"drake_mccarty;c-16407134" wrote:
"keekee53;c-16407001" wrote:
"GemSixx;c-16406970" wrote:
> @keekee53 said:
> You can say they never gave us an expansion and then sold us essential stuff later but it is subjective. I feel like the toddler items that came with Aurora Skies were essential and should have been in the Generations expansion. If I am not mistaken, we didn't even get a world with Generations so that pack did not feel complete by no means to me. Why sell me a world that really had nothing to do with toddlers and add in essential toddler premium content?
As long as you had a little patience, you didn't have to buy the world to get the toddler walker or playpen. The walker is on the sale page of the store right now for 365 points. I know before they stopped rotating the sale page that the playpen had been on there too. I had those things long before I finally got Aurora Skies. Not to mention if you paid attention and spent a bit of time in the store, you could get A LOT of stuff free from complete-a-set combined with daily deal or weekly sale.
All you need is patience
Just a little patience
I agree but the same could be said about sims 4. Lately, I waited for everything to be on sale for 50% off. Jungle Adventure was the first time in a long time I paid full price for a Sims 4 game.
If you compare Day 1 items from Sims 3 store to Day 1 items of Sims 4, I still say I am making out better financially in Sims 4. At least for the items that are essential to my gameplay. I will admit I would not spend my time sitting on the Sims 3 store checking daily deals and weekly sales. When I did see daily deals, either I had it or didn't want it. Ninety percent of the time it was something terrible.
I also still believe selling the toddler items with a world when it could have been released with generations especially since generations did not come with a world is just as bad as cats and dogs with my first pet stuff. Both situations were terrible on EA's part, in my opinion of course.
Generations was released in 2011, and the store set you claim should have been included wasn’t released until 2013. Compared to C&D which released barely 4 months before MFPS, the latter of which has a direct link (requirement) for the former to access all content. Can you say the same about TS3? So no it’s not “just as bad”, or even comparably “bad” at all.
The store was literally a side venture for EA on top of a full production schedule of Expansion and Stuff packs. Sims 4 didn’t have Day 1 DLC (and there’s a reason for that), and yearly has less content released for it so yeah obviously you are going to be saving money, but at the same time getting less even excluding purchasing store content.
In my opinion, I see it as the same situation. I don't care it if it was three years later. Generations did not have a world so I felt like it was incomplete. The toddler stuff being sold with Aurora Skies should have been patched in. Even if it was a side venture, there were items you could not get unless you purchased it from the store like the sauna and the toddler stuff. The post was asking about concern about items being sold to us broken up and I said I didn't really mind because we went through this in Sims 3. Whether you want to admit it or not Sims 3 sold us items broken up. Everyone always says "oh the sims 3 store was great because we could pick and choose what we want." That sounds broken up to me. These items were not sold in the expansion pack or stuff pack. While they not have been essential to you and your gameplay, they were to mine and I had to shell out money to get it on top of expansions and stuff packs and sometimes be forced to buy a whole world that I did not want.
It is easy to find excuses for Sims 3 because people were happy with the game. I remember even buying the greenhouse and it was snowing inside. Oh, another item that should have been given to us in the SEASONS expansion pack instead of broken out into a store set.
I am not saying Sims 4 is a better game than Sims 3 or even on the same level. I am saying is Sims 3 was just as bad as Sims 4 with selling content broken up.
