Unpopular opinion ahead...I LOVED the store, but then again I'm not SUPER outraged about this upcoming pack.
I spent a lot of time in the Gift Gathering & Giving section back in the TS3 days. That's what I loved about the store, you could gift almost anything to anyone as long as they had a TS3 ID. I was lucky enough to be gifted a lot of the store and I paid it forward by in turn gifting a lot of other people, holding contests, etc. I think the store was great for that. At the moment, there's no function like that for TS4 and I miss that.
On this pack, like I said, I'm not completely outraged; HOWEVER, I don't think the timing of it is good nor do I think the whole tying it to C&D plus putting in small pets (4 re-skinned rodents) is a good idea. If they had wanted to sell a Stuff Pack of just C&D stuff; that's fine with me, but to add small pets in there, too, from a fan point of view, isn't ok. SO essentially, people that wish to buy this pack will be paying $10 for the hamster portion of it, not being able to use the cats & dogs stuff because they didn't want to them in their games OR they'll be paying $50 for both. Had this pack come out as a game pack with more small pets, I don't think we'd be seeing the outrage we are now.
To my knowledge, and correct me if I'm wrong, I can't recall a store set that required a specific EP (i.e. C&D) AND offered something new (i.e. small pets) at the same time. Using the OPs example with the Pet Set, you needed to Pets to use it. Well, if you didn't have Pets, why would you buy a pet set at the store?
