I started playing around 2004-2005, I think. I bought the original game in Tesco of all places, got the expansions for Christmas that year and ended up buying the successive games (and many of the packs).
I loved the quirky humour of Sims 2 in particular but hated the long load times. Sims 4 is often buggy for me but I think I like the style the best, which is weird considering that I didn't like it when the concept art was first released. I also like the hybrid option of open neighbourhoods, which are a good compromised between open world and closed world games.
In an ideal world I would like to see Sims 4 free of bugs, and have dragons and faeries and historical content for me to play with.