What’s your opinion on lore/ backstories in The Sims?

I miss them. I would always use them as a jumping off point when I played with the premades and didn't have any ideas.I hope they bring them back if they do make a sims 5.

I delete all premades and fill the world with my own sims. Creating sims and their stories is the reason I play so having that done for me isn't enjoyable. It's no problem if it's there to me though, cuz yeah, I can just delete them.

While it’s never been a necessity to me, it’s always been something I enjoyed in my worlds and my towns. Backstories and biographies to the Sims around my household made the town feel much more alive, and made many (like Thorton Wolff from the Sims 3 being one of my favourites) have a permanent place in my heart. Even if I don’t play with premades often, worlds feel much more lively and real when they’re fleshed out, and it’s a feature I miss deeply in The Sims 4.

I love lore, and it's one area I'd love to see improved upon (although with TS4 I have extrapolated heavily on what we do get for Sims like Johnny and the Vatores). Give me that good story stuff!

I miss the lore. I didn't play with pre-mades much to be honest, but it's nice when you see them around town and know a bit about them. I know I can make it up myself, and I do for my own sims, but if I'm playing with a pre-made, they should be pre-made and have their story too, not just be a pretty face.

I always look at all the premades individually and read their family biographies when a new pack comes out, but after that they become background characters in my story that features my own sims. When I do play with premades, I usually change their appearances and backgrounds to fit them into my world. If anything, I sometimes take inspiration from the established lore, but ultimately it's not that important to me because I tend to do my own thing anyway.

I love lore and backstories. They're never forced on anyone because of how the game works so it's nice to have them for people who like them. For me it's not always fun to play only with my own imagination and they help to shake things up like I wouldn't come up with a serial killer auntie but if I'm given one I'll see what I can do about it ahah. Sometimes I would just read all the backstories and come up with plot for my sims. Plus premades neighbours and side characters are always better than whatever game generates.
Sadly for me it's one more area where TS4 were incredibly lazy. I still remember my dissapointment when I played Pancakes for the first and last time and they were nothing like advertisments, nothing. And among newer premades (though not actually new, because I played a long while ago) I only remember some groups of adults companies living together because reasons.
Yeah, I'd dream they go back to lore, to Bella, to aliens, to Nervous, but it's just dreams.

To be honest I couldn't care less for lore. I never pay attention to the premades that much. Some little hints of backstory is nice to have though.