I believe the original topic was Warbirds III and its free 1 week trial...
When it was free for an entire month I played it for all of 10 minutes. Everytime they release a new version, I install it and fly it for the 20 seconds it takes to see that it still looks like crap on my Voodoo 5500 with clouds that are jittery and have visible tile borders (like X-planes version 6 demo, but unlike every other new game I have tried that has come out before or since WB3, which all look fantastic including IL2, Operation Flashpoint, SAR3, Hitman, etc.), then uninstall it. Of course WB3 lost me from the start when iEN revealed that WB3 is essentially WB2 with a new graphics engine. There were only 2 reasons I had WB2 on my computer: offline AI for target practice and head-to-head on LAN. Since HTC added LAN capability, neither is installed on my computer.
I could care less what HS says, I am more interested in what he has done and will do in terms of programming. So far, WB3 has fallen far short of his boasts for me. I don't find its graphics revolutionary or even good (some of the planes look like caricatures of the real ones) nor its modeling to be any more realistic than WB2 since it essentially is the WB2 flight models. I can't see how WB3 will ever really be competitive with Aces High as long as HTC continues to develop and refine the game at the present pace.