umm I started some time in May-June like a week after the release so Idk when it was released

I started the day it was released with the demo. My mom gave me her credit card the very next day to pay for the full version.
Thanks mom!

I started about 23 weeks ago.

I started playing in mid to late May. I had just started replaying PT on my new computer and came on to get Borg's seed tray. I saw the new VF game and said "You're going to get addicted....don't buy it yet....you're going to get addicted..." Sigh...I made it about 36 hours before buying it.

Because of my job, I have to leave my games paused a lot, but I'm on Gen 10 on my first and favorite game. When I started, the very first thing that happened was the kitchen sink leaking!! I had NO idea what to do! Funny now that I look back on it.

I received the game as a birthday present in July. I started with one family and now have several more. I am grateful to the forums for helping me overcome all the ignorant things I tried to do or didn't know to do and for helping to keep my little families healthy and happy.
See you through the screen!
Cheron

And here *i* am just 2 weeks into owning it... Hmmm. i hate being the newbie, especially being so old! Hey, if the Games-Mistress reads this, suggestions...

1st, in true life, pets die after only 15 years or so, but ours here at VF last through generations. i know this is odd, but come on, growing up, we always had pet cemeteries... and no i am NOT talking Stephen King, but still, what about that in your next version?

And what is up with the next generation. My mother died 5 years after the father, the boy (6th of the family that i was grooming to be the inheritor) was only 18. yet when i went to make him the inheritor, he was 27...3 years older than the oldest that left for college 22 years before...

And speaking of true to real-time, why is money so odd to figure out. Sometimes, computer is off and i make tons of money for one family and the other - yes, i have 3 games going at the same time - make nothing??? yet their "salaries" are fairly comparable.

I am a newbie! I just started playing in August and it was paused for a while as it was a trial membership. I gave in and bought it about two weeks ago. I am addicted!

I got the game shortly after it was released, but then I didn't have much time to play it, and poor Chelsea was paused with her husband and baby for a couple of months, but recently I've started playing it again, and I am now on my third generation!

I started shortly after the game was released. I went to gen.24 in my first fam and then my laptop had to be repaired and it wiped the slot out.

I've been playing since day 1.