Well my computer is just a few months old so I would probably be able to run TS3 but I don't think I'll be running out to get it right away. I've spent too much money on TS2 to just give it up. Its not like buying a $50 game and then a couple of years later spending another $50 on the next version.
The Sims2 and all its expansions & stuff packs  is no little investment. Its been a while but I'm thinking that the base game was 40 or 50. The expansions have all been about 30 and the Stuff packs 20. That is upwards of $500 for the whole shebang and that's not even adding in any CC subscription sites that a player may or may not have purchased.

Wow.. now I wish I hadn't thought that through. I can't believe I've spent that much on a computer game.

 As someone else noted, there really doesn't seem to be the same amount of upgrade that we got when we moved from TS1 to TS2. I'm just not sure it would be worth it.

I do like the way you can change the color/fabric of the furniture & stuff though. I wish they would add something like to that TS2. I could easily be suckered into buying another TS2 expansion pack that added something like that.

I was thinking that same thing. They do seem to look alike.

An adult expansion pack would be cool.. not just for S3 but for S2 -since I'm not sure if or when I'll get S3- since you would have the choice of getting it or not.
I'm not so sure I would want a maniacal Sim running around killing off my other Sims though.
I am not above killing off a Sim. I have hacks with which I can do just that when ever I want.
That is the point though. Its when I want it to happen not when the game decides.

I also think that if killing characters off is what you want to do then there are plenty of games that let you do that right from the start. The Sims was never supposed to be that kind of game.

As for the game running all the time in the background, well that just sounds like a nightmare to me. If the Sims in S3 aren't any smarter then the Sims from S1 & S2 then all too often you'd open up the game to find the everyone dead or living in a home with nothing left because the repo man came calling since they don't pay bills unless you tell them to.

I remember leaving a S1 game running overnight without meaning to and waking up to a an dead family. Seems there was a cooking fire and they didn't have a smoke detector. No one called the fire department and since Sims run towards a fire instead of away from it -although in Apartment life I think Sims in apartments do leave the building- the whole family and the kitchen went up in smoke. There was nothing but little piles of ashes all over.

These are awesome! I've always hated the color of the Maxis tub like that!

You did an amazing job with her face.

beautiful

Very cool

gorgeous

I'm so confused! I downloaded this and installed it but it's not showing up in the game and now the generic shiba inu isn't showing in the create a family area either.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Very cool, just wanted to point out though that the link you give for the septum piercing takes you to q3tbo 's page and not temptress's.
Took me a few times to catch it, couldn't figure out why I couldn't find the mess on the page the link was taking me to.

He's gorgeous! Thank you sooo much!!

I'm curious.. where do these codes actually come from?