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I agree that playing for money in Heroes is a utopia (although, as a child – and I still am a child – I was thrilled when I earned 144 rubles on HeroSports). But I strongly disagree that it's impossible to switch from the fifth game to the third. It's quite possible. It's difficult. Not everyone will want to. But for me personally, there are no more special secrets in the fifth game, and I sometimes play the third game and believe that it surpasses the fifth in many respects.
P.S. I don't know if this is an indicator of popularity, but still. At the Russian Championship in the sports game "What? Where? When?" among schoolchildren, a game called "Alphabet" was played as a non-competitive event (I won't go into the meaning). When a screenshot from the fourth Heroes game appeared on the screen, the hall erupted in outrage. Guess why? That's right. There were shouts of "The third game is better," etc. This is to say that the problem of popularity, in my opinion, doesn't really exist.