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Re: [FAQ] Sims 4 Buy a Bundle: Windows and macOS

The Sims 4 High School Years was released on July 28th, 2022. Including today, that is 194 days / 6 months, 1 week, 3 days ago

The Sims 4 Werewolves was released on June 16th, 2022. Including today, that is 236 days / 7 months, 3 weeks, 1 day ago.

According to the F.A.Q. for Build-a-Bundle written by someone else on this site, The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories is ALSO not available, which was released on February 23rd, 2022. Including today, that is 349 days11 months, 2 weeks, 1 day ago. I own this pack so it wouldn't show for me anyways. 

Historically speaking, it didn't take longer than 1-3 months for packs to be available in the store's Build-a-Bundle feature. The sheer laziness on EA's part is depressing for those of us who are smart enough to realize that the Build-a-Bundle feature is the most cost effective way to buy the Sims franchise, as buying each one of the three required types of packs without a sale is $70 before tax, and even during your best sales, the most recently released packs (even if there are newer ones or are about to be newer ones or its been nearly a year) never get the same awesome discount the other packs get, and usually costs $10-$15 more than just using the Build-a-Bundle feature.

Not only that, but you refuse to give us updates. From all the research I've tried to do, you won't even seem to answer the question on whether or not we will ever get them in the Build-a-Bundle feature. You have given us a rather unfished game, and even if EA didn't make it themselves, they still allowed such an incomplete game to be sold, with expansion, game & stuck packs that are priced higher than they should. Plus kits. You can't even get kits in the bundles. So there's $95 for those, especially considering I've never seen the kits on sale. So my question which is more of a generalized statement is thusly; 

Either update the Build-a-Bundle feature that YOU gave to us to help grow our Sim collection, or remove it.

There is no logical reason we'd had to wait this long. None. There are no discs being sold. Packaging does not have to be made to sell these. And if the My Wedding Stories pack has STILL not been added, then the only LOGICAL explanation is that you DON'T plan to add them, at any point ever, to the Build-a-Bundle feature. If that's the case, just remove it.

And I also don't want to hear about "oh well not many use it" it that's the case you would have removed it from the EA/Origin store a long time ago, back when it wasn't earning you any money. But considering the threads I've seen, even about PAST bundles since added, they are OBVIOUSLY a popular feature. 

This is not said in malice, nor hatred, but rather just a simple: I'm tired of this. And by the look of some other threads, so are the rest of us.

3 Replies

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @Kabuki_Empress

    Curious, is anything stopping you from buying the packs you are after separately? Are they not available to buy individually? I know some people have had problems purchasing packs so wondered if you’re also experiencing issues with Origin/EA App.
  • Kabuki_Empress's avatar
    Kabuki_Empress
    3 years ago

    to quote the person literally above you, z2crcq5xu4cc , "thanks.... i didnt miss the sale, its just not as good of a deal as building the bundle with packs im missing". 


    And to quote myself, "Historically speaking, it didn't take longer than 1-3 months for packs to be available in the store's Build-a-Bundle feature. The sheer laziness on EA's part is depressing for those of us who are smart enough to realize that the Build-a-Bundle feature is the most cost effective way to buy the Sims franchise, as buying each one of the three required types of packs without a sale is $70 before tax, and even during your best sales, the most recently released packs (even if there are newer ones or are about to be newer ones or its been nearly a year) never get the same awesome discount the other packs get, and usually costs $10-$15 more than just using the Build-a-Bundle feature."

    So, to answer your question, even with a sale it's almost always $10-15 cheaper than buying the packs individually. Some of us want to save money with how much they charge for all of this digital content that doesn't even require them making, printing a DVD or case to be shipped and sold around the world. My issues are not with the EA App. My issues are with the people in charge of EA or more specifically, The Sims 4 and it's Build-a-Bundle feature.