How long have you been playing Sims3?

Since 2005 or 2006, when I was introduced to The Sims by my cousin. I only started playing The Sims 3 in August 2017 when I got a laptop for my birthday. Playing The Sims 3 and owning my own cat have helped me through my bouts of depression

not long a few months.

I got Sims 3 a day or two before the release date because I pre-ordered it. so I've played the game since it came out. But in the first year I played Sims 2 more while I slowly got used to Sims 3. And it got more and more fun with the expansions. :smile:

Since before The Sims was its own spinoff of SimCity. I didn't play SimCity, though. My older brother did. I played SimTown (a spinoff that was easier for child-me to understand) and SimTower. I found out about The Sims 1 and got the base game and maybe a few expansions. I got The Sims 2 when it came out and got more expansions with it, but still not all. My computer at that time couldn't handle all of them for either version.

It's only been relatively recently that I discovered I have a computer that can now run The Sims Complete Collection, The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (that Origin gave away a while back) and The Sims 3 with every expansion and stuff pack (save for Sweet Treats since it's no longer being sold by Origin or Steam).

It could run Sims 4 up to whichever expansion it was that switched to not supporting 32 bit or whatever it was, but I don't have any expansions or whatever for Sims 4 since I don't have enough interest in doing so.

TS1 2001 My siblings eventually let me play the game and I was hooked.

TS2 I was busy working two jobs so I didn't experience it too much.

TS3 I started playing shortly after release. Someone let me borrow the game but I ended up ruining the case which forced me to buy my own copy so I could switch out the cases. It was a really nice distraction after making the move to a new state (homesick). I don't even mind the case being messed up. It just reminds me of that time in my life.

I've been playing Sims 3 since it was released and still am. I started with Sims 1 (it came free with my brand new desktop PC) and went on to Sims 2, then 3.

I grew up on Sims 2 and then of course bought Sims as soon as I could, which was sometime in late December(I kinda manipulated my little sister into spending her Christmas money to help me buy it ?, but she wanted to play too, so not terrible.I was 18) . Then I went to college and didn’t really have much time for anything, so I didn’t play much until I graduated. I’m thirty now.

I borrowed my brother's copy of Sims 1 on New Year's Eve 2000, and stayed up most of the night; I was totally hooked from the start. I played it for a couple years after that, although I didn't get all of the expansions.

I never played Sims 2 because my laptop at the time didn't meet the minimum requirements.

When I got a new laptop in fall 2010, I bought Sims 3 almost as an afterthought: it was just sitting there on the shelf at the Apple Store where I got my MacBook Pro, and I figured why not try it, since I loved the first one. I got the bundle that included Ambitions and happily played with just that pack for about 6.5 years, until my laptop's performance started to falter a bit. I still tried to play though; I couldn't really help it.

I bought a new laptop in December 2017, and the rest of the EPs and some SPs in January 2018, but I still haven't really played with all the packs yet. I'm having too much fun adding one at a time and trying out all the new gameplay.

Since just after the war, I needed something to do to relax. Of course, the natural question to ask is, "Which war?" and I think it was the Crimean.

Okay, it was Nov 2011, it must have been just after Thanksgiving, and just possibly I have recovery from a family holiday get together confused with recovery from a horrible battle event from the 1850s. To be fair though, that can be easy to do. :)

I first installed a friend's copy of the base game when I was in college, so probably around 2011. Got a handful of expansion and stuff packs, but eventually the disc I was using broke but even before then my game was crashing because of the insane amount of CC I had install as well lol. By 2015/2016ish, my game was no longer functional. Recently I was able to get the 64 bit and metal version installed on my mac. The graphics are a disaster and I obviously don't have any stuff from my old saves to play (and I'm staying away from CC this go around since the 64 bit game is already not the most stable), but yeah, I guess I've officially been playing the sims 3 for almost 10 years now!