Just gives me quite a good time reason to play base game only alone. Though, not the quite motivation to start to patch 0 quite yet :D

As for this association, is there anything special you would do to accommodate the game's first 10's special milestone reach?

Eh, I'm just going to play the game with all the packs I have.

Shit! Should've made a video about this, especially because I've told myself a dozen times over not to forget.

Finally gonna get my arse over to the PC and fire it up, get some content finished maybe? Actually, maybe I'll revisit and revamp my first ever lot creation :D

The history of TS3 video would be awesome to look at. Since minecraft to have such videos of regression look backs :D

Eh, I don't know if TS3 is that interesting to look at. All I need to do is design a quick "The Sims 3 10th Anniversary" logo and stick it on one of my videos for 5 seconds.

Aging is inevitable I'd still be playing Sims up there. Hopefully we're away from responsibilities in the afterlife.

Well I'm going to hell no matter how you look at it so I figure it's only reasonable to expect the tax man to still be there as well. And the guy who still owes me €20. And people who insist on taking the seat next to me even though that's my laptop bag's seat, and there's a free four-seater halfway across the carriage.

I took a week off work when this was released. A historical day.

It's already June 2 for me. Happy Birthday Sims 3!

I was planning on releasing a mod today, but darn I'm having too many problems with it. Oh well, I'll celebrate it by throwing a party in my Sims house! Doesn't make me feel too old though since I was more or less a toddler when it came out :P

TS3's aged like fine cheese, which of course isn't for everyone. Sims still look clunky, some elements of the graphics (mostly the shadow draw distance and lack of floor-floor lighting) make it look old, the engine is largely unmoddable, and some of the designs in the game are still awful or dated.


But of course it's still the only click-and-point open world society simulator out there that also allows for easy modding and allows you to create entirely new worlds for your sims.

So I'll stick with that!



TS3 hasn't changed all that much, but looking into the development and finer bits of trivia is definitely worth doing.
Sims Nostalgia does dig a little into that, which makes things interesting: https://simnostalgia.tumblr.com/tagged/ts3

Since I couldn't really get away with not doing anything, I did the next best thing to not doing anything: basically nothing.

I got screwed out of a good €70 trying to order one of those Collector's Editions a few years ago....seller wasn't being malicious or anything, I'm sure, but the package made it from rural Colorado all the way to the parcel sorting center in Amsterdam when something went wrong and it was sent back to America. Sometime after arriving back in America it was re-sent to me and got lost in transit....gave up trying to get my money back when it became clear that according to eBay, I'd never purchased anything on their platform and the seller genuinely didn't know what had happened. Maybe if Amazon didn't try to sell me the same bullshit story I wouldn't have decided to boycott the both of them for the rest of my life. Dealing with faceless American corporations over the internet is the quickest way to insanity, but at least EA hasn't tried anything yet.

I understand your comparison between TS3 and cheese, but still, in my opinion, TS3 aged like wine. It only got better and better with each new piece of content and patch released from 2009 to 2014, and I consider that it got even better when TS4 proved to be such a big step back in terms of both features and enjoyability (at least for some people). Sure, it's hard to find that old wine I mean, nectar bottle that you've put somewhere in a rack in your basement several years ago, but it's even more enjoyable once you find it. Just how TS3 is more enjoyable than 4, once you get it to recognize your new graphic card.

I must say, even with all of its issues and its relatively long age, we all should be proud of what this game has accomplished: the most (and best!) features in this amazing franchise and countless hours of fun for so many people around the world.

Do you guys get a glass of wine when simming TS3 late in the afternoon?

Of course, and a backrub by a sultry brunette with a foreign accent. Don't you guys?

/me is arriving holding a waiter's tray of wine glasses, both red and white:

Help yourself, folks, have a drink, happy birthday, Sims 3!

/me contemplates while takes a sip of wine: My first clear memory of playing TS3 is - after installing and loading Sunset Valley - that my active sim leaves his house, crosses the street (gasp!), approaches the door of the opposite neighbor (gasp!), and rings their bell. It was awesome to cross the street and visit a neighbor real-time! after years of Sims 2, where nothing like this was possible. The neighbor wasn't at home, so nobody answered the door, and I noticed that my sim could peek through the window. The realization, that the whole neighborhood is "real time", was breathtaking. - I didn't like how the sims were designed to look though, and I still don't.

I remember being in chat with Inge at Simlogical when she posted a link to the Sims 3 trailer that showed a sim running all around the neighborhood before sitting down to eat. This was at a time in Sims 2 when we were both having trouble with sims routing all around the lot rather than simply going down a short hall to the room next to them, so we were discussing whether or not the trailer was actually the result of a sim who was supposed to be going from the kitchen to the dining room for breakfast.