I have no issue with EA frankenmeshing their own stuff- if the end result is a legitimate new piece of clothing, who cares? Most of these pieces- the pants excluded- are clearly different pieces, whether they're made of older ones or not. When it comes to game dev that kind of thing is efficient and in theory means more content can be made in general.
But for a kit made by a third party, with a limited number of items regardless of how the content is made (there'd be X amount of pieces in this kit if they were all brand new or all frankenmeshed), it's not cool. I really do think they need to address if this was done with consent or encouragement by EA, or if this is something they just *did* and nobody noticed or questioned.
As it stands, it really looks like they paid a creator to reuse content that creator didn't make, that came from various paid content packs. And that's a different thing versus EA doing it themselves, repurposing their own stuff, and knocking out more items as a result. It's sketchy and it's strange in this context. It's embarrassing IMO. I cannot imagine being paid and contracted to work officially on the game and...making several pieces out of content I didn't make and down have ownership over. Really embarrassing stuff.
Apparently someone mentioned about what goes into the creator packs and EA allowed them to reuse assets so they definitely allowed it and know about it, but to such an extent where there's such low effort?
Was already a bit weary since Aharris religiously frankenmesh items, but didn't think it'd be completely incorporated through and through with such an official pack. Fine as CC that's eventually available to someone but for a CAS focused pack with recycled assets is just so bad...
