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Cooks1234567890
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2 months ago
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New Retro Phones

Hello! 

I was super excited to learn that house phones were coming back. Once I was able to claim them, I immediately put one in my Sim’s home. To my surprise, they are not functional 😔. Did anyone else know about this? Or did I miss the memo about them just being a decoration?

Now I’m thinking the alarm clock will not work either once I claim it 🤦🏽‍♀️.

  • Yup~ Got mentioned multiple times and in description they wouldn't be functional unfortunately til I saw the notes for it before the event started. Shame really. They're just nice, teasing, decor.

    I have the alarm clock in game and it works fine. Can set it at any time during the day to go off and you can set individual alarm clocks.

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  • I knew that the phones would not be functional because I saw spoilers before the event. The alarm clock, buffet table & cake from the event are functional.

  • Yup~ Got mentioned multiple times and in description they wouldn't be functional unfortunately til I saw the notes for it before the event started. Shame really. They're just nice, teasing, decor.

    I have the alarm clock in game and it works fine. Can set it at any time during the day to go off and you can set individual alarm clocks.

  • Miataplay's avatar
    Miataplay
    Legend
    2 months ago

    It's really too bad that they(The Team.) couldn't make this functional gameplay.

    I got the same dang phone in my sims 3 game and it's great...but they should have made it playable in sims 4. 🤐🙂

  • I still think they should make real, functional landlines and they could be used as a blocker to incessant smartphone usage. The Goth family, of-the-grid lots and the more rural worlds... they should have landlines for a more realistic situation. I found plenty of places in the game where having a landline would make so much more sense.

  • Haha, i knew they were decoration. I stille wanted it because in my basement at home i actually still got one.

    But the other items are not all that interesting to me, and i just wasted my whole evening, reverting the park in Willow creek. And watching the news for 15 minutes, which are suposed to trigger Emit spawn. Nothing.

    Then i made a second search, i learned, that he can spawn as some one else... if u got MCCC which i dont, and other pages of problems, which i dont really wanna waste time (or my eyes) on. lol

    I am not going to waste anymore time on that, videogaming is a passtime for me, it dont mean i gotta waste time.

  • I read that they were decorations only before the event started. I wasn't surprised but am disappointed by this decision. Not even a shortcut to the phone menu. It's a missed opportunity. 

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