User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims Wiki News - 6th March 2014/@comment-5850877-20140309022450/@comment-7040864-20140311025446

EA would save that up for EP, for more greenbags. Even if pets and weather were in the base game, you have to pay the price of a base game and 2 EP's together! That would be around $200 in NZ money. $150 in the US.