"S100Headache;15317999" wrote:
EA wants Maxis to be hip and with it. Constant cell phone usage is EA's idea of "hip and with it".
On top of that, the cell phone is very good at keeping Sims' Fun and Social motives up. Maybe that is causing autonomous usage...
People are sick of it. It's not exciting or funny to watch. Even the patch notes question the wisdom of giving everyone a supercomputer smartphone:
"Who gave the kids a phone anyway? In my day kids didn’t have access to a phone. If they wanted to invite a stranger to a bar, they had to walk to their house… in the snow… uphill… both ways… during an earthquake… without any shoes on… and they had to ask the stranger in Latin!"
Yes, and when they asked him, he wouldn't accept until they'd beaten him in a duel. Ahh, I remember those days myself ...
Seriously, though, I would love to be able to get rid of the cellphones altogether and make my sims use an old fashioned landline if they want to phone anybody. I already have houses where the sims have no computers, because they spend too much time playing on them. I like playing on computers myself, I just don't find it much fun watching somebody else do it.
