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Roseadoodle's avatar
Roseadoodle
Seasoned Rookie
4 days ago
Status:
Under Investigation

Excessive Shopping Cart Popups

Since the last patch I have had continual popups show up on the shopping cart icon, promoting the, Grange Mud Room kit. I used to get a popup every now and again advertising this and that, but now it happens, every time I travel with a sim, every time I enter and leave CAS, every time I go into edit world. It covers in game notifications and is very distracting. At first when I enter the game there is noting on the cart for about 5 minutes, then the light shows up and the popups begin.

I am playing on PC, in a completely vanilla game that has never had mods/CC installed. I have all Expansion, game and stuff pack and also have most kits. 

I am finding this situation to be very invasive in my gaming time and it is putting me off playing and definitely putting me off purchasing any more kits or up and coming packs. 

28 Comments

  • HakhaKZ1's avatar
    HakhaKZ1
    Seasoned Ace
    3 days ago

    I have the same issue. I play on the PS5. It keeps showing the Essential Glam Creator Kit, even though I bought it!
    When saving the Game, in build mode, and even in the CAS. This is very annoying.
    Please fix this immediately! 

  • EowynCarter's avatar
    EowynCarter
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 days ago

    Guess I could tolerate seeing the ads ONCE. But there is a very easy fix : stop advertising in game. 

    Maybe some info in right of the home screen, you actually don't need to interact with. Stop interrupting our game.  No distracting notification, no pop up.

  • EowynCarter's avatar
    EowynCarter
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 days ago

    Done. Crossing my fingers it'll be the end of the shopping cart and I can finally play again. 

  • This has also been happening in my game excessively- and the MOST frustrating part is there is literally only ONE kit that I don't own, and that's not even the ones that keep popping up by the shopping cart.  

    I keep getting the full screen ads when I load my game- again for packs I already own & now I'm getting the annoying shopping cart in game in whatever screen I'm on and whatever world I'm in.

    Again, I literally own everything BUT one kit that I won't ever get.  I should not be seeing all this ad spam and it makes me want to load my game less, and less likely to buy future kits and/or packs.

    It's frustrating enough that we no longer get full stuff packs or game packs, and now everything is in kits which cost less up front, but when compared to the number of items you get in the kits, with what we would get with game packs & stuff packs, it's actually more money in the long run.

    Now I get the added frustration of more aggressive ad spam the have EVER had in all the years I've been playing Sims iterations (TS1, TS2, TS3, Sims Medieval, & TS4), and for stuff I already own.  I'm not ok with this.

    As stated previously, I should not have to download and add a mod which I don't want, simply to be able to immerse myself in my game.

    This is happening in vanilla game & saves, repaired game, with & without mods & constant cache clearing before I start any play session.

  • The pop-ups are actively causing my game to freeze. I'll be in a social menu or any object menu, the game freezes while time is still passing in-game and after a minute the shopping cart blinks and shows an ad and the game catches back up. This is ridiculous. 

  • I keep getting these pop ups even though I bought the kits 😂

  • UYAMAYU's avatar
    UYAMAYU
    Seasoned Vanguard
    11 hours ago

    I'm a PS5 player. It's affecting my gameplay! I can't see notifications. It's so frustrating! If you're going to bother with these crappy updates, at least fix one bug.