Blast from the past - Wild Bill going to spin off Warbirds from totalsims?

[eagl]

A blast from the past...  I saw a note in an online business networking site about Wild Bill Stealey inviting people to try out warbirds.  The interesting part was this:

This game will be the basis for a new game company I am forming. I have taken two game companies public so far and I think this new company will be the best of them all. Check out my old companies, MicroProse Software and Interactive Magic. The new company will be announced shortly.

Interesting.

[Anaxogoras]

Such a sad story.    That man is all about marketing with zero interest in content and development.

[jdbecks]

Why has the new warbards, is it warbirds 2007 not doing to well? deos is the FM not very good?

[Westy]

"I have taken two game companies .." and augered them both.


omg.  http://www.gamezone.com/news/04_27_09_01_23PM.htm

What a deluded bag of hot air!


Oy!

http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1167783/

I think Mild Dill and Voss are kissing cousins...

[Strip]

I have heard a lot of stories about the demise of Warbirds and that whole regime...

Almost afraid to ask any questions or have it explained to me.

[rpm]

"I have taken two game companies .." and augered them both.

[firbal]

Why has the new warbards, is it warbirds 2007 not doing to well? deos is the FM not very good?

The only thing keeping it alive is the S3. If you look at the game today, it hasn't progress much since the 3 verion was release about 7 or so years. The make a once a year update to keep the copyright going.

I was at their last con about 3 year ago. Talked with Wild Bill several times. He's a movating guy to talk with. But he doesn't stike with anything once it's release. He talk about how many units of Gunship they sold. I told him he should do like they did with Falcon 4.0 and take that game back and update it and release it again. There is a big group that still plays and mod it. But he is not that interested. Warbirds is just a way for him to bring in cash as he works on other projects. Very disappointing the way he treats a great game.

[phatzo]

And a lot of names from the S3 are slowly but surely creeping in here.

[blshar]

"I have taken two game companies .." and augered them both.

Augered... got out, set it on fire, and then took a chainsaw to it. While continuously telling everyone "we'll have it flying again in 2 weeks, thanks for the monthly dues."

[Stalwart]

I left when they turned off Warbirds 2.7

Aces High has been so many times above and beyond every version of Warbirds 3.

The only thing I miss is the smooth and easy in-flight external views, not that we need them online.

[Vudak]

I didn't realize Warbirds was even still around...  It seems like whenever there's an argument over different online flight sims around here, it's down to AH2 and IL2, with WW2OL occasionally being mentioned.

[batch]

yep theyre still around and not as dismal as everyone around here would lead you to believe......

I went and checked out their boards last night and read a few....

seems they recently had a major update as well and going through the same growing pains that AH is having.....

lots of people having problems with patches etc etc......

also looked at a few screenshots and some video footage........ pretty nice stuff

there were some things just from screenies that you could see right away that werent as nice as AH... cockpits for example

however there was quite a bit that makes AH look like an old game..... their terrain for example

I never tried warbirds so I dont know what the playability is like..... Im pretty content right where I am....... but I didnt see alot of whining about it on the boards

[Stalwart]

Granted it was probably circa 2005, but the last time i tried Warbirds 3 online, they had spontanious air spawns of drones in the main online arena.   

[gyrene81]

yep theyre still around and not as dismal as everyone around here would lead you to believe......

I went and checked out their boards last night and read a few....

seems they recently had a major update as well and going through the same growing pains that AH is having.....

lots of people having problems with patches etc etc......

also looked at a few screenshots and some video footage........ pretty nice stuff

there were some things just from screenies that you could see right away that werent as nice as AH... cockpits for example

however there was quite a bit that makes AH look like an old game..... their terrain for example

I never tried warbirds so I dont know what the playability is like..... Im pretty content right where I am....... but I didnt see alot of whining about it on the boards

Uh Batch...almost my entire squad has jumped from Warbirds to AH in the past 2 months and we can tell you for a fact...it's rotten pork.

That last update was so SKYDVR could tell everyone "hey look I finally figured out how to fix Dawn of Aces" and turn the F4U4 into an uber plane that rivals the Tempest here...
The graphics are still stuck in 1995.
The LW fms have been porked since WBs 3 was released.
If you think the terrain is great...look again, there is only 1 map that is even close to AH the rest have trees you can fly under and through.
All of the maps have multiple bases that can be dropped with a single 250kg bomb.
There are only 15 or so people active in the forums and anyone who says anything about problems with the LW fms gets blasted or the post gets deleted.

Wildbills latest gimmick was to offer a CD with a new idea culled from a couple of players on getting started then call it "Warbirds 2009 1/2".

Warbirds isn't bad if all you want to do is fly allied stuff and really bad terrains and almost no one in the main arena doing anything but fighting each other in F4U4s.

Can't wait to see what Wildbill has up his sleeve.

Granted it was probably circa 2005, but the last time i tried Warbirds 3 online, they had spontanious air spawns of drones in the main online arena.   

That's only in Dawn of Aces now.

[Anaxogoras]

All of the maps have multiple bases that can be dropped with a single 250kg bomb.

Do they still have that idiotic "tonnage on target" thing where the bombs don't have to hit any structures to close a field?