This shopping cart icon issue really baffles me. Personally, I'm not too bothered by an easy option to add new stuff to the game without restarting (if that's really what it does; if I'm not mistaken, EA_Cade is still trying to find out), but making it so obtrusive is another story. With all the accessibility features this game has, surely someone should have considered that a flashing light in the corner of the screen might pose a health hazard to some players. That being said, I have not updated my own game and haven't seen it for myself yet.
When it comes to a high singing skill preventing sims from interacting with others, though, I can't blame anyone. This is so random that the developers probably never thought of it themselves. Still, with all these strange issues, I may not get Crystal Creations as close to release as I was planning to after all. I wasn't going to install the patch this week anyway because I'm in the middle of shooting two very important Occult episodes back to back and can't afford to wait for mod updates now. Instead, I'll wait and see if an emergency patch for the most glaring issues will come out soon.
