@MidnightAura Sorry to hear that you had to go through this yourself. The advisors I spoke with all made it sound as though this was a total fluke and had never heard of it happening. I told one of them that I feared that the Sims 3 Store website wasn't getting enough attention due to the Sims 4 and he replied by saying that they'd be "Inundated with calls" if the site actually had that kind of problem, lol. I'm glad to hear it all worked out for you and hope that Barnacle Bay does as well!
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@Karritz I saw that with Aurora Skies. It's cheaper to buy the world and the Tiny Prodigies Early Learning Center separately than it is to buy them in the Gold bundle. I don't know why they'd do that, but my best guess would be that they expect most people just won't check. That world's probably a long way off for me though, given my finances now.
I bought Sunlit Tides the same way. I got the Serenity Retreat venue cheap on Daily Deal, then the world later through MMAO (I didn't know that that particular world actually goes on DD sometimes and I could've saved a lot of SimPoints if I'd just waited). I wanted that world pretty badly because the ability to place lots out onto the water means that a ton of lots can be added to the world (though I do worry about the potential routing errors). I also love the overall atmosphere, the lighting and the fact that the rabbit-holes are completely different than the standard remakes of Sunset Valley's. I can't believe how lazy EA got by placing basically the same theater, city hall, etc... into nearly every world. That's always made me sad. Sure, they're different colors, but there's a great collection of mods over at MTS that let's you place CaSTable versions of every rabbit-hole anyway...not to mention the rabbit-hole rugs/doors (which I have, but have yet to try).
Those are the only two I can think of where I bought/would buy the venue and world separately. Do you know if you really miss out on anything doing it that way? That would really stink because I'm never going to be able to go back and re-buy Sunlit Tides Gold and want to save those points on Aurora Skies when/if the time comes. The Gold editions of the worlds I just got (Dragon Valley and Roaring Heights) don't even come with the venues, just SimPoints to spend on them, so I know I'm safe there.
Lucky Palms I bought Gold on a whim through MMAO pretty recently, even though I honestly wasn't overly interested in the world (hasty impulse buy that sucked away the bulk of my remaining SimPoints). Most everyone seems to love it though, so I have a feeling (and hope) that I will too once I give it a chance.
Midnight Hollow Gold (Gold is the only way to get the toy shop, so I gotta do it :smile: ) is next on my list and I'm currently hoping it comes up on a decent MMAO, otherwise I'll just end up buying it full-price because I have just enough SimPoints right now to do that and still have enough left over for a few other small things. That's where I plan on living for quite a while once I really start playing the game more seriously with the primary pair of Sims I've spent dozens of hours obsessively sculpting and tweaking in CAS on and off for months now. Along with some friends I'm creating, of course.
I could see Lunar Lakes and Into the Future going together pretty well. I also give it props for being different. I think the thing that turned me off to it the most was a video I saw which showed that all the rabbit holes are just identical portal-things. It's like EA had all this imagination for the world, then lost it somewhere. None of my Sims have even been to University yet though, so time-traveling is even further out. I got all of the EP's post-Generations (I own all of those older ones on disc from back when they came out) this summer on sale and have a whole lot of catching up to do. That's seven Expansion Packs worth of stuff to try and absorb all at once (along with all the SP's and a bunch of Store venues/PC/stuff). It's completely frying my brain :smiley:
I'm glad to hear another person say that Dragon Valley is great! That makes me feel better about my recent purchase(s)!
It sounds like no one really plays in Roaring Heights, lol. I mainly got it because it was on sale this week, came with 1900 SimPoints and seems like it comes with some cool stuff to use in other worlds. That's pretty sad, considering that it was/is the last Store world that will ever be made. Maybe I'll play there instead, just to be a rebel.
Some of the EP worlds look nice as well (Appaloosa Plains, for example), but I couldn't stand Riverview, Twinbrook, or Bridgeport so I hope that they end up better than those.
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Edit: I'm only now realizing that I've watched YouTube videos reviewing every world except for the ones I just bought on Origin, which is now extremely confusing to me. I can't for the life of me figure out why it didn't occur to me to do what I always do before buying something. Temporary insanity. ???
