Origin says I've put in 1941 hours, but I know it's a lot more because there were months in 2014-15 (or maybe it was 2015-16) where the hours stopped updating!
What keeps me going? Sims became a creative place for me. I start of in the Sims ecosystem creating "people", and some of them turn out to have relationships and futures, and it just keeps snowballing. I fell in love with lots of them - they were just so charming, and adorable and animated - and they keep me attached too. They still do things that I've never seen them do before, or things that make me feel really, really happy inside, and I love giving in to that feeling. I suppose my Sims saves (one more than the other of what I've kept going) have taken on their own lives within my life. I'm still always creating new strands in them. And now and then the whole ecosystem expands again and there's even more I've not experienced. So it's constant creation on different scales, and constant discovery and exploration, and lots of moments of just plain outright joy. And all that without leaving the house, which I especially appreciate on days when I can't leave the house. For me, it's above all a kind of replenishment.
