Disappointed Customer

[Getback]

I'm not disappointed at all. Frankly I'm just thankful that we have a flight sim that is well monitored and plays very well in mho for a measley 15 bucks. Any updates or additions are just pure bonus to me.

[Helm]

HTC's customer service is outstanding....skuzzy has allways been very helpfull


As far as the death of TOD or CT whatever you want to call it, I am disappointed because I was looking forward to some high altitude combat.  If you have ever had a dogfight at 28,000 ft you understand just how challenging it is.  Sadly I guess we are stuck flying in the trees for all eternity.  I credit HTC for trying hard and dreaming "big".  Unlike Air Warrior which never tried to do anything for anybody.
I salute HTC.


<plays Taps for TOD>

Helm ...out

[opposum]

I love this game but the recent news has me stirred.
No CT is a blow to the AH mojo. I feel that loyal long time subscribers have been somehow wronged.
We get no CT. No mention of anything much salvaged from the effort.
In the meantime the game has grown old with meaningful updates a bit slim.
HTC in my opinion your customer relations are not great. I will not elaborate here.
But will humbly suggest that you keep subscribers more up to date on happenings and progress.
Long silences / no news then failure to deliver are annoying.
Please keep us informed at least monthly of progress on terrain upgrades, character animation, H2H and any other dated parts of the game engine that you may be ‘overhauling’.

I know that now begins a round of in posts. A few oh know how you dare say that type posts.
We shall see….will the thread be locked. What rules might have been transgressed?
Will this post remain here?
Might I get some kind of feedback from HTC or better hitech himself…….
Am I alone here or do others feel the same?

Yours in frustration and a little anger

Pat

im with ya 100%%%%%%%

id be happy as a 5 year old with car keys if they would just post more news or what not on the front page

the silence is killing me too.........

[Max]

I love this game but the recent news has me stirred.
No CT is a blow to the AH mojo. I feel that loyal long time subscribers have been somehow wronged.
We get no CT. No mention of anything much salvaged from the effort.
In the meantime the game has grown old with meaningful updates a bit slim.
HTC in my opinion your customer relations are not great. I will not elaborate here.
But will humbly suggest that you keep subscribers more up to date on happenings and progress.
Long silences / no news then failure to deliver are annoying.
Please keep us informed at least monthly of progress on terrain upgrades, character animation, H2H and any other dated parts of the game engine that you may be ‘overhauling’.

I know that now begins a round of in posts. A few oh know how you dare say that type posts.
We shall see….will the thread be locked. What rules might have been transgressed?
Will this post remain here?
Might I get some kind of feedback from HTC or better hitech himself…….
Am I alone here or do others feel the same?

Yours in frustration and a little anger

Pat

Your disappointed? Consider the time and effort HTC invested in bringing CT to market, only to be shelved for the foreseeable future.

As one who attended the Q&A at the Con, I can safely say that Hitech and Pyro are keenly aware of the need to keep the customer base happy. As Pyro said, there are a lot of ideas and projects in the "garage" which may eventually be blended into the game. The overriding issue is maintaining balance...some new game aspect may make 75% of the players happy while leaving the rest wearing frowns. Personally I trust HTC to do what's best for the game.

[RTHolmes]

[moot]

It's not dead, they just said they don't have the resources to finish it at this point.  
I personaly don't care about the lack of development news and don't see what the big freakin deal is.  The only thing I don't like is having so few additions to the planeset anymore, and having news (or not) about what they're working on makes no difference with that.  Everyone who's played the game and has pays a minimum of attention will know that HTC work their butt off on whatever it is they're doing.

[Denholm]

...Out of the blue, it's "on hold indefinately", which usually equates to "cancelled" for the most part.

You sure? HTC gave news that H2H was closed indefinitely, and look what news we received just a few days ago? Yes, I know, they didn't say when. They did mention, though, that they were going to try to bring it back.

[rabbidrabbit]

I expect that we will see a big improvement over a short period of time.  I think and hope that the biggest improvement will be in scenarios.

I wish HTC had done this a year ago, because i will be unable to play for the next year or so when all the cool stuff happens.  I blame the bearded one. 

What's Santa have to do with this?

[lagger86]

I'd rather have CT released when it is what HTC envisions, anything less isn't what they wanted. I don't play this game because of what it could be, but for what it is.

[rabbidrabbit]

I wish for a more tough and stiff flight model

Instead of flying nakid, strap on some more leather.

[LYNX]

Considering myself to be a "bread and butter" subscriber, since 2002.  I'm not disappointed about CT being shelved.  A little disappointed that time / resources were focused elsewhere for so long but then again if we were all blessed with "hindsite" we'd all by lottery winners.  The benefit of doubt is dually granted.  So it didn't pan out as expected.....big deal.

CT never kept me here and I had mixed feelings as to it's viability in the first place.  At least now we know where the resources are focused.

Look at it this way.  Say CT was a massive success and HTC sold out for $5,000000 to IEA or what ever.  HTC flying off to the beaches every weekend in his very own corsair while we get shat on big style by a gaming company.

[fuzeman]

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 No mention of anything much salvaged from the effort.
<snip>
Long silences / no news then failure to deliver are annoying.
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Pat

Quoting Pyro:
"What this all means for now is that we are going to focus on core game development.  We’re going to pull the CT AI mission system and redevelop it for use by CM’s in scenarios and special events.  We’re working on new terrain upgrades in both the technology and the art used.  We want to implement a character animation system.  We want to bring back the old 8 player H2H but expand it both in the number of players and with additional gameplay capabilities.  There’s a lot of systems in the game engine that are dated and in need of overhaul."

That sounds like news to me and they in fact did salvage something.

[BnZs]

I wish for a more tough and stiff flight model

What in the world is it that has people convinced that all WWII fighters handled like unstable death-traps? AHII airplanes will certainly stall/spin and put you into the ground if you push them too far.

[Soulyss]

I love this game but the recent news has me stirred.
No CT is a blow to the AH mojo. I feel that loyal long time subscribers have been somehow wronged.
We get no CT. No mention of anything much salvaged from the effort.
In the meantime the game has grown old with meaningful updates a bit slim.

This is from Pyro's update:

The way we’ve been going has been like trying to fight a two front war with only one army.  It’s stretched us too thin and has hurt our overall level of productivity.  It also has handcuffed us in a lot of our development decisions by forcing us to indefinitely postpone a lot of other things.

So no,  you can't have regular game updates and CT at the same time.  One or the other, personally I welcome this change in direction and look foward to some of the things they have in store for us. 

[BaldEagl]

When I first heard about CT the first thought that crossed my mind was "that sounds stupid... guess I won't be trying that".

Personally, I don't see why you'd want to substantially change something that's been working for almost two decades.  Refine it, tweak it yes.  Mess with the fundamentals no.

For the OP... Don't be sad: