Bright Young Things

I watched this because I was bored waiting for the game to load, but he actually hits upon something that I've become increasingly aware of with the Sims franchise.

Back in 2007 maybe, a Sim credit card came out. I clearly remember that even then I was iffy with that.

With the current generation of the Sims, this feeling I'm having grows deeper.

Look we're in America and I know capitalism rules our land. But this whole thing is bothering me.

I don't mind paying for expansion packs, in my opinion they are worth it what with added gameplay and extras added throughout the game.

Sometimes I don't mind the stuff packs, I like stuff.

But there is something about the Sim 3 store that's rubbing me the wrong way even though I buy stuff from it.

Like stuff that could be in EPs or SPs are sold there. New world with the occasional returning Sims are there. Like Mary Sue and Daniel Pleasant come with Sunlit Tides. I really fucking like the Pleasants and I bought that world. I haven't played it yet, but besides some of the premium stuff, the Sims themselves are one of my motivating factors for buying a world.

And then there's the frequency that the EPs are coming out. There are going to be 3 EPs coming out this year at $40 new. Now...like I said I like EPs, but some of them could have easily been combined like Island Paradise and World Adventures could have easily been one EP as well as Late Night and Showtime. It's like they are splitting up the content and charging twice for it. Idk that just seems so fucking...low to me.

I don't know why I'm thinking so hard about this. Money makes the world turn doesn't it? We shall see how I deal with EA in the future.

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Day 14: A moment that breaks your heart

I'm pretty much going to go with the twins are delivered to their separate homes. I don't know I just keeping thinking of what could have happened if Anakin had cooled his shit. They would have been a happy family. Maybe Anakin would have had to give up his career as well as Padme. But the family would still be together, you know? But of course, it couldn't go down like that.

Day 12: In what story did you feel you did the best job of world→­build­ing?

I guess I'd say TMC. I mean I've got certain histories and rulers and the Church mapped out. It's the one I spend the most time on because I guess you could say it allows my creativity to run free as well as my imagination haha.

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