Aces High Price: My Suggestion

[Westy]

 I agree TAC. Many fine folks cannot play due to the price. For those folks I am sympathetic.  And as a result many remain on the ZONE or Gamestorm or maybe they moved on to the WB's "ACA" for 10/mo for something better.

 One problem is this, if HTC were to drop the price to a low of $10/mo, then yes,  we would indeed be re-aquainted with many old mates but the doors to AH would be flung wide open to the REAL dreck of the Internet.
 The community you see in AH now, would be gone in a month or two and replaced with a myriad of clans filled by jeuvinile "g3n3ral kEwl d3wDz" along with "game gamers" galore who couldn't tell you the difference between a DB-603 and a McFilet-A-Fish but they'll take advantage of every bug or nuance in the game..
  Give folks a 90 day account at $10/mo for an arena that they can learn in. Something more than the free 2 week trial.  Please, just don't wish that HTC lower themselves to the level of fast food take out.

 Been there. Seen it. I shiver at the memory.

  -Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 09-26-2000).]

[flakbait]

I hear you Westy. I got away from WBs completely due to both the company and the crowd. After getting a copy of Rogue Spear I tried it online at Mplayer. What a joke that was. Check the ARMM boards for a real wake-up call. This is played online for free, and look at the idiots they get.

I've seen guys there that claim to be real "gun nuts" yet don't know what a .50 BMG is. AH would go straight into the crapper if the price dropped to $10/month. You'd see those morons here screaming for a Zeke with a 500mm cannon that fires at 5,000 rpm. I got away from WBs and Mplayer because of attitudes like that.

Would I play online for $15-20 a month? Nope. I wouldn't play online if the main was free. Why? I don't put up with the kind of BS people are complaining about in the main. I've seen it first hand during my trial, and I don't like it.

If all that hits here, I'm gone. The occasional idiot I can handle, maybe five or six at once. But an entire game full of 'em? Forget it.

Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School
"My art is the wings of an aircraft through the skies, my music the deep hum of a prop as it slices the air, my thrill the thunder of guns tearing asunder an enemy plane."
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19 September 2000

[Pyro]

We're no different than any other business in that we always have to analyze the effectiveness of our pricing.  




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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

[Westy]

 I understand that Pyro. Let me go on record in that I would never ask (again) to see the price raised.    
 
  -Westy

[LePaul]

Hey guys, thanks for replying..especially to HTC's own Pyro.

Since this thread has wandered a little, let me restate my initial suggestion:

a)  As aforementioned, my connect speeds to the game servers is not always that great, so I'd like to be able to buy either a full scale, leggit copy of Aces or, through whatever means by licensing and such, be able to host my own 16/32/64 player games.

b)  The prices for Aces High seem too high to me.  But, I am not ranting on about that.  I've run a subscription BBS system for years.  If the price is too low, the riff-raff come in and squeak & moan.  If its too high, it scares way too many potential subscribers away.  So, maybe if you guys could bring the price down somewhere in the middle?  At its current $30 price tag, its more than I pay for Internet Access per month, and frankly, I do not feel I'd get $30 of usage out of it.  I play a few times a week, and then there are times I go a month without playing.

c) Easymo's ranting about me is pathetic.  In the game he refers to, it was a FFA (Free For All) game.  I was killed on the runway 3 times and thought it was hilarious....I mean, come on, seeing a 500 pound bomb come through the windshield is pretty impressive!  I hosted a great game last night that filled up fast, Chunder, Carrie, Abunabi and several others were in there having a great time.  So, Easymo, as far as being a host goes, you are the only one whinning.  So unless you care to apologizing for boo-hooing about nothing, Ill just keep on banning you with glee.

And as this thread began, these are just suggestions.  I really enjoy the game and just wish I could host bigger games that allow for more than 8 players.

Thanks all.

Paul Bussiere