By the time I ’ d turned up at EventCity UK I had already been awake for five hours . Fuelled by giddiness and a lovely bacon bap from a motorway service station , I and around three hundred other Simmers were queuing to enter the Simmers Meetup 2016 , the third event organised by BeyondSims and Rachybop . This year , the event took us to Manchester , and there was plenty in store !
I missed last year ’ s event , but there were plenty of familiar faces from the 2014 event and Twitter , like one of my favourites , Simtastic World ! It was also wonderful to meet the lovely Mollie ( you might know her as The English Simmer ), whose vlog will be over the page , as well as Luke the Plumbob and his amazing shiny jacket ! That ’ s not to mention the hilarious Steph0Sims , who it was great to meet !
The Sims Resource had a presence at this year ’ s event , and had machines set up to play every game - The Sims 1 through to The Sims 4 ! Unfortunately , The Sims 1 wouldn ’ t play ball with Windows 7 , but we all had a wonderful time ! They were holding a lucky dip of sorts , and we all came away with a free VIP membership for a week . Find out more about them here .
The venue was huge , and a wall of Sims umbrellas kept us from straying where we shouldn ’ t have ! EA took over a corner of the hall with their Pods , which allowed you to play not just The Sims 4 but also The Sims Freeplay and SimCity BuildIt ! We popped over there with Steph and Luke , where Steph found the fact that Freeplay has toddlers and pre-teens hard to swallow ...
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