While this is good to some respects and I totally get there are many players who would absolutely love having Medieval/Royalty items and themes to play in our games. I may be one of the oddballs that doesn't get into that kind of thing LOL. So to have to purchase a whole expansion just to get that world when we could have actually had it for free... really is disheartening.
It is the same thing with like Life and Death. In my personal life, it has been met with a lot of recent tragedies. So to play something as "dark" as this expansion is not for me. Yet, there are some really beautiful items both CAS and Buy/Buildmode from that pack I would just love to have in my game. It is times like these I wish they brought the concept back of the Sims 3 Store with a bit of a twist. Instead of all different kinds of new content to purchase either individually or as a set (though those would be welcomed too) it would be nice to have the ability to get say... just the worlds themselves or items or sets that are offered in these packs, so those who either cannot afford the whole pack or the pack itself is not desired in their games can still benefit from them.