#sejianisranting

[sejianismodding]

👹 I noticed something after finally completing my Reaper's Rewards. Today I investigated.

"KEEP READING" to read this on Tumblr.

It's important that you know how your game works when you're dealing with bullshit.

Happy At Home IS - for lack of a better explanation - "account-bound". It's just done incompetently and that's why the "NEW CONTENT" gold badge keeps popping up on the CAS items (I haven't checked the BB objects).

Reaper's Rewards IS NOT "account-bound", it's EAxis "server-bound".

Entitlement data is pulled from the server and stored in "accountDataDB.package". EA App must be in Online Mode for this to happen. If your EA App is in Offline Mode - intentionally because you did it yourself or unintentionally because you have !@#$ internet like me or because EAxis' servers are !@#$ - and you lose your "accountDataDB.package" and cannot reconnect to EAxis' servers, you will lose access to your "server-bound" rewards until you can reconnect and relaunch the game.

You need to actually launch or relaunch the game while both EA App and The Sims 4 are in Online Mode for this entitlement data to populate the "accountDataDB.package". I might refine this statement in the future if I decide to troubleshoot more.

Let's talk about the difference between how Happy At Home was initially full-arsed and how Reaper's Rewards is unlocked.

Happy At Home was never "server-bound" or "account-bound", it was "device-bound". It stored one-time (like the way EAxis said they'll only fix their Live Event !@#$ ups "one-time, make-good" - yeah, they ain't gettin' away from that statement) entitlement data in the "UserSetting.ini" file, which meant if your .INI was deleted or corrupted or lost, there goes your Happy At Home rewards. Of course, this could be easily remedied for simmers on PC and Mac, etc. by just adding the required string of entitlement data back into the .INI - which EAxis refused to tell you or let anyone else tell you - but console simmers were !@#$ed unless they could access the Gallery and find one of the Households or Rooms with all the rewards that were uploaded by "Good Samaritan" simmers.

The initial Happy At Home full-arsery evolved into what we have now AKA the buggy "NEW CONTENT" half-arsed "account-bound" unlock - they say it's "account-bound" but it could be a half-arsed "override patch" similar to my no-arse Happy At Home FOMO Unlock. Yuh can't pull the wool over my eyes, fam, I've been gaming for half of my life and I know how to do some !@#$.

As explained above, Reaper's Rewards is... different. On the bright side of EAxis seemingly only now starting to learn how to "Live Event account-bound" in 2024, it means if you lose your "accountDataDB.package" you can still get your entitlement data back by "simply" reconnecting to EAxis' servers and launching or relaunching the game. This wasn't possible with Happy At Home. On the dark side, it means if EAxis !@#$s up on their end and you've lost your "accountDataDB.package", you can permanently lose Reaper's Rewards.

On the me side, 🦄 my FOMO Unlocks give zero !@#$s about EAxis and their "server-bound" entitlements and "account-bound" half-arsery. They will always work unless EAxis decides to !@#$ around.

It never ends, does it?

Why do game publishers insist on holding our games hostage after taking our money? Did you hear about the recent fiascos with other publishers removing purchased games from customers' libraries?

The last time the industry crashed it was the fault of the publishers. If it crashes again, it will be the fault of the publishers again - not the pirates and not "woke ideology" or pronouns or gender-neutral vocabulary. I'm soap-boxing, sorry.

If you'd like to test my claim...

1️⃣ EXIT the game.

2️⃣ BACKUP your "accountDataDB.package" for your own ease of mind - I just delete mine, I don't give no !@- 😹 You can simply RENAME it to "accountDataDB.packageOFF". You need "File name extensions" ENABLED to do this.

3️⃣ GO OFFLINE in EA App.

4️⃣ LAUNCH the game and enter CAS. The game can be in Online Mode, it don't matter.

5️⃣ Reaper's Rewards has Clothing Top and Clothing Bottom CAS items so choose either of those categories and try to FILTER for the SPECIAL "Event Rewards" tag. It ain't there, innit? It ain't there because Reaper's Rewards aren't available. Reaper's Rewards aren't available because you ain't got no entitlement data on your account.

6️⃣ Because we can, switch to Full Body and FILTER again for "Event Rewards"… Oh look! Half-arsed Happy At Home is here! Yes, I know I punctuated "it's" wrong.

7️⃣ Now that you've seen what you can't un-know, EXIT the game, DELETE the new "accountDataDB.package", RENAME the old "accountDataDB.packageOFF" to remove the "OFF", GO ONLINE in EA App (or not, it doesn't matter because the entitlement data is in your old "accountDataDB.package") and gwan wit yo bad self.

EAxis doesn't know what the !@#$ they're doing and they should stop this !@#$ and go back to SDX... or they do and they're intentionally !@#$ing around. 👹

I said I wouldn't talk about Happy At Home again.

Technically I'm talking about Reaper's Rewards.

It's important that you know how your game works when you're dealing with bullshit.

Cheers!

I will never get into the "EA Partnership Program" thing with my attitude. 😹

[sejianismodding]

Hi! I'm Sej. It's short for Sejian.

I've been meaning to get my butt on Tumblr for a while. I make little mods for games like The Sims 4 and I rant about sleazy corporate behavior. I also troubleshoot issues and I like slapping little colorful emojis everywhere.

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Keep an eye on my 🦄 Modding Announcements Post. It's where I post announcements for, well everything really.

If you're looking for the fix for our broken bodies, you can grab it directly from SFS 🌺 here. My FOMO Unlocks can be grabbed from SFS 👹 here. A collection of my Neurodiversity mods is available ♾️ here, and AnimXGenWear and My Little Animation Overrides can be found 💜 here. Other download options are available in the Patreon posts.

Cheers!

I'm working on overhauling my hashtags for navigation - I can't function in a mess. I'll look into Tumblr's other features or a different theme at a later date. For now, you can use the custom me-specific hashtags below to navigate around.

[sejianismodding]

☢️ Tumblr, why?! - A short Tumblr-exclusive rant.

I changed the URLs for a couple content posts and they've now apparently disappeared from the Tumblr ecosystem.

There's a note that says "This feature has some known issues. Use with caution." next to the re-dating feature, why isn't there one at the top of that entire section?!

I'm trying to organize my Patreon posts a little better. I'll deal with Tumblr in good time.

I also have a Bluesky now if you're interested. I will not be posting update notifications because I want it function as a list of my mods. Each mod gets one post. Maybe I do update notifications in replies.

There's only a few mods listed there right now - the most recently released and recently updated.