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Richard Haseltine

In order for buying the bundle to mark the individual products as purchased they do need to be grouped like that. Soem people certainyl seem to consider the option to buy parts a good thing - I've used it once or twice since they started doing this - but yes, it does have a potential downside in product-based views.

ioonrxoon

I still can't fathom this decision. Why in the world did they have to take the bundle route instead of keeping the complete outfits, as they were before, and simply add the option to buy separates as well makes zero sense to me.

There is no point whatsoever for bundles to exist other than to clutter everything.

Richard Haseltine

Bundles save money if you want all, or most, of the parts.

frank0314

ioonrxoon said:

I still can't fathom this decision. Why in the world did they have to take the bundle route instead of keeping the complete outfits, as they were before, and simply add the option to buy separates as well makes zero sense to me.

There is no point whatsoever for bundles to exist other than to clutter everything.

Bundles have been a thing for 20 years now. Some people that want to buy all of the products want to save money and want it all together for 1 price rather than paying the higher price to buy everything individually. There is a lot of use for bundles and I'm sure most would agree which is why they are done.

ioonrxoon

It's one thing to have a group of items, often done by different PAs, sold together in a bundle, and a completely different thing to break an item in bits and pieces to present it as a "bundle".

Let's take a random expample with 4 pieces.

You have the main item (the "bundle").
Item #1
Item #2
Item #3
Item #4

This is what will be listed in store.

Now, when you buy the bundle, you get items #1-4 and sometimes unlisted item #5, which is a preset to load all (something folks who buy items #1-4 separately won't get). Many of the zips will also be a waste of space, with plenty of duplicate textures as the separate parts will often share the same textures.

So, when you but the bundle, instead of this pointless mess, they could have simply left the complete item as a whole, just like you would get if you bought an outfit that didn't go through the splitting procedure. One zip file with everything included.
You can still sell the separate parts as well, you don't have to make a faux bundle out of it that serves absolutely no purpose.

The only thing I can think of that would make this useful is if the ability to buy bundles for the price of the items you don't own was available more than twice a year.

rcourtri_789f4b1c6b

I'm inclined to agree with the OP that having Smart Content icons for both the bundled outfit and the individual components is redundant. Searching by name/keyword has produced both the outfit they were looking for plus the six individual components (plus four other "rebel" items).   To me, that's six icons too many in the search results.  If I've bought the whole outfit as a bundle, it should show up in Smart Content the way regular outfits do.

I've mixed feelings about the return of outfits sold as separate compenents--Not infrequent back in the pre-Genesis days.  If I only want one or two pieces, buying them as standalone items makes sense.  It may save money, and there's no devoting storage/memory for unwanted items. But if you've bought the whole outfit, redundancies with Install Manager, Content Library, and Smart Content are minor, but genuine, annoyances.