Console Controller Feedback

My Xbox literally doesn't work.  Bb doesn't work.  Live mode doesn't work.  Please reverse the changes you made to consoles.  It wasn't broken before but it is now 

After trying to play for a few more hours, it seems to me that the set of updates for the console is even more misguided, unwanted, unnecessary, and intrusive. Certainly, the trainee who proposed the "improvements" played very little (if that much) on a console. A controller is not a mouse, it lacks speed and precision. Perhaps for this reason, point-and-click games are generally not successful on consoles. If the Maxis team is really interested in providing changes "that align our console experience more closely with that of the PC", then let the console users use mods!

I will say that the new build interface for me is the most irritating change with this new update. I feel like what the old way it was easier to build without consley having a distraction of the items in your view. I play on Xbox and I've been playing The Sims since the original Xbox hello The Sim's Busting Out. I also feel like there should be a way to have an interface that people want and have an interface option where you can toggle between the new interface and the old interface if you're used to it. Also while you're at it create a toggle so that way we can sort all of the new stuff that's added or that we buy so that way it's easier to locate in the CAS and the build / buy mode.

I keep trying to close the menu as it is in my way and I try to press B and it is so annoying. I hate that I can’t close the menu anymore. I very much dislike that when I click on a couch it pulls up other couches because that’s annoying. I try to press RB and LB to switch between different rooms for furniture and they don’t work anymore. Half of the time when I try to rotate my furniture it won’t work anymore. Also it’s extremely annoying when it won’t let me pick the color of the item in the catalog before placing it. All in all it needs to be reverted like it was before the update. I’m extremely upset I can build houses anymore. 

I understand wanting to make it easier by not having to exit out of the catalog, but at least make the scrolling D pad friendly. It was so much easier to scroll through items and item designs before and after this update, it's impossible. Now we have to click and drag the scroller which makes it harder to see items in the lists.

I just want to be able to use the D pad buttons to scroll the items, not have to use a cursor to try and find an item, especially when the cursors are sensitive. 

I’ve noticed when I click an item in buy mode if I want to check other swatches I have to click onto another item and then I can click on the swatch tap . It’s an inconvenience as I used to just be able to click an item and then check other swatches straight away. ! Also my page up and page down to go up and down floors doesn’t work ! Thank you 🙂 

I'm on the Xbox series x and Originally I was really excited, the fact that the catalogue stays open is actually great, but we need the option to close it when we want to. 

Unfortunately the rest of the controls are really rough. Navigating it when it works is doable but difficult. It now requires more precision to select swatches (or variants for counters, sectionals, and bunk beds) and that precision makes it difficult for players with reduced mobility/fine motor skills and players with drifting controllers. 

Furthermore, it doesnt always work as intended. Sometimes using the left thumbstick scrolls through the catalog (good) but sometimes even when the category is selected you need to manually scroll by clicking and holding the bar, this brings back the precision issue I mentioned earlier. 

And the terrain manipulation also only works half the time. Sometimes it will apply the controls for the 'buy mode' portion. For example- 

When in terrain mode, clicking X should cycle the slider, but it instead tries to change the swatch of the ground. 

My ideal solution would be to 

1. Make these changes optional

2. Add the option to either minimize the catalogue or pin it open 

3. Fix the control modes not working appropriately for building/landscaping 

In addition, my game freezes when trying to take photographs. I can change poses, filters, photo size, flash, and I can move the camera but I can't take the photo or close out of it, forcing me to restart my game losing progress, it seems like this issue is being caused by the issues as the build mode. 

Thanks

The smoothness is better I will admit but the whole of build mode changing is unusable, I’m zooming out when I want to scroll through the items, I want to put a window somewhere and then suddenly I’ve picked a completely different window because the items are constantly open and are able to be clicked on while holding an item, to scroll through the items, which is a lot when you have all the packs, we have to click on the bar and hold it to scroll down to view them all and that’s only one speed, it’s too fast and makes the whole building process so much longer and more frustrating, some may like it I understand but for the ones that don’t, perhaps make it so we can choose or perhaps ask about major changes that the majority of people won’t want, I have Sims 4 on ps5 ps4 and PC and I always prefer playing on console to PC. Holding a controller is much more easier for me and convenient as I have a toddler running around and cables get in the way. I have a lot of patience and like learning new things and even I am losing my temper at the new build mode, I implore you, please give the option to change between having this new version and the old one or simply just reverse it. I am impressed you’ve already started to take feedback when the patch isn’t even 24 hours old, and I’m very glad you’re willing to see if you can change this, thank you