A company gets to choose what it wants to sell: i.e. the game and all of its associated rules.
A consumer gets to choose what to buy.
The company only succeeds if enough consumers choose to buy its product.
Every consumer has an equal vote in determining what is a valuable product. My $14.95 is as good as anyone elses, and contrary to above posts, it entitles me and anyone else paying to ask for anything we want.
Regardless of what I or anybody else requests, HTC reserves the right to sell whatever they want. For HTC to survive at all, they must make enough people happy to make enough money to cover their costs.
Right now, HTC is making me plenty happy, therefore they get my $14.95. But obviously some people are less than satisfied with things they way they are. If there are more people like them than there are of me, I would not be surprised to see HTC stop doing what I like (i.e. the CT), and start making the others happy (maybe an arena full of Me262s and Tempests). I will never say the others are wrong for wanting something different than me or suggesting to HTC that they provide what they want. Of course, if AH changes to the point I don't like it, away goes my account.
But why is it that for every whiner's post there are 3 to 10 anti-whiner's posts that can't just disagree with the original post, but take the high ground and declare the original post is outright blasphemy (burn him at the stake!)?
Most head to head arenas are unrestricted. Yet they are not full of F4U1Cs, Tempests, and Ar234s. Usually I saw tons of Spitfires, N1K2s, and Bf109G10s. While the aircraft in an arena can be regulated by the perk system, should they be? Apparently, a majority of people agreed the proliferation of F4U-1Cs was too high. But that could only be true if the majority were flying it in the first place
What is the difference between having an arena dominated by plane x instead of plane y? Oh, I know what the difference is: guys in plane z have a much better chance against plane y than plane x. So because you enjoy flying your plane z and don't want it outclassed by plane x, everyone else has to fly plane y. I don't see where that is any less selfish than all those quakers wanting to fly Chogs and Tempests at the expense of your fun.
Obviously I can rant and rave endlessly about market pressures and their impact on AH (I just happen to like arguing as much as I like flying). But my own personal feelings can be summarized in one statement:
HTC, thank you for the great flight models, awesome graphics, diversity of aircraft, and most of all a CT where I can fully enjoy them in an environment favorable to my interests.
I have what I want, I wish everyone else good luck in finding a way to get what they want. If that includes "whining" on this message board, no skin off my back, go for it.
Long live the CT, may it only get better.
