New Pack Falsely Advertised as Free

"Calico45;c-17937256" wrote:
Actually, worse yet, a kid's purchase. Sometimes parents hand over card info more easily than they should and may not pay attention beyond the "free" page until they see the charge later. 100% carelessness, but hey, why would the store page be wrong even if they know nothing about the Sims? Maybe it is a promotion like the free base game. They may really not know.

My parents gave up keeping track of a lot of my games well before the digital video game age cemented and there weren't bugged store pages.

This is a big mistake, and they need to fix it asap.

That being said, what you're describing is really irresponsible. We game, as a family, together and separately, but I would never ever in a million years give the kids our credit card information, even the oldest, and even though they are very responsible compared to many of their peers. We either directly purchase for them, if it's something truly special (like whenever the next single player TES arrives!), or they get gift cards for birthdays and holidays, and then manage their own purchases accordingly. But you should never be giving a child unsupervised access to your credit or debit cards. Too many things can go wrong, and accidentally paying full price for a Sims expansion is the least of it. I'm not saying this to be snarky or unkind, but as a PSA: people have had serious problems as a result giving kids access to their finances, for games or otherwise.