? We are allowed to say that we don't feel safe? Is a roll call allowed?
@flauschtrud doesn't feel safe
@Katofhyrule12 doesn't feel safe
Does anyone else want to go on record as feeling unsafe?
What if this becomes the longest Sims forum thread ever? A thread that lists how many people around the world no longer feel safe. What a way to say Goodbye to this forum!
