Unfortunate because many feel most of the goodies should be in the EP's and not just separate SP's that usually are fairly skimpy but cost as much, or almost? I really don't remember how it went with Sims2 but my kiddo says we have tons of EP's and none of the SP's except the one that came as a bonus with the base game.
I guess it kind of bugs me a bit. It's rather like the "free to play" mmorpg's you can play online. While they say "free", and indeed you CAN sort of play them free, to get the most out of them you are almost forced to buy items from their store. Now in this case I can see why. If they are going to put up a game anyone can play free, they need to support themselves somehow so the way to do that is with their store. So while I don't like it, I do understand it, and I do support the game by buying from the store. But in the case of the mmorpg, you don't shell out some fair sized dollars to buy the base game and then have to continue to shell out for expansions and what not.
I can even understand buying EP's. You have to pay folks' salary after all, and if we want the fun of playing an awesome game it's going to cost. SP's are borderline in my brain at the moment, but the store items, while I DO buy there, kind of is a bit gritchy to me. I'm basically still trying to justify it in my head. Not a complaint, nor a slam at EA, just a thought I'm working on.
