Sims 4 Kits vs Sims 3 Store: Which one did it better and why?

I dislike ts3 store with burning passion because not only was everything overpriced with the weird simpoints nonsense I also couldn't buy any of it because of the payment methods

all in all it was big annoyance to me during ts3

especially after they started cluttering the game with million ads for stuff I literally can't get

so in that sense I already prefer ts4 origin kits cause i can at least get them if i want to as long as origin giftcards are a thing

but even so I am not entirely convinced kits have to exist like there hasn't been a kit thats like

"Ah yes I totally see why this could not be put into any existing or upcoming pack and needs to be separate kit"

or

" omg i literally cannot have my sims live without this"

like idk i wouldn't say i dislike ts4 kits for now i am just mostly meh about them

especially after stuff packs just started to feel like actual addition to the game and it just feels like they went " ah can't keep doing that"

= for now its just
ts3 store =make me angry poop
ts4 kits = *bored moodlet*

take from that what you will i guess :sweat_smile:

Both are microtransactions.
Microtransactions have been slowly ruining gaming for around 15 years now.
Neither should have ever existed because it doesn't cost that much to make such small amounts of content.
Imagine if you had to pay for every chair, hairstyle and lamp in a game like Skyrim.
Just ridiculous money-grubbing nonsense and stuff that should have been included in the base game and expansion packs.
Gamers should come before stockholders.
And this is coming from someone who owns the entire Sims 3 store.
My two cents.

Kits in Sims 4 is better because the Sims 3 Store never downloaded properly after purchase.

The Sims 3 store was expensive, but it had awesome things. Theme park items, world's, Casinos, arcades, you could pretty much build anything. Sims 4 kits cannot compare.

The store...I still purchase from it! I don't play TS4...

The store was - and continues to be - way too expensive. I don't have any fondness for kits either.

I guess I like the kits better for the simple reason that I am not so tempted by them that I would buy them for only one or two items they come with. I bought a lot more from the store in 3 cause you could buy individual items, and it ate my wallet alive.

I bought almost everything from the Sims 3 store but now it won't load because EA and I had password and name/email changes hiccups during the time (Origin)? and now doesn't recognise that I have bought anything from it and I had to download it all every time I played. I gave up.
Don't tell me to use Answers as they don't understand either, even on Chats.

Around those early internet times, internet providers had simple email addresses etc. as well as EA I believe and several of them plus my provider got pwned. (qv) and they had to up their game with stronger ones and passwords. We must have been more trusting in those times!

At least in The Sims 3 store you could buy items individually.
If there was just a sofa in a whole set I liked, I could just get the sofa.

Points surplus is a problem though but at least for now they don’t expire. It’ll be a pain when you have to spend them all!

This is why I think the store works better over kits.

I remember buying a few things from The Sims 3 Store back in the day and liked the fact that I had the freedom to buy just the items I wanted and there are times when I wish we could do that with some of The Sims 4 items. However, I'm not totally against kits and have purchased a few of them but on a whole I tend to use CC for clothing and hairstyles so the two most recent kits aren't ones I'd ever see myself bothering with unless they were really cheap.