Author Topic: If HTC (Read 1519 times)

Dux · « **Reply #30 on:** April 27, 2007, 03:06:08 AM »

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Ghosth · « **Reply #31 on:** April 27, 2007, 07:07:29 AM »

Blooz & Mr Biggles both had good points people.

If your not showing the new folks by both word and deed the proper way.
How do you expect them to learn? If your not putting in a hour in the TA now & then to help educate. How do you expect them to respect you and the time you've put in?

Granted there are some folks flying that probably shouldn't be, and at least half the time they'd be here no matter what price you put on it.
Yes the trainers are on it, but we are just plain folks too. We have a home life & once in a while like to fly a sortie in main same as everyone else.

If you are going to come help out take your cue from guys like Blooz & Morfiend. When a trainers on they wait to see if the trainer will answer first. Basicly they work hard not to step on trainers toes, but are there pitching in when needed. Pointing new pilots to the trainers website, & http://www.netaces.org and answering questions. Besides, the TA is a good place to work on some of those advanced ACM moves. Or just hang out and fly in a non lethal enviorment.

Last, don't impose YOUR personal preferences on their game.
If they ask whats a good starter plane don't push em towards the F4u or the 190. Encourge them to jump in a spitfire and learn to turn first.

Above all be polite, respectful, make sure all answers are correct.

Bruv119 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 27, 2007, 07:26:12 AM »

In response to Emu.

I played FA for 5 years 2000-05 I tried AH1 for a week but had issues with 1 the gfx and 2 lost patience with the flight model.

FA is more of a fast paced dogfighting game, action is quicker flight model easier to pick up. The varying flight models can give a false impression level1 arcade or FFA is extremely arcadish plane pulls insane G's and no blackouts. Level 10 advanced is more like AH probably harder than.

In terms of gameplay and player numbers AH wins hands down.

When I left 2 years ago I predicted that the game would die down and close but the hardcore aspect of their community are keeping a stagnated game alive. It will die its death soon enough! When there are more people logged into this forum than in their equivalent of the MA on a friday night prime time you get the picture.

I've come across and helped many others try AH out. Thanks to the new terrain they can no longer say the graphics are better.

Bruv
~S~

Simaril · « **Reply #33 on:** April 27, 2007, 07:42:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Atoon
.....I didnt expect this post to go any particular way, but it is going a very long way twards proving that the rules of posting here, seem to only apply to certain situations.

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Originally posted by Monster0
.....A punk is just a punk. No matter how long they have played , or how much money u make u can still be a punk. What the game needs is a decrease of the jerks in the game.

DaPup · « **Reply #34 on:** April 27, 2007, 07:57:47 AM »

I don't play nearly as much as I used to and some months log fewer than 1-5 hours. The game might be worth $30 a month.....but I wouldn't pay it. I think alot of guys are like me that love the game but life issues have lowered our time available to play.

I think Hub said it where raising the price doesn't mean you get a better class of people playing....I certainly would agree with that.

freezman · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2007, 11:44:51 AM »

listen buddy...

i love the game, heck if i could i would , but i can just barely afford it as is on my tight budjet so..... and i think many people would agree

thread hijack
poop

FrodeMk3 · « **Reply #36 on:** April 27, 2007, 11:59:39 AM »

You know, if it went to $29.95 a month, I'd think that for the first month or so you would see some people hanging on. But, paying twice as much, I think you'd start to see people dropping out more quickly...especially the vets, and the older guys that don't play every night. For example, if you take a 31 day month, and break down the average, that's roughly .50 cents a day. However, you double that to a dollar, and a guy is going to think twice about leaving his account open if he can only get on for about 20-50% of the available time that month. If you only have time to play maybe 25% of the time, it suddenly becomes 4$ a day.The money concious might not stay too long. Plus, Any competition out there would'nt have to worry so much about keeping on par with AH if they kept the price low. A lot of AH'ers would go to the cheaper deal.

BaldEagl · « **Reply #37 on:** April 27, 2007, 12:08:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Monster0
A punk is just a punk. No matter how long they have played , or how much money u make u can still be a punk. What the game needs is a decrease of the jerks in the game.

Turn on the jerk filters.

Flatbar · « **Reply #38 on:** April 27, 2007, 12:25:24 PM »

Compaired to the cost of other entertainment, HTC was a bargain at $30/month.

I would pay that amount again because of the product quality and entertainment value.

I think the only way I'd quit is if I went blind or suddenly became a quadriplegic, even then I'd try to figure out a way to play.

SKurj · « **Reply #39 on:** April 27, 2007, 01:00:11 PM »

I paid close to $55/month cdn when I first started in AH. Bought money orders, sent em by fancy mail system...

Would I spend $29.95 now.... mebbe

Would it reduce the number of twits... overall probably, would it reduce the ratio of twits to the norms... no

-CodyC · « **Reply #40 on:** April 27, 2007, 03:01:35 PM »

No, to answer the original question. Mainly because i look forward to days coming home from school or work and drinking a beer or two and shooting people down. Double the cost and i would have to pick between the two, budgeting sucks.

My question is how has the population changed since the price has been reduced? I mean if the number of subscribers has a little more than doubled since the price went to 14.95 then they are breaking even with what they were making before. And if the population has increased then that means the increase is itself an advertisement by word of mouth.

Is it worth $30/month? Absolutely.

Gulp · « **Reply #41 on:** April 27, 2007, 03:26:33 PM »

Nope. Just not worth it to me. You think the whining is bad now? Raise the price and see what folks start demanding or complaining about. They will expect more and tolerate less.

My $0.02

cpxxx · « **Reply #42 on:** April 27, 2007, 03:44:22 PM »

Frode speaks for me. I can't get to fly that often with work pressures and a wife and baby son plus all the other stuff. I can tolerate 15 bucks a month which for me is a mere 10 Euro and only fly once a week or even less at times. If I was still single with no life. I would get value for money at $30 a month. Not any more. It's not about affordability but value for money.

Gulp has it nailed too, If I pay that much I will want top notch graphics and lots of extras. No question.

The simply reality that HTC is a business. It may be a game to us but to Hitech and the rest it's their living. The price is pitched to bring in the punters. That's the reality of it.

Karash · « **Reply #43 on:** April 27, 2007, 04:18:09 PM »

Honestly, I wouldnt play for 30 a month. I could afford to, but I dont play enough as it is...got too many other online games going on.

Soulyss · « **Reply #44 on:** April 27, 2007, 04:47:26 PM »

I do consider the current mentality that seems to have taken hold troubling. I think it's up to us lifer's to try and step up and show the newbies that there is a right way to do things.

I had an exchange a couple days before the last patch made the whole case moot. Someone made a statement about being upset that they had died with a 50+ kill streak going. They went on to say that they got it from hiding their tank in a windmill till someone found them and bombed them out. I tried to explain that it was bad form to exploit a game bug. But was met with the counter-argument that other people were doing it so it must be ok, that is the kind of logic that seems to be the standard. I remember when people who cussed or swore were called out by the other players online. I think the people who remember the "good 'ol days" can make a difference to the younger players it's just going to take some effort on our part.