Way too much phone action now during chatting

I have no mods or CC in my game and noticed an increase in phone action as soon as I'd downloaded the new update. My active sim was constantly playing on his phone whilst walking along. And when he tried to talk to another of my Sims, who turned up at the same karaoke bar, that sim was also constantly texting and even had a rather angry phone call during the attempted conversation (which was actually quite funny. Wonder who he was arguing with?).

I'm hoping this excessive phone use doesn't become a regular occurrence in the game because that will be annoying.

Yeah, it's happening in my game too and it's really annoying. Yesterday when my werewolf Sim was rampaging, she still managed to pull her phone out and browse.

I hope they fix it soon.

My Teen Rock Star is almost always on his phone, even before the patch. So far, I'm not noticing a change in his behavior. But, I do hope he doesn't get kicked out of class because he's on his phone! :open_mouth:

Lol thanks for giving me even more reasons to not update my game. I already heavily dislike all the phone addicts in the game so I'm NOT charmed at all with the idea that it'll be even more excessive. Like, bruh, there is an actual quirk for phone addiction in Get Famous. Can we just leave it at that.

E.g. this was their idea of a "social gathering" when Alexander invited Axel to hang out with club friends. (After that little manic episode Axel autonomously proceeded to insult the nearest person. He was kinda my spirit animal right there.)
https://i.imgur.com/3l5uG1l.jpg

This is again why I wouldn't still be playing if I hadn't learned how to mod. But I can tell I'm going to be busy for a few days; already made two new ones and added back in four more, and the pack hasn't even come out yet.

It's everywhere!

During social chats, on the Sim's way to the bath, heck, one of my female Sims even pulled out her cellphone while swimming in the ocean (no idea where she keeps it storaged in that swimsuit of hers). On the positive side, cellphones are waterproof.

I thought this would be something I would easily ignore, but come on...

I finally caught my Teen Rock Star walking while doing something on his cellphone. He may have been browsing, I don't know. He didn't have it on his ear, which is quite possible to walk and chew gum, but no. He reminded me of a video that hit the evening news and went viral The gal was at a shopping mall and so engrossed with what was on her cellphone screen, she fell over a slight barrier and into the fountain! I do wonder if bruises come with this pack?

"Fairy_Happy;c-18157705" wrote:
Yeah, it's happening in my game too and it's really annoying. Yesterday when my werewolf Sim was rampaging, she still managed to pull her phone out and browse.

I hope they fix it soon.

@Fairy_Happy My teen werewolf pulled out her phone to do this while rampaging and I rather love it
https://i.postimg.cc/2SqvR4Kw/rampage-text2.png

Art imitates life, but this is way too excessive. Phone, Phone, What Baby?, Phone, Phone, "I'll never look up!", Phone, Phone, Oops another fire, Phone, Phone, Phone, I know the light is green but I still have a text to respond to.

Please...at least make a switch to turn off the phone use, for those of us who are not zombie slaves.

I've had my adults, elders and technophobes start using phones no matter what they're doing. Even while swimming they're still trying to use that phone.

It is a little excessive!

I can only picture how some time period players will react when their 1600s Victorian starts using a phone suddenly