☢️ Almost THREE months, HUNDREDS of complaints and pleas, and FINALLY they're doing what we've begged them to, or are they? - A very short rant. ⚡ Finishing my sentences and edits for clarity.
THIS IS A RANT. YOU'RE WELCOME TO IGNORE IT. I DO THESE THINGS FOR PERPETUITY.
The Bug Report for Happy At Home began on June 7, 2024.
I like how on September 23, 2024, they were FINALLY aware of the problem of lost Happy At Home rewards, not because of the almost THREE MONTH OLD Bug Report, but because of the replacement Bug Report they created for console simmers who LOST THEIR REWARDS WITH Update 9/18/2024 after they archived the old one.
Now, I'm happy to read that we're finally getting this resolved, but why are they framing this as though the rest of us on PC/Mac haven't been complaining about this for months?
Every time I've complained about this, every post I've made concerning this, I, as a PC simmer, have included a statement about console simmers having no good solution other than EAxis unlocking these items for all of us.
I truly hope they're not patching console simmers only.
If you're not aware, consoles don't get the same updates we do on PC/Mac. They don't always get updated the same time we do, nor do they always get the same bug-fixes we do. When Update 7/23/2024 broke our games, we on PC/Mac received an update fixing the panel bug and the mean bug, but console simmers had to wait - was it almost a week - to get that.
I suppose this is a "I'll believe it when I see it" type deal because right now everyone's harping on about the accountDataDB.package file and how our HAH entitlements are now in there instead of in UserSetting.INI, BUT THAT'S ONLY IF YOUR INI CONTAINED THE STRING OF CODE THAT UNLOCKS THE HAH REWARDS. If you lost your items and you never knew about that INI modification, accountDataDB don't do !@#$ for you. At least it didn't do !@#$ for me.
All this back and forth and round and round for an issue they could have resolved a month ago by doing the responsible thing instead of sideways blaming us for their !@#$ up.
Heavy sigh.
I really hope this is the end of the Happy At Home fiasco. I'm not gonna put as much energy into fighting the FOMO thing, because I know they won't listen, but I will drag them for Happy At Home Til Thy Kingdom Come if that's what it takes. At least with Reaper the rewards are permanent and they have 6 weeks to iron out the bugs so the event works and one week for us all to complete it, or they can extend it, though I doubt they'd do the latter.
Here's the original Happy At Home Bug Report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Issues/ARCHIVED-Happy-Home-Login-Event-Claimed-items-disappear/m-p/13784099
This was my original comment in that now archived Bug Report where I explained the INI modification and begged EAxis to right by all of us. It was removed along with every comment I made after that trying to help other PC/Mac simmers by pointing them to my INI comment and my comments to PS/XB simmers telling them they'd have to find the items on the Gallery until EAxis does the responsible thing and unlocks the rewards: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Issues/Happy-Home-Login-Event-Claimed-items-disappear-Have-to-start/m-p/13884974/highlight/true#M13933
Here's the new Happy At Home Bug Report for PS/XB: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/PS-XB-Happy-Login-Rewards-removed-Patch-1-99/m-p/14049752#M293504
Here's my old Reddit post that I created immediately after I realized I had lost my Happy At Home Rewards: https://new.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/1e7j6ap/
Here's my new Game Feedback & Ideas thread that I started a week ago because even though I have resolved this for myself with my FOMO Unlock mods, I am still concerned about the rest of the community and I am still enraged by EA and EAxis' nonsense. As a consumer, it is my right be displeased and to criticize - don't forget it's been 10 years of nonsense like this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Feedback-Ideas/No-More-FOMO-Events/m-p/14054083#M5586
Here's EAxis' first X post: https://x.com/TheSimsDirect/status/1838369150508429354
Here's EAxis' second X post: https://x.com/thesimsdirect/status/1839817481117970641?t=h5l2YBP_5kJr9pwKvQ2z_g
Cheers! I'm going to post this over on Tumblr and then... I just woke up actually. I'm eating breakfast at 7:27 PM UTC-4. I don't get much sleep, so my body takes what it needs when it needs it. I've been asleep since maybe 5 AM this morning. I made my Promo Removal mod though!
In case you're reading this and don't know by now, I've got FOMO Unlocks available for both Happy At Home and Reaper's Rewards, and the HAH post includes the INI modification.