@bookwormbeauty
I've grown to hate social media. It's too anti-social :lol: . I only recently joined Reddit and Quora and that was just out of boredom one day. They can be interesting at times and I figured that people had answered a ton of questions for me already over the years on those sites, so maybe I could give back a little. I joined Facebook back in 2012 after promising myself I never would. It seemed great at first - all my old friends were there and we were friending each other and then, well, that was it. No one actually wanted to reconnect. They just wanted to collect friends and likes or something. So now I have my ~100 Fakebook "friends" who ignore my private messages and then wish me a happy birthday or ask me to like certain pages. I refuse to post publicly anymore, but I do wish a few people happy birthday's each year. Hurray! :smiley:
And I'm just
way too wordy for Twitter so I've never bothered.
They do have sales on The Store. It's a pretty complicated system (they're called "Daily Deals"), but it's how I came to own it all without spending thousand$$$. I actually posted about it a little in this thread a long time ago, here:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17435918/#Comment_17435918
I take no credit for all the awesomely amazing work the creators of the threads I linked to did in order to help everyone. They deserve so much credit for figuring that all out. The amount of work it must have taken to do all of that is mind-boggling.
Some of the Cascades are truly awesome. Especially the "Animals Abound" one. A person can get quite a bit of content without too much SimPoint investment if they're patient and play their cards right.
EA used to have massive sales on TS3 expansions. They were regularly discounted to $5 per pack. I started playing again in 2017 after about 4 years and just happened to find them all (I owned everything up to Generations on disc) on sale on Amazon right when I got this PC. I went hog wild and bought almost all of them. Then bought the rest a few months later when I realized it was a sale (I really thought they were just $5 because the game was so old...silly me).
The last sale I saw was March of this year. Packs were $10 a piece. So I guess they still happen, but not very often it would seem :( (though I don't check often either). I think EA realized that people were loving their old game too much and they really want to push their "new" (Sims 4 is 7 years old, which is past retirement age in video game world) game onto everyone.
My advice to anyone wanting to complete their collection is to check eBay. I just did and there's a brand new sealed copy of Pets (Limited Edition) for about $8:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/384480299031?epid=111174838&hash=item5984cfc817:g:spMAAOSwuTldn0UW
Not too shabby. The Limited Edition items are irredeemable (codes have expired), but with Pets people should get the Pet Shop because it comes with every version (one EA glitch in our favor :smile: ). I was
stoked when I saw that item in my Purchase History after redeeming the code from Amazon!
Here's Seasons for a little bit more:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143732884245?epid=24045282190&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item217725c315:g:AscAAOSwK2VfYPn0&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACoPYe5NmHp%252B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsS9d9gBrkNbRQtRn8MVXnYktt%252BSRSjy6IgiRM%252FSTnhxS45ypew1MvP0XWIekeV0eKHJ15trzR%252BHBEiH%252FxFbXBkonYxcNDPjrmEAu5n4JhAzTXOcmk6LOSroh%252B47YaOG3fYnM%252FisLqio%252BCHqrZ9%252Byd06ADYBBUHZEj6kgvAb2sK0ol3SQBMW9SeAXhuJp7buAs3LHJVGPjyOZeJtJprbuR0elTaj1VOcBHexc7ceYMiyK7Ld2ssX2Y%252Fi%252BPuKRepKE0UWQXy0rf25oOBKQ3bd2OZk1K0CHGei3MgUqE1jispC3McnraICMIc%252BL4M%252FRMpyHxgvgYthvEnd3ClQBmbmKw5CeSkgMzRcbawWgGjEsOQ0DNhoHJauGdGjnlrXq1xnuTInKvuTBQ%252FHKZib0K8duKcfi9PnIRqLIKUdQIGCPgv3pYMSFhsNwGiuFcotPWO674P8Xhm9OEg20wwsZY6tDqY9ab%252Bgj0f0vOUzIpsuQB0JAliDOXWu795rRYEf1IwBm6xzzut8%252BXjAvZiInWXKLkSjEH67DpMu0kh1OrCE3fvmXCUbri8aAmScF%252B7pf%252F%252BoKK5%252FltkeC4QfeL8a%252B96fLetNZB2CcmaFSzt0Mtc6ghMMtdNkIOjqOqnHQ4LZ2EJow3cw3FpvN0ew%252B%252FQOdKxRbKZxrl2dYKzH1lBaL3Pp5ht20aGzaC1itMGzJC%252ByDhi3m3NUzXX5b795dm2WD2S6dK2vlsmaCJBHwFNKdrtLqjJKVv65Rpx%252F57Wf691cN3dLm%252FDurHhHFIXvQemPOkEAGHzAeoM1pcVxL3FCfvVQJSPuab74AJFFcnu%252B40EHGzOMJmAP6XaVsKtttMNgzm9AG26bw%253D%253D%7Cclp%3A2334524%7Ctkp%3ABFBMpuft_qJf
Ambitions is probably my favorite pack (or at least way up there), but some of that might just be nostalgia. The cheapest I saw it just now was like $16.50 though, which isn't quite as good a deal as those two. Now that I think of it, I'm not even sure why I posted the links, considering anyone can just search "Sims 3 " and keep checking until they find it cheap. Oh well, not gonna bother deleting what I already copy/pasted. :smiley:
Same with Sims 4 if people are interested. Most Expansions can be found for around $10 or so a lot of the time.
Just make sure it says "Brand new" and "Sealed." That way you know the code hasn't been redeemed!Wow. I kinda went off topic there. Hopefully I shared something useful/worthwhile though! :smiley:
Maybe in my next reply I'll actually get to your Wishlist :smile:
Hope you're doing well!
@pinkrobin
Thanks! :smile:
I almost tried to fix it the other night, but my days go by pretty quick and I'm sadly a TV junkie. Being injured doesn't help. Even if I got it working right, it'd just be a tease :lol: .
It sounds like our timelines are similar when it comes to The Sims 3! I started right after it came out, played pretty regularly for a long time, then quit circa 2013 due to my life becoming completely untenable. Then I bought a new PC in 2017 and realized I didn't own any PC games, so I installed the Sims 3 on a whim and because it was all I had. I lost my mind at how awesome it was in 1080p with all the expansions and everything! Then I lost my mind again because nearly every Sim I'd ever made was actually horrifyingly ugly and I realized I had to start all over.
I just checked and I have 535 hours in Origin, so you've got me beat by a little bit. I think that means I probably have somewhere upward of 1,000 hours in the game total. I wish I had a way to know for sure. What's kinda sad though is that most of those Origin hours have just been me learning to mod, becoming addicted to sliders and generally being a CAS addict.
Here's my favorite Sim I've created so far. Her name's Vale and, when I finally get to play again, it'll be with her and her younger sister Star. I can't even guess as to how many hours it took me to create the two of them (and I think they're finally as done as they can ever be). Probably at least 200 if you count finding all the CC, learning sliders and all that. Anyway, here she is:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51267563793_7c6bac480d_c.jpgVale by
Symb10sis, on Flickr
Sunlit Tides is a beautiful world. That's where that screenshot was taken (the lighting is wonderful for Sim creation). I'm sorry to say this right after saying that, but yeah, that's a bit pricey for me to Gift, sorry. It does go on Daily Deal rotation (see the first link I posted to Bookwormbeauty about how to own the Store) and can be had for cheaper at times, but those prices don't count for Gifting unfortunately. Maybe something to keep in mind though if you ever have Points of your own. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I don't want to get your hopes too high up in case it doesn't happen, but the oven may be entirely possible! I love cooking/recipes in the game too! :smile: I almost always play with aging off, so nearly every Sim I play with ends up a level 10 chef :wink:
I used to be really shy when I was younger (to the point of social anxiety), so I know where you're coming from. I thankfully mostly outgrew that, but some of that's just the level of social isolation I live with - I get too excited when I see people to be nervous anymore :smile: . I generally only see other human beings a couple times a week at most and that's usually in a time-limited professional capacity (physical therapist, actual therapist, etc...).
I'm sorry to hear about your hormone disorder, but I'm glad you've found ways to cope :smile: . That's what The Sims 3 does for me as well - it lets me go outside, walk around as much as I want, drive (sorta), take in the sights and basically
live in a way my actual life won't let me. That's when I actually stop OCDing on my Sims though...
I hope you had a great weekend! :smile:
@Palgoons
Hi! :smile:
Welcome to my ancient but recently resurrected thread!
Thanks for posting your Wishlist! How long have you been playing?
I'm not making any promises yet, but I'll see what I can do :wink:
Thanks for the nice comment as well :smiley:
Hope you're having a great day!
