Has Warbirds ( totalsims.com ) Gone Dead?

[TBlayde]

The last few days no website from ient, totalsims or any thing related has been loading. Their phone has been disconnected. They charged my card in Sept, but there's been no communications since.

Has anyone here heard anything?

- Dan.

[Lusche]

The last few days no website from ient, totalsims or any thing related has been loading.

Forum still seems to work, though some irregularities have been reported. http://forum.totalsims.com/index.php

[TBlayde]

Forum still seems to work, though some irregularities have been reported. http://forum.totalsims.com/index.php

That's really odd. Until I posted something here *nothing* worked for the last couple of days. Interesting.

[TBlayde]

And the actual domain totalsims.com and ient.com websites still fail. Judging by the age of the forum posts I am thinking the plug was pulled on warbirds. I wanted to give it a try and see how it compared to the quality of AH. So far the offline mode FM is like flying burnt marshmellows.

I am thinking Warbirds is gone.

- Dan.

[Lusche]

And the actual domain totalsims.com and ient.com websites still fail. Judging by the age of the forum posts I am thinking the plug was pulled on warbirds. I wanted to give it a try and see how it compared to the quality of AH. So far the offline mode FM is like flying burnt marshmellows.

I am thinking Warbirds is gone.

- Dan.

I would wait for a few days. Could just be some server trouble.

[streakeagle]

I saw a sticky noting that they were undergoing server changes from 1 Oct to 5 Oct and there are recent (Oct 9) posts on the forums. Not dead yet? It is just a matter of time before Aces High is the last dedicated WW2 air combat mmog. I hope that the remaining market will continue to support Aces High. But it seems those that love history and air combat tactics are fewer in number despite the world's ever increasing population.

[Mano]

The X box is killing online pc games or any pc games for that matter.

[TBlayde]

The X box is killing online pc games or any pc games for that matter.

That would seem to appear true. My trip into the latest upgraded Super WalMart had a 3 foot section for PC games. The rest of the aisle was console games. Very sad day indeed.

As for AH Vs Wb, AH is truly a superior product. I have flown aircraft in RL and WB is *not* it.

- Dan.

[MonkGF]

That would seem to appear true. My trip into the latest upgraded Super WalMart had a 3 foot section for PC games. The rest of the aisle was console games. Very sad day indeed.

That's been happening for a LONG time, and is not indicative of the PC market as a whole. Online distribution services like Steam are where more and more PC is headed, along with the MMO market (like Aces High...)

[TEShaw]

Believe me, I'm not trying to hijack this thread; but, since you mentioned Steam, I just have to say this: Steam sucks.

While living on the road for three months, I dropped fifty bucks to download Napoleon Total War, only to get involved in this Steam garbage. When the game wouldn't open, their tech said update the drivers. Duh.

I've just uninstalled the whole mess and consider the $50 a write off and lesson.

Back to your point about Warbirds: I was involved in the free beta, played it on a Commodore 64, 'Confirmed Kill' and played WB till 2003 when I could no longer stand the Axis/Allies setup. Their people who now run Warbirds just dragged it into the gutter. I assume the people who are still there are Mac users who cannot afford a second computer.

[pervert]

Reading through some of the posts it certainly looks like it is or is very close to the end sadly. It ain't my game same as fighter ace but I would still feel bad if it died just like FA a lot of the guys left seem to put their heart and soul into keeping it alive  

Heres hoping this remaining hardcore will join up to AH same as the FA guys it can only strengthen the game having that kind of player. Another thing people in this game would do well to remember is to be tolerant of the 'squeaker' element of the game, squeakers grow up 'eventually'   the future of the genre needs them.

[Ghastly]

Believe me, I'm not trying to hijack this thread; but, since you mentioned Steam, I just have to say this: Steam sucks.

While living on the road for three months, I dropped fifty bucks to download Napoleon Total War, only to get involved in this Steam garbage. When the game wouldn't open, their tech said update the drivers. Duh.

I've just uninstalled the whole mess and consider the $50 a write off and lesson.

Back to your point about Warbirds: I was involved in the free beta, played it on a Commodore 64, 'Confirmed Kill' and played WB till 2003 when I could no longer stand the Axis/Allies setup. Their people who now run Warbirds just dragged it into the gutter. I assume the people who are still there are Mac users who cannot afford a second computer.

Last I knew, while the arena's were sparsely populated (and most of the "players" reported were actually robot players), there was still a pretty "sound" special events community.  It was my first online sim. On the one hand I'd be sad to see it go - on the other hand, I'd view it as something as a mercy killing.

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[Treize69]

WB has been dead since WB3 was released.

[Wagger]

There are many reasons I left WarBirds.  Those reasons I will not go into.  Like all games you have there are those who seem to make it a personnel crusade to be caustic and irritate others with their shinning personality.  WarBirds does have these people to but on a lot smaller scale.  It seems to be a more civilized community in the way most interact in the game.

[bj229r]

I saw a sticky noting that they were undergoing server changes from 1 Oct to 5 Oct and there are recent (Oct 9) posts on the forums. Not dead yet? It is just a matter of time before Aces High is the last dedicated WW2 air combat mmog. I hope that the remaining market will continue to support Aces High. But it seems those that love history and air combat tactics are fewer in number despite the world's ever increasing population.

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