"cactusjuice;c-16431096" wrote:
Ok are they doing it to be different from the other series or doing it cheaply to make money - you seem to bounce your arguments back and forth between these two reasons
Mainly to be different from the other series because EA doesn’t believe in high sales numbers just for repetitions and almost surely also because EA still wants TS3 to sell as well as possible too (mainly to new simmers who don’t already have TS3).
But like all game companies EA of course just want to make money. This means that EA wants to avoid unneccesary expenses by adding things to the packs which wouldn’t really have any effect on the sales numbers anyway. Adding small pets to a pack called Cats&Dogs was just an example of such unneccesary expenses because simmers don’t buy an EP with that name to get small pets too. In the same way you can find hundreds of examples of omitted things from the packs which EA omitted for the same reason. Even the simplified babies, the omitted toddlers and the tall simplified teens are examples because they didn’t seem very important to EA in a Sims game which mainly was about happy partying and autonomous multitasking for adult sims.
