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SimsTime
Seasoned Ace
7 months ago

Feedback: Poor Image Quality in Marketplace Interface Elements

I’m making this post to bring the developers’ attention to the image quality of the Marketplace interface elements. At the moment, the quality appears quite poor, with many elements in the store displaying low resolution, while a few others look noticeably sharper. This creates a clear visual inconsistency across the interface

 

I’d like to start with the bar that displays the available amount of Moola. The edges appear very blurry and poorly defined, and the ‘+’ button also looks noticeably low resolution.”

 

The filter buttons also appear noticeably blurry and low resolution, particularly around their edges. This is visible both when the mouse is hovering over them and when it is not.

 

The text below the large pack-type icons also appears blurry, which becomes even more noticeable when hovering the mouse over them.

 

The icon representing the Makers Packs appears in very poor quality on the pack information pages. The resolution looks extremely low.

 

The object thumbnails in the game also appear quite blurry, likely because they are being upscaled. This gives the images a noticeably degraded and unclear appearance.

 

The back button also appears to be in low resolution.

 

The smaller version of the Moola bar shown in other areas of the store also has a noticeably low-resolution appearance.

 

The purchase button also shows low-resolution edges.

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Well, this concludes my feedback regarding the Marketplace. My intention in pointing out these issues is simply to help improve the visual quality of the interface and make it more polished and appealing. In my view, the interface shouldn’t contain images and buttons that appear in such low resolution.

16 Replies

  • ClaireTheMusical's avatar
    ClaireTheMusical
    Traveler
    7 months ago

    I agree! I find it very annoying that I can basically only see one row of DLC at a time. Because of this, it's rather painful to scroll through my owned DLC or look at the maker packs.

  • SugarCookieQueen's avatar
    SugarCookieQueen
    Rising Adventurer
    7 months ago

    I thought the same thing about pack selection. I have several save files with different packs so I use this feature quite often. I don't really have that many packs, even still, selecting packs is quite hard since the new update. I love pack selection having cover images though. But when it comes to ease of selecting packs and jumping right into game, I like the old one.

  • NoahLGP's avatar
    NoahLGP
    Seasoned Ace
    7 months ago

    UI is probably optimized for console and TV 4K display.

  • sallycutecat's avatar
    sallycutecat
    Rising Ace
    7 months ago

    Pack Selecter is my main gripe here. I don't intend to use Marketplace other than to claim free stuff, but since Pack Selecter is inside Marketplace, the UI issues are a problem here. I'd have rathered it stay in the game options where it used to be. It doesn't make sense to me why managing my Marketplace downloads are there, but I have to go into Marketplace to manage my other packs bought outside of the game. 

    I also use Pack Selecter a fair bit. I have my old pc connected to the TV and when I want to clarify whether a feature is base game or from a certain pack when making my videos becuase I want to be accurate, I use Pack Selecter to do so and test. I do it on my old pc so that I don't accidently mess something up for my usual play. 

  • sallycutecat's avatar
    sallycutecat
    Rising Ace
    7 months ago

    I find generally that the higher the resolution, the smaller the UI is in comparison to the screen size. In this game the default UI for 1440p is smaller than it was on my previous 1080p monitor, which was smaller than on my previous 720p laptop. Even the computer's homescreen icons are smaller physically, the higher the resolution. In Marketplace the UI doesn't seem to scale down, so when you're on a larger screen the UI is physically bigger. On my brother's 4K TV the pack images will be even bigger than my phone's physical size. 

  • sallycutecat's avatar
    sallycutecat
    Rising Ace
    7 months ago

    Adding on to my original post which is completely different to this thread. I don't know why it was merged and I was not told it was merged. My feedback was specifically about the UI being too big, which is very different to this one about the quality. Now my feedback will be buried because of this, which I am not happy about. Please undo this change. 

    But the Pack Selecter looks a mess when there's no internet connection. I had to play offline today due to an issue with my internet protection which has now being resolved, but I took a look at Pack Selecter and it doesn't load the pack images at all which makes the large image size a waste of space. I have included the screenshot I took of it. The old layout was much easier to read.