User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Death of a Franchise/@comment-1692461-20120516030313

I really have been able to tell just from the first time I played The Sims 3 that the quality of the game was much worse than The Sims 2 (The Sims original as well, but I've never played it). However, I had hope that the EPs would improve upon the quality of the game. Which a few did, however, others didn't. To me they were just EA copying popular TS2 games, which is actually a pretty good idea, but failing with them.

I used to say that all I wanted was Seasons and I'd be happy, however I can't say that anymore. I really am disappointed with TS3. It had so much potential before and when it first came out, and although my initial disappointment I was really looking forward to seeing the product expand and become better with each EP and SP. However, I feel as if the opposite happened. I have almost no interest in the product anymore based off of the lack of quality from the new games, and not even Seasons could redeem that. Especially since I have no doubt that the Sims 3 adaptation of Seasons would probably end up bad.

Also, one thing I noticed after coming back to the games and updating them was that in CAS (and possibly buy mode, can't remember) they have advertisements for products to buy with your SimPoints. I think that that is an okay idea, I guess... but I don't see the point of having them visible to offline users, and that I don't believe you can get rid of them (however I'm unsure of that).