👹 It's Patch Day and the Happy At Home fiasco is finally resolved, with a catch. - A short rant that I'll expand later if necessary. I need to update my mods.

👹 YOU CAN FIND MY FOMO UNLOCKS HERE - https://.../884492?view=condensed

TL;DR: As expected, EAxis managed to !@#$ up even this and I'm still using my FOMO Unlock mod. You can keep it or remove it, it's up to you. Happy At Home is unlocked, it's just not unlocked properly.

The catch is that instead of removing the lock code to truly unlock the items, the way I did in my FOMO Unlock, they instead... did some other !@#$. I think they added the entitlement data to our account data, the way Reaper's entitlement data is added to our account data. 👹 11/21/24 - Turns out this ain't exactly true, is it. https://www.patreon.com/posts/116453224

Why is this an issue? Well, I'ma tell it to ya'!

Happy At Home has always had an additional problem. The reason I made the FOMO Unlock was because the .INI modification never worked 100%. Something has always been missing, and that something results in the Happy At Home CAS items constantly regaining the "NEW CONTENT" gold badge. You just have to switch categories in CAS to see it pop back up again and again and again and again, ad infinitum.

*️⃣ This is EAxis' "account-bound" unlock in action:

*️⃣ This is my FOMO Unlock overriding EAxis' half-arsery:

This is a MINOR issue, very, very MINOR, but it's an issue, an unnecessary issue, and whatever neurodivergence I have makes it an irritating issue. It's an irritating issue because I know it's an unnecessary issue. I know that if EAxis did what I did to FOMO Unlock Happy At Home- <HEAVY SIGH>

Barring them somehow removing the entitlements from our account data, this is the last time I will rant about Happy At Home.

Now let's talk briefly about these patch notes - https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/update-10-1-2024

Is it narcissism? I know I have narcissistic tendencies - I was "raised by" a toxic narcissist, but I'm not talking about me.

Almost a year after the Always-Online SimCity™ (2013) scandal of lies and bullshittery, EAxis released an offline patch, framing it as a gift to the community, as though they hadn't pathologically lied up to and after the release of SimCity™ (2013) about Always-Online being a core concept of the game that the game simply couldn't work without. Always-Online is what killed the SimCity™ franchise, because EA, despite being an estimated $37.9 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, refuses to invest in adequate servers. Folks don't really understand or accept that The Sims 4 (2014) suffers from server woes but it does and it's why going offline in App and game is a form of troubleshooting. It's why the idea of a future Sims game having "Online features" terrifies me.

More recently, CD Projekt Red lied about the state and features of Cyberpunk 2077, released it before it was ready, and since then have proceeded to gaslight anyone who criticized the state of the game or them for their pathological lying.

We changed how Event rewards are stored with our September 18 update. After this change, we learned that some Simmers are missing rewards they earned through the Happy At Home Event we ran earlier this year.

THE BUG REPORT IS THREE MONTHS OLD. I WAS PRESENT AND INVOLVED. WERE THEY NOT INVOLVED? IS ANSWERSHQ JUST A WATERING HOLE THEY STOP BY ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS?

The addition of the Happy At Home Event rewards with today’s update are a one-time make good to thank you for your patience as we continue to work on, and improve, Events in The Sims 4.

IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH EA ISN'T A 42 YEAR-OLD COMPANY SPECIALIZING IN GAME DE- WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, ARE WE PRETENDING WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE THREE MONTH OLD BUG REPORT OR ARE WE ADMITTING WE KNEW AND JUST DID NOT A !@#$?

Should I explain to the people how easy it is to unlock these FOMO rewards, because it doesn't require entitlement data and it certainly doesn't require THREE MONTHS of "improvements" and- by "patience" do they mean stating the event is over and there's nothing to be done, or removing all actual solutions, temporarily banning simmers for helping other simmers and calling it disruptive spam, telling me they believe "Gaming is for everyone.™" while- y'know, they could've just said, "we're working on improving future events and making them account-bound and we will unlock Happy At Home for everyone in a future patch, please bear with us." It ain't that !@#$in' hard, but it would've required them acknowledging they !@#$ed up.

Say, are we on a three-month issue resolution cycle? If so, can I expect a half-arsed "fix" for our bodies in a month's time? - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Spine-distortion-on-male-Sims-with-female-frame/td-p/13895791