Forums practically unusable
I've been an EA customer for... well, I became an EA customer when they bought Maxis. It's been a while. I've never felt the need to use the forums before Veilguard dropped, so while I'm old to EA I'm new to these forums... which exhibit some very strange behavior. Like, I was in a Veilguard forum and looked at related posts only to find myself suddenly reading a guild invite for a Star Trek themed game. etc. etc. I read the new forum info post about many of these outstanding issues, but I wanted to highlight the importance of fixing them for all users, but also on a personal level I'm autistic and sometimes find communicating in places like forums difficult at the best of times (this applies to me. I'm not speaking for everyone with autism). In the past 48 hours since I registered (maybe even less?), trying to navigate the site has been extremely frustrating. Buttons don't work at all, or links lead to unexpected places... and I have to keep reminding myself I need to double-check everything to make sure I'm even in the relevant game, much less the relevant topic. This must be very frustrating for all concerned and I know EA is working on it. But EA's support outside these forums is pretty much non-existent as far as I can tell. Which means forums that grow overly confusing and impossible to navigate without a huge sense of frustration and confusion border on an actual accessibility issue for certain groups of people. It would be great if BioWare would consider prioritizing fixing these forums as such, especially with a major release just dropped that seems to be inspiring a good deal of conversation, including technical issue resolution and the like.
Suggestion - Profile Pictures/Avatars from Older EA Games
I would like to suggest incorporating profile pictures or avatars from older EA games into the EA Forums platform once it fully launches. This small addition could significantly enhance the overall experience, particularly for longtime fans of EA games. For example, Answers HQ has a diverse selection of avatars but primarily focuses on newer titles. As a member of the Battlefield community, I believe it would be fantastic to have avatars from older games like Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 3 available (this can be said for older NFS tittles as well). While I understand that this may not be a current priority, I feel that this minor enhancement could provide a valuable touch of nostalgia and comfort for many users. I believe it could be implemented easily and would be widely appreciated. I would truly like to hear what others think about the suggestion.
Can we have a default sort by newest
As the title says, it would be great if comments on all posts were default sorted by the newest rather than most liked, even if it wasn't a one for all maybe a personal preference type thing. Fairly new to the forum from answers so maybe I'll adjust but it would make more sense to have posts sorted by this and quicker to respond/recognise a solution :) Praise be the mother plant
Not able to load any picture in this 'new' Forum
I am still not able, to load up any Picture in a Post or a PN. Every time, I get a red Inormation Box, that I would have done an Upload about 1000 pictures here and no more would be possible. But I've never done any picture in this new forum. I am not able for that since the Start oft this new forum. I also wrote about the problem in the german EA AQH and put some pictures of the problem there in, because here I cannot show the problem with any picture 🤷🏻♀️ ... They told me 'we are working on it'. Now some month later, the same problem is still existing. Other people are doing pictures in the new forum. Why I'm not able to do this?
"Access Denied"/"This message cannot be found"
After posting a new thread about pages only loading as "Internal Server Error," I restarted my browser as part of my troubleshooting process. This meant I lost all the tabs that I had open to this forum, since I can currently only access it in Incognito mode. When I tried to navigate back to the new thread so I could update it with additional information, I found that: It was not shown on my profile, e.g., under "Most Recent" or "Newest Topics" I could only find it by going into the My Settings > Follows & Notifications, where it was listed under Follows However, attempting to click the link to the topic, I instead got a page titled "Access Denied" with the message "This message cannot be found" My guess is that this is possibly due to some sort of moderation filter/delay on posting new topics, but this is a terrible, terrible design. Even if posts aren't yet publicly visible, the users who created them should be able to navigate to them to edit or add to them. (I will add that when you make this your only way to report issues and get help, it's extra egregious to add a significant, noticeable delay to posts going live, particularly when you don't warn people it will happen. If I hadn't started digging around, I would have just assumed my post had disappeared and and submitted a second version of it.)
EA Forums is Really Not User Friendly!!
These Forums are not Very nice To Use. For Example It seems To Try To Be a Reddit Thread but Is Worse. The Topic says New Reply and You Have to Click “See More” A Bunch of Times, Sometimes on the Same Thread and Hope that’s the Right one! And You’re lucky if it Doesn’t Send you To the Bottom of The Page each time When you Click See More. I am on an IPhone and Have this Issue every Time. Click See More, Boom I’m at The bottom Of The Page. Trying to Find the one New Reply in a 30+ Comments Thread, that’s a Bunch of See More clicks Hoping I Find the Right one!
One page from which we can access ALL sub-forums
Feel free to embarrass me if this already exists here and I've just failed to find it. But...exactly as the title says. One of the things I miss the most about the previous Sims forum is the home page, where every child, grandchild and great-grandchild category was listed and linked to right there, and navigating between sub-categories didn't require one to click through multiple screens (while waiting for each to load properly). Even if it doesn't wind up being the home page itself, can we at least get something like that back--and make that page properly bookmarkable, without the bookmark redirecting us to the present home page? Thanks for at least considering!
You've reached your limit for uploading images
Trying to post an image a few days ago I just got the message that I've reached my upload limit for images, and that I cannot post images any longer. What is even more surprising is that this applies to linked to images as well - even though they do not cause strain on the servers at all and is NOT uploaded to the servers. Just to be clear, I've cleared cash, logged out, logged in again and tried different threads as well as different images, and still the same result. This is not a temporary glitch. I've since read the rules very carefully and NO WHERE can I find the information that there is a limit to how many images I may upload or link to. With a community so based on pictures as the sims-community is this is make it or break it. I cannot take part in screenshot threads started by the gurus. I cannot upload images of my builds in threads asking for images. I cannot complete my projects of NoCC decades fashion. I cannot complete my story by using screenshots, nor start any stories in the future. In essence, I am unable to take part in a large part of what makes this community. EA_Cadeand EA_Nils I have written to you both privately on this matter and yet I get no answer. Is this really what it's supposed to be like?
