Bright Young Things

Okay there were a lot of birthdays happening in the extended family. Deb aged up first and then from there Ash, Gabriela, their twins Mick and Jenna and their eldest Ashlyn. Then the Ahmad and Aliya aged up as well as their dad Kaz. Kaz is having a midlife crisis...



Ashlyn aged up and since she had good grades I got to pick her trait. (It should be noted that I wasn't playing her through her childhood and SP was at work, I just happened to switch households in time.) I chose Irresistible to pair up with her Diva trait.



Maybe it's because of his name, but I think Mick is going to be a little heartbreaker. Before I made him over he had long hair and decided to keep to that while making him over.



Jenna looks more like Gabby. Ash has been spending a lot of time with her.



While I was playing the Beaumontes, I finally got a notice that Ahmad had aged up. Yes since everytime I tried to do it, it never worked out. I switched over to the Nasris. Aliya was having her birthday when I returned.





Ahmad and Aliya look very similar despite being fraternal.

So that's what has happened in SV so far.

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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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