(PC) Best of Business

Yesterday was the release of The Sims 2 Best of Business Collection, a combination pack consisting of The Sims 2 Open for Business Expansion Pack, The Sims 2 H&M® Fashion Stuff, and The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff.  Problem was…there was no official announcement nor any listing for the game anywhere except for GameStop.

I was a bit weary of posting about it until I had some way to confirm it was actually released.  I went ahead and ordered it last night from the company (because I’m a collector and have to have everything EA/Maxis related :P).  No shipping confirmation as of yet which had me worried…until I read an announcement from TheSims2 on Twitter stating it really is released and can now be obtained from the EA Store.

Look for it in various retail stores this week!

I wish instead of releasing all of these smaller collection packs they’d put all 17 discs onto a dual layer dvd (the filesize for all of the expansions and packs amount to 14.1GB) as installing 1 DVD would be a lot less hassle than 17… Either way, we probably won’t see it until EA releases smaller packs (remember the Deluxe and Mega collections for TS1?).  SimTimes found the official details for the next Sims 2 Compilation, called ‘The Sims 2 Best of Business’.

The collection will contain The Sims 2 Open for Business expansion pack, The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff as well as The Sims 2 Kitchen and Bath Stuff Pack.  The pricing will be set at $20 again, with a rough estimated release date (according to Dutch site MuizenShop) of October 16, 2009.