I wasn't active in the forums when I was playing TS3 but I was NOT a fan of the store. I felt it was a shameless money grab and I tried not to buy much in there. The prices were shocking!
When TS4 came out, one of the things that I appreciated was that there wasn't going to be a store, after rumours about it and early screenshots I was afraid they'd do it again. But they didn't, and I thought that was a good thing. I embraced their new system and I loved the concept of Game Packs from the get go.
But...then the first EP came out and I was shocked at the low standards of it. All of the EPs in this iteration feel short and shallow, however, when cutting things from them and making stuff packs out of it, it never felt as obvious and outrageous as this My First Pet Stuff is.
This is their bold move, and I really hope it doesn't pay off or it'll become the norm.
