I play most of my games on Steam.
The Sims 4 is the only game that I actively play through the EA app. I see no reason yet to open the app, update the game, use a mod to eliminate a potential shopping cart and buy the latest pack. Believe me, I want to, but the patch has been out for less than a week and the cart button backlash has already been phenomenal for very good reasons.
EA is well aware that we’re not leaving “BUG” reports. We’re sharing genuine concerns about why that button should not be visible in game mode. Not just for select players, but for potentially everyone.
We don’t need ads in something that we’ve already paid for. That’s why we paid. You are hurting your most passionate customers, the long term simmers. The Sims means everything to many of these customers. People paid for The Sims 4 because they WANT to play it in order to cope with stress, EA you should have done your research and understand this by now. By implementing a ( absolutely useless) shopping cart you’re reversing the positive effect the game has on players. You’re doing the exact opposite, as so so many have already suggested.
You’re dealing with (mostly) adult humans, EA, you’re not dealing with robots or automated cash dispensers. That’s not what we are. Sure, over half of us is neurodivergent, but that doesn’t make us less human. Treat your customers like human beings, and not like small babies either.
When you announced this potentially new feature, you addressed us like we just finished the infant stage. That took the biscuit altogether, and a dry, tasteless crumbly one at that. We’re not toddlers. Just because we act like them sometimes, that doesn’t mean we ARE. Know the difference.
EA, If that button is so important, I expect a studio representative to address the community directly and explain to us the reasons why it would be good to implement the shopping cart button in gameplay mode. Pitch it to us, the paying customers.
Tell us why the reasons of having it there are FAR BETTER than the reasons people have for NOT wanting it there. Tell us how it will truly benefit the player. No toddler talk. Adult talk.
We’re listening.
If you cannot do that for the community, simply get rid of it.
