[BG] FOMO Unlock - All-in-One Live Event Rewards Unlocker

This is an All-in-One ARCHIVE containing every "FOMO Unlock" that I have released up to whenever you're reading this.

Each "FOMO Unlock" unlocks all Event Rewards for the corresponding Live Event whether or not you started or completed the Live Event. Cheers!

Included in this All-in-One are individual overrides for the following Live Events:

• Happy At Home - EAxis unlocked this for everyone, but they mucked it up.
• Reaper's Rewards
• Cozy Celebrations
• Blast From The Past

1. Download the zip ARCHIVE.
2. OPEN or EXTRACT the zip ARCHIVE.
3. Toss the "#Sej" folder containing the individual PACKAGE files into your Mods folder or toss just the individual PACKAGE files into your Mods folder.
4. Launch your game and ensure "Enable Custom Content and Mods" is enabled in GAME OPTIONS > OTHER.
5. Go wild.

I fine-tune my FOMO Unlocks for "Live Event Compatibility", meaning they can remain in your Mods folder while the Live Event is "live" and they will not interfere with event progression - all new FOMO items are unlocked and available in their respective locations, but you can still progress through the event chain to ensure the account entitlements for the new FOMO items are added to your account data.

Live Event Compatibility only concerns the event progress chain and does not affect the event quests in Live Mode in any way. If an Unlock isn't Live Event Compatible, you might see broken item images in the event progress chain or the "Claim" button might not work, or the little junk items in-between the new FOMO items won't be added to your inventory upon claiming them.

Due to some shenanigans I encountered while creating the FOMO Unlock for Blast From The Past, I wasn't able to guarantee Live Event Compatibility before the event started, but now I have confirmed it - I completed all Week (1) quests and claimed all Week (1) rewards with my FOMO Unlock in my Mods folder. Cheers!

You can expect at least TWO (2) updates every time a new event is released:

• ONE (1) update to add the new FOMO Unlock to the ARCHIVE whenever the content is added to the game - this can happen on or before the scheduled start date for the event, e.g. Blast From The Past unlocking weeks in advance.
• ONE (1) update after the event ends to remove the "Live Event Compatibility" fine tuning - it's not needed after the event ends, so I remove it and modify the Unlock for longevity.
• Besides that, there's always the possibility of updates during the Live Event if EAxis changes anything concerning the event rewards in an official update.

I have been doing this since Happy At Home because I was one of the many simmers who lost my event rewards due to EAxis' UserSetting.ini incompetence. Their lack of support, lack of an adequate solution, lack of communication apart from "back up your UserSetting.ini" and "the event is over", the subsequent THREE (3) MONTHS it took them to resolve the issue, and the "one time make good" obnoxious attitude they threw at us when they finally fixed it, was unacceptable - and don't get me started on getting temporarily banned from Answers HQ for trying to help other simmers by sharing the simple text-based UserSetting.ini fix before I made the first FOMO Unlock. EAxis prefers you scouring the internet for "shady solutions" for the problems they create that they are content with dragging their feet on.

Beyond that, I simply despise this kind of FOMO that penalizes your "loyal fanbase" for simply having a life and not being able to play when you want them to.

As long as I'm alive and the internet works, I will be here, waiting in the shadows, with a metaphorical hatchet.

"Entitlement data" for event rewards (excluding those from Happy At Home) is stored on EAxis' servers and populates "accountDataDB.package". If you lose your "accountDataDB.package" and you cannot connect to EAxis' servers for any reason, you will lose access to all event rewards even if you legitimately completed all events and claimed all rewards during those events. It's the Happy At Home UserSetting.ini fiasco all over again with a different coat of paint, and it is the other reason why I continue to create FOMO Unlocks.

Happy At Home is the only event with rewards that come close to being truly account-bound (post EAxis fixing their UserSetting.ini screw up), but the half-baked method that was used to unlock them results in the "New Content" gold badge reappearing on the items constantly. My FOMO Unlock don't do that.

EAxis is manufacturing artificial FOMO with these "Limited-Time Live Events" that they refuse to unlock for all simmers even after the events end. They have been trying for some time to get us to this point where this type of thing is accepted by the larger community.

In 2023, they tried to do "EA Play" subscription-locked content for console simmers only. It backfired. Now we're here.

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Also, don't look too hard. You might start noticing the other things they've broken.