September Sale is blocking in game notifications

Hello to add to this. I am not finding it blocks notifications. However it is coming up every 5m or so which is highly immersion breaking in the game. These notifications really need to stop.

Agreed it is so annoying. I'm trying to read the notifications and it pops up. It seem s to pop up if you are anywhere near the basket or changing lots.. I know there is a sale I already have all packs games and other bits, only 4 kits I don't own as I'm not interested in them (CAS). Please give us an option to turn off the basket. I already see you have a sale with the main screen and on steam page.

Its extremely aggregating and I've been playing long enough to remember them saying there would NEVER be in game ads in TS4. At least TS3 allowed us to disable them.

This feels like a giant experiment that has failed miserably for EA but they don't want to admit it and remove this feature. Remove the cart PLEASE!! I would be very shocked if the cart has added to their sales enough to cover the backlash of consumers complaining about it and, like other simmers have mentioned, making them sour over buying anything else.

FatherTea wrote:

Agreed!! It's ridiculous considering they're advertising it both when you open the EA app AND quite a few times on the menu screen! It's utterly ridiculous, makes me consider downloading those ad-blocker mods just to stop all the pop-ups T^T

Every time I try playing without mods again (I played vanilla for many years but it just gets old dealing with cheats to fix issues all the time), I realize that I might as well continue using them because of how invasive and annoying EA has become. Half the time I play offline to avoid the ads and such, which then affects my game counter. I don't really care about that at this point, though, since it's just too annoying otherwise. I also am getting tired of playtesting for free, and I suspect a lot of simmers are getting to this point as well. Why should I remove mods and play how they want me to, just to report bugs? Maybe if I was getting packs for free I wouldn't be so mad, but I've obviously paid a lot (like most people here) to play a GAME. It should be fun, not annoying and making people rage-quit.

It blocks notifications for me.

This report needs to be merged with the "Excessive/Remove Shopping Cart Button" report that also has 385 votes and growing! This button needs to be removed completely! The ads are getting more and more invasive and there is no reason for this to be IN game! Just logging in and getting bombarded is more than adequate. 

Please also vote that report here: 

https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/excessive-shopping-cart-popups/12504430

Agreed with everyone else here, this is so invasive and irritating - I hate little notification bubbles in general anyway and always want to get rid of them, and this one continuously popping up every time I load the game, travel, go in and out of build mode, or open a menu like the calendar makes me want to pull my hair out. Also, it seems to interfere with keyboard shortcuts? Not sure exactly, but it seems like sometimes if I've just hovered over it to make it go away (rather than clicking on the cart icon), I can't use my keyboard to pause, play, fast forward, etc. I can't travel using M either. But I can still use the ESC key and tab mode still works??? I have to click on the cart icon and open and close the store page for everything to work again. Haven't seen anyone else mention it so it may just be me for some reason. Either way, I don't know who thought this was a good idea in addition to the multiple fullscreen popups every time you load the game. :/

In my game the controls for time stops working every time the "September sale is on" banner pops up, so I can't fast forward or anything. I have to open the store and then go back to the game every time. Very annoying