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

Started when the it first came out, so been playing for nearly 13 years!

As for The Sims franchise as a whole, I got The Sims as a Christmas gift in 2000, so almost a year after it's release date. I've been hooked ever since, so been playing The Sims franchise for 21 years! Fun fact, The Sims 4 is the only game I didn't play for a significant amount of time. :sweat_smile:

Never played to The Sims 3 and never will.

"ItsMeThatGuy;c-18107901" wrote:
Wait a second, you own the Sims 3 store?

@ItsMeThatGuy "own the store" is an expression that means you have bought everything there is to buy, including expansions. So, yeah, I own the store B)

"jillbg;c-18108709" wrote:

"ItsMeThatGuy;c-18107901" wrote:
Wait a second, you own the Sims 3 store?

@ItsMeThatGuy "own the store" is an expression that means you have bought everything there is to buy, including expansions. So, yeah, I own the store B)

Oh ok.

I started playing The Sims 3 in 2015 I played a demo version and loved it and then asked my mom to buy it and I think I started playing with the Bunch family which is kind of funny cause my current sim married Ethan and currently have 8 kids thanks to mods two sets of triplets and two non multiples.

It'll be 12 years for me in October, at least for Sims 3, and I'm still playing it. I played Sims 1 for a few years starting at the end of 2000, when I "borrowed" my brother's Christmas gift so I could try the game out for myself. I'm sad I missed out on Sims 2 (my computer couldn't run it) and not sad at all that I missed the first few years of Sims 4.

I pre-ordered the game back in the day and haven't stopped playing since. I don't play every day, but I have been playing consistently since the very beginning. I've been a SIM fan since the Original Sims came out way back when. I've played every version except 4 only because I enjoy SIMS 3 very much and still haven't done everything with the game.

Since 2016.

Respect to all the veterans with 12 years+ :smile:

I bought the base game on the day of release in June 2009. Bought all of the EPs as they were released (except Showtime, which I must have bought one year later when it was on sale), as well as the first four SPs, and still haven't bought the latter four.

I've taken breaks here and there, especially during 2014-2018, when I hardly played due to having more pressing concerns.

I've almost certainly played over 2,000 hours of the game, though that's only an estimate, as I only played the retail disc version prior to 2017. Since then, I've payed ~420 hours. Nice.

In terms of The Sims in general, I've been a fan since 2003, when the Sims Bustin' Out was released on PS2. Played all of the mainline games in the series, as well as all console and handheld iterations, until the release of TS4. I haven't touched any of the newer products since, save for playing TS4 for a few hours in 2017 when I received the base game for free via Origin, grew bored of it and never looked back. I would be extremely hesitant to buy The Sims 5 when it inevitably releases in 2030. So I suppose you could call me a former Simmer.

I have been playing sims since I was a little girl. I have been playing for 11 years