"Cinebar;c-16419622" wrote:
No one raised a 'stink' because Store Content in TS3 are extras and not stuff packs. It's like buying custom content, that is the essence of the TS3 store. And the DLC for DLC stuff pack requires I have an EP if I want to use all the content in it. If I don't have C&D then I don't get any benefit out of a new pet bowl recolor and pet clothes. For the first time ever, I needed an EP to get full benefit out of a stuff pack. That is the difference. TS3's store was like buying all the custom content I could find but paying EA instead of TSR paysite. Paysites must die. I will never pay for CC. However, I was willing to fork out a few dollars (not many) for content from the TS3 store. I will not pay for DLC for DLC which requires I have an EP or other pack to be able to use all the content in the DLC.
That is it all in an nutshell and it was done that way strategically to get some people to buy that EP because the SP has inflated value being if you do not have the EP you do not have access to all items in the SP and to gain access to the extra items you have to buy the EP. However, you can't take EA/Maxis methods at face value you have look between the lines in a way it is like modified loot boxes Some can argue about the Store method but as you said the Store was an side business, a business that did not require you to buy an EP or SP to use items from the store.
