Now how long have you been playing the Sims 3 for?

While I definitely bought it in 2009 during college, I played mostly until 2013-14 then took a long break. This year I finally restarted and found out that making a town with less community lots really makes the game come to life.

I have been playing since its release in 2009. I did go back to TS2 when I got the complete collection (minus store stuff :'( ) for free. I even tried TS4...yeah...no. I love my TS3...I would absolutely love it if my computer could play the original series. That was totally my jam. I will continue on with TS3 for the foreseeable future, and continue to buy from the store, as long as it's kept open.

Uffda... Long time ago. Got it in 09, had so much fun with it once riverview and Barnacle Bay came out.. then Lucky palms.... Found NRAAS and enjoyed the mayhem.... Didnt know the sims 3 store was still going, interesting... Thought that had gone by the way side years ago...

Around 2013-ish I was exposed to a "The Sims" mod for Minecraft (where you could build your own city with interactive people in them), of all things. Found out that The Sims was in fact an actual game franchise, and quickly downloaded The Sims Freeplay on my old tablet. When I saved up enough money, I then promptly bought The Sims 3.

I do remember playing The Sims 2 & The Sims 1 VERY briefly at a family member's house way before this, but I don't think that it counts :# .

I got my copy of The Sims 3 cheap from a thrift store, and it turned out to be the most absorbing game I've played.

easily 4-6 years, i'm not sure if that's too accurate but i know i've certainly loved the game since the sims 3 came out!

I think the first time I played Sims 3 was some time in 2010 or 2011. I'm not really sure, but I only played it very occasionally on a laptop until it got to slow and I quit playing.

My current Sunset Valley save that I'm still playing is from the latter half of 2016. However, I only played for a while until some time in 2017 and then left it alone/forgot about it..

..but then came 2020, and I started playing it again, as well as buying my first expansion pack, University Life. And the rest you know (or is available on this forum). :P

In total, that would be something like 4-5 years, actually not much more than that, even though it's 12 or 13 years since the very first time I played Sims 3. And that only happened because I had borrowed my sisters Sims 2 game sometime in 2008 or 2009, which later made me buy my own version, and that version was Sims 3. :P Well, and in part since I have already played the Sim City series since the early 2000s.

So.. I'm choosing to answer 4-6 years on the poll, because that's the number of years I have actually been playing, or somewhere close to that.

I started playing the Sims 3 in 2011 when I was around 4. IDK why my parents let me play it at a young age but yeah the sims is my childhood.

Here I was trying to do math. "Oh, since 2013 so that's..." wait it's already been 10 years. :smiley: :open_mouth:

Just realized I had already made my input on this thread ! B)