User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The fall of The Sims series/@comment-2039751-20130308002510

As someone who has a very limited source of money, I don't like the fact that I have to pay for the same game over and over again. (I.E., some expansions being the same price as the base game, if not even more expensive than the base game). That and the game does tend to lag a lot and causes my computer to spaz from the amount of CPU it takes up.

And honestly, there were quite a few expansions that were redundant, you're right. For instace the Katy Perry pack. Money grab. Then there's things like the Weather system from Seasons. That's something that I feel should have been in the base game to begin with, which is one of many issues with the series is that that fail to really progress the game at first, then turn around and charge you for the game several times over for more content. There's also the Showtime expansion which was pretty much leftover things that should have been in the Late Night expansion. Again, pointless.

Another thing, which is pretty minir actually, is that I had originally had my Sims game on Steam. The problem was, was that I wanted to pre-order University Life, but I could only do that through Origin. So I had to spend the next day moving all my Sims stuff from Steam to Origin just to pre-order it, because for whatever reason you can't pre-order EA's stuff on Steam. Not sure if that's EA's fault or Valve's, but still. Anyway, I do agree that the series is going downhill from here.