I'm not gonna argue this point into the ground and will drop the subject if needed but getting TS3 to run well can take extra money and technical knowledge that a lot of simmers downright don't have. It's easy to think it's worth it when you have a rabid passion for TS3 but passion's always been in the minority...welcome to a casual franchise. I'm just going with responses I've gotten in several communities. Of course I've known ragequitting TS4 players as well or those who otherwise stopped playing, but very few I've known go back to TS3 either. If you can't run TS4 then it's a bad sign (if not guaranteed) for being able to run a more intensive/finicky/poorly optimized game like TS3.