If you actively play sims 4, when did you start playing the sims?

This is a bit similar to a poll I did back in 2017. The results show that the majority of forum users started with an earlier version of the game. Only 12% of 636 votes started with the Sims 4. I've seen comments that the younger Sims 4 players don't frequent the forum. Will be interesting to see if the results have changed.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/931295/for-those-currently-playing-and-enjoying-sims-4/p1

"simgirl1010;c-18044466" wrote:
This is a bit similar to a poll I did back in 2017. The results show that the majority of forum users started with an earlier version of the game. Only 12% of 636 votes started with the Sims 4. I've seen comments that the younger Sims 4 players don't frequent the forum. Will be interesting to see if the results have changed.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/931295/for-those-currently-playing-and-enjoying-sims-4/p1

The game and the franchise did change a lot between these 4 years. It sure is nice to have the poll result from the past to compare.

I'm surprised we're so overwhelmingly from the olden days, and so far no-one hails from the full decade of Sims 2-3.

I'll also posit: the Sims 4 has been out now for a hundred years, and has frustrated its users in a range of ways, so people who still play it in 2022 may do so for partly nostalgic reasons.

"Benjamilian;c-18044492" wrote:
I'm surprised we're so overwhelmingly from the olden days, and so far no-one hails from the full decade of Sims 2-3.

I'll also posit: the Sims 4 has been out now for a hundred years, and has frustrated its users in a range of ways, so people who still play it in 2022 may do so for partly nostalgic reasons.

See, I guess I don’t understand this. Sure, the game is frustrating. But so were the others, just in different ways. I could never create and play the kind of characters I wanted to play in Sims 2. That was frustrating enough that I quit trying. Sims 3 was laggy as heck and the routing problems, while hilariously funny at times, were tremendously aggravating. None of the games have been perfect. If people are only playing this iteration out of nostalgia, I would suggest they have been looking at the past games through rose colored lenses.

Since Makin' Magic
I do think we could and should be Makin' More Magic yes.
and I hope this gp finally adds romance to TS4 since I've been missing it dearly.

as for bigger picture?
I think we ought to have something different after ts4 I don't really fancy gathering same packs for 5th time
but then again I don't plan to continue to after ts4 unless ts4 has been completed to its best potential

"Benjamilian;c-18044492" wrote:
I'm surprised we're so overwhelmingly from the olden days, and so far no-one hails from the full decade of Sims 2-3.

I'll also posit: the Sims 4 has been out now for a hundred years, and has frustrated its users in a range of ways, so people who still play it in 2022 may do so for partly nostalgic reasons.

I play Sims 4 because I love playing Sims 4. I still got my old Sims games to play with, when I want to play them. (I still play Sims 3 with mods as well as Sims 4, and I still have my Sims 2 collection and some of my Sims 1 games. I prefer to play mostly Sims 4 or modded Sims 3 nowadays, though.)

"VeeDub;c-18044663" wrote:
The text in the choices is a bit misleading, because "Sims 2 and 3 era (2004-2014) + Simsfreeplay" doesn't really describe my situation at all. :lol: I had no interest in Sims 1 or 2 (still don't), and the first game in the franchise that I played was Sims 3 sometime in 2011ish, maybe 2012, but it was only for a few weeks because I didn't enjoy it, and I never played it again after that. I couldn't even work up enough interest in it to mod it. I also played no other games at all from the franchise until Sims 4 sometime in early 2019. If I had gone with the time part of the poll choices, I might have picked "The Sims Mobile (2018-2020)+ sims 4 free download" despite never having played those at all (and never will, as I don't like mobile games in general), because I don't consider myself a Sims fan from before that time period.

The timing is more important here since the question is when. The text of choice is just the monuments of the franchise in that period of time. Also sims 4 free download is actually an event in eary 2019 instead of a game.

Therefore I'll consider you as the 2018-2020 option.

Also thanks for sharing your experience.

Oh, you left one out. I began my Sims' Odyssey in 2005 with the Sims 2. Previously, I wasn't into video games, but this one truly hooked me. I transitioned to Sims3 and had a love/hate relationship with it. I really enjoyed how quirky and "independent" my Sims seemed in Sims2. I didn't have to try to corral them to eat together or actively prompt conversation while they ate. I tentatively moved on to Sims4, once the word came out it wasn't going to be a multiplayer game after all. Phew, dodged that phaser blast. I told myself if the Sims, themselves, weren't more to my liking, IE closer to the ones from Sims2, that would be it for me. I wouldn't purchase anything else Sims4. Turns out they were close enough and the Toddlers that arrived late are well-worth the wait! I play every day, now, something I wasn't doing up front.

Oopsies. I meant to vote on Sims 3. Sorry about that. I tend to have a comprehension problem.

@VeeDub Mine either, so I chose nothing but explained why. I never played Freestyle, for one.