What order did you get the sims in?

For me it was (think i've already said so) Sim city, sims 4, sims 3.

I got all games in order. And I will continue to get all sims games.. I am a huge sims fan despite all the flaws it has.

I got them all in order, I remember the first time I played the Sims 1 at a friend's house and then again a few years later making sims in The Sims 2. Unpopular opinion I think the Sims 2 was the worst, it's still a good game but I can't enjoy it unless it is heavily modded. The primary reason I wanted it was the CAS, and I begged my mom to let me buy it when I was in middle school. But the game play felt too goal oriented to me with the aspiration system and I didn't like how they changed things from the Sims 1. And now that CAS is so much better in 3 and 4 I have no reason to play it other than occasional nostalgia. The Sims 1 on the other hand I still play on a regular basis. I guess this rant is slightly off topic though.

I'm like Al Pacino in The Devils's Advocate: I've had my nose in it since this thing began! SimCity 3000, I saw the trailer for The Sims. Bought it on release. Received The Sims 2 the Christmas following its release, a couple of months afterwards. Played that predominately until last year, though I tried TS3 and some of its expansions. It had aspects I loved, but I preferred my absolute control over the neighborhood -- I liked designing my own spaces. Enter The Sims 4 last June, and I've loved it so much I keep not getting around to TS2.

I got everything in order for the most part. Since I actually went to a store for Sims 1 and Sims 2 to get physical copies... I might have gotten some packs out of order but really can't remember.. mostly talking about stuff packs for Sims 2 though.
I did get the base on Sims 3 .. but didn't enjoy it and stopped buying.
I got back in the swing of buying in order for Sims 4. At least with everything being readily available online you don't miss anything. You just chose whether or not you want it or can afford it.

I played 1 and 2 on my daughters computer, and we didn’t own all packs because we couldn’t afford it, or the computer lagged too much after a pack. I owned sims 3, but didn’t play it long because it would crash a lot ( even with a good gaming laptop). It also had a lot of rabbit holes. And, I don’t remember being able to play rotationally. I got tired of reinstalling it fast. And I got involved in an online game I liked. Sims 4 I have all expansions , game packs and stuff packs except Discover University which I will be getting soon. I started on a low end laptop, and it held several packs without lagging. Because of the lag, I took 2 years off because I could no longer Keep buying packs, and toddlers made it lag so much ( though I wanted them badly). In those two years I saved for a new gaming laptop and started buying all the packs again ( starting with City living. I love that it doesn’t crash and the ease of getting packs through origin and being easy to download and install. I don’t use mods and CC in this game ( while back in sims 2, I made some CC clothes). At my age I am too computer illiterate, and it isn’t worth it messing around with trying to figure out how to take out mods and CC and update them, making sure nothing is broken. I love all the stuff packs because I love getting new content. I feel punished since they stopped offering us so many stuff packs. I don’t think we should have to rely on custom content to get new clothes, hair styles, and objects on a an often basis. I loved each time packs came out, I miss not getting so many. I ask EA..... please bring back regular stuff packs. The main issue I have with sims 4 is that I miss it being more like sim 2 was when I comes to babies, And the fun of buying clothes rather all clothes being opened to sims without buying them, I think you could even buy clothes for babies back then, and they didn’t seem like objects. Also, in Sims 2 children could play with each other.... playing tag, cops and robbers, volleyball etc. I also liked likes and dislikes, the memory system and things like that. Oh, and I absolutely loved the color wheel for making clothes and furniture combinations, it gave us so many more objects and clothes with all the combinations without having to buy or download custom content. I hope they bring the color wheel and patterns back in sims 5, real babies, toddlers clubs, active careers ( which I see as one of the best features in sims 4 ) and buying clothes ( without being giving them free). I wish we had to buy clothes, jewelry, shoes, make up etc. I do also love the way the sims are done (CAS) in this pack, so easy to make, they can gain and lose weight, they have tons of recipe options and multi tasking. I love the active careers and also being able to have my sims make money in so many different ways without a real job. Just had one of my sims do DJing and was happy to see he could really make money from it. I also love being able to play rotationally.and not worry about my game crashing. Bring on more stuff packs, and more active careers!

Don't have 1 and 2, but I did get 4 and 3 in that order. The reason being that a relative of mine initially got me into The Sims as a whole by playing Sims 3, but I got Sims 4, which she then started to enjoy a lot when watching so she got Sims 4 as well, and around the same time I wanted to try Sims 3 so we kind of swapped places for a while. As for now, both of us only have Sims 4 installed right now...

TS1 I only have vacation and makin' magic Iove it but I don't often play because needs are pain and I don't have all packs and then even my computer hates to run it

TS2 lended to someone and never got most of the packs back so late night and bon voyage for that

like it in a way but in another way idk I suppose I just feel the lack of many packs I used to have when I play it now and there is some things that I didn't really realize were annoying back then

TS3 don't really like anymore for tons of reasons but I have most packs because due to origin I can't sell them ._.

avoided the sweet treat horror and most of the store and world pack stuffs thankfully

TS4 is okay could be better too tho but is recovery from my annoyances with ts3
misses few things from ts1 and 2 that could easily make me love this game

I also played some of the spinoffs like urbz and medieval that got some nice stuffs but also their own small annoyances

I got them in order of release dates.

The Sims 3 was the only iteration where I bought packs in different orders, not in line with their release dates. I ended up getting all of them in the end, save for that one pack that shall not be named.

Sims 1, Sims 3 Sims 2 Sims 4

Got Sims 1, didn't get Sims 2 as I was playing other games. Got back into simming when Sims 3 was part of a Humble Bundle I got for another game, then got Sims 2 free.