After owning Cats & Dogs for two months without ever actually playing with a pet for some reason, I finally added a cat to one of my existing households. Now that cat is just... there. She spends most of her time in the kitchen jumping from counter to counter, is afraid of the chimney and likes to sit on the roomba, but if she didn't require food and didn't get sick every other day, I wouldn't even notice her existence. She never does anything interesting, doesn't scratch the furniture, doesn't interact with her owners at all unless they interact with her, I can't control her, she sometimes pees on the floor, but I can't even scold her for it. As I said, she's just there.
Now we get new animals that are even less interesting... Small pets were already nothing but interactive animated objects in TS2, so I wasn't really upset when it became clear that Cats & Dogs wouldn't feature them. But now we get to pay extra for them, even though they're still just interactive animated objects. I mean, really? They just released a very elaborate GP that is, in my opinion, the best one so far, and now they follow it up with this?
And before anyone tells me I don't have to buy it if I don't like it: I know, and I'm not planning on buying it (although I'd love that aquarium table, my cousin has one just like that, and it would be cool if her simself had it too, but oh well). But it annoys me anyway because I know others will buy it and thereby support EA's "quantity over quality" mentality. If there were more small animals, and you could do stuff with them that you never could before, then it would be okay, I guess. But at the moment it seems like it's just objects and pet clothes that really should have come with Cats & Dogs.
So no, sorry OP, I can't give you a valid reason to buy it. I'm trying to be open-minded myself, but... yeah. I think I'm just going to repeat myself if I don't stop here.
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