Who even buys this shit? You can literally go tumblr and download clothes and furniture for your sims for free. Hell, you can download whole Game packs made by fans. Don't tell me that there are actually people dumb enough to buy Stuff packs.
Despite downloading CC and mods frequently, I am one of the degenerates buying this shit. Not justifying the purchases in the slightest - I'd sooner tell someone to get into CC than buy the majority of Sims 4's DLC (rules for thee, not for me; do as I say, not as I do, etc.) - but if I've got the money to splurge on a game and nothing new has caught my eye, I'll grab some Sims crap.
On user created content: The biggest issue with custom content (which makes up the bulk of the cosmetic items) is how frequently shit can break on a whim, particularly with furniture. Depending on the mod, things can get more volatile and when you're got 50 different mods adding flavor to the stale sack of shit Sims 4 is, it gets very tiresome very quickly having to keep it with it all.
With EA refusing to properly work with the modding community, you have issues like smaller/not as popular mods being inactive or out of date until they get around to sorting it out (or someone else fixes it), and smaller things like the recent hair palette update not working on older CC unless creators themselves go back and edit it.
I would tell people to get CC/mods sooner than buying anything, absolutely, but unless you keep a manageable amount and compromise on content for the sake of sanity when an update pops around and you need to visit over 50 different creators to check on what could be causing the issues along with potentially going through each individual file to scrape out the problem, a lot of people just prefer buying shit and leaving staying vanilla.
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So there will be a Game Pack, Two new kits, some new foods, and some other stuff of little relevance. EA is trying to drip feed content into a game that will turn 8 years old this year, at an even smaller and slower pace.
As an active poster in the Overwatch thread, this is my obligatory "and that still more than than the Overwatch player base has received in over three years."
