To HiThech about price issue

[Beeking]

Everybody who plays it once wanna play it forever. It means EVERY virtual pilot wanna play Aces High!
It means if AH has a bit lower price it will have many more players! No?

Also, is hard to make easiest prices for ppl who isnt from USA?? US dollars here makes 2 of our money and im sure this kind of thing happens in other countries. The final AH price here is too high! Dont u see?
Aces High is a international game! Everyone loves it and wanna play.
Warbirds has lots of brazilians and most of them wanna come to AH but cant...


Just a observation, dont shoot at me pls. Im not good at game market, money strategy, and
ok
forgive me, couldnt resist...
Dont shoot!

Peerado

[Dago]

I think the idea HTC has in developing and maintaining this game is not to get everyone to play, but rather to make a profit.

If they cut the price in half, but the player base doubled, the cash flow would stay the same, while alot of the problems would double.  They would have more difficulty I would expect with server overload, double the billings to handle each month, more calls for help and more complaints to deal with.  Why if the money is the same, would they do that?

I think they are looking for a balance of cash billings versus the support required.  Just my thoughts tho.

Dago

[AKSeaWulfe]

<ding> You hear that sound? I heard it.. Dago hit the nail right on the head.
-SW

[tom666]

I aggree with dago 100%.
But i`m an idealist I guess,I know that there are people in some countrys where the average monthly income is $150,and would love to join this community.But giving up one fifth of their salary for a cool game is out of the question.Even americans that raise families,might have trouble justifying the 30 bucks ,added to $20 for ISP and an other 20 for secound phoneline ,and we are closing on the 100 dollar barrier.Just add buying a decent joystick,and the memory upgrade You may need ,and it gets to the point where the John Smith has no chance talking he`s wife into letting him play the game,and he`ll be gone after the 2 week trial,no matter how much he loves AH.

[Gadfly]

Toad-San, it is 15$c for 12 Molsons.  15/12=buck and a quarter, Canadian=45/1.25=36 brews per month Canadian, as opposed to my 12.00$us for a twelve pack of Bud, a buck a pop=30/1=30 beers a month.


As you can see, using the beer quotient, They are truly paying more.  I'll stick with the warmer regions of the continent myself, thank you very much, regardless of the cost.

Edit-AND I can just throw the damn cans away instead of saving them up.

[This message has been edited by Gadfly (edited 01-27-2001).]

[1776]

Kinda makes the $29.95 a small portion of running a home computer,doesn't it?

Wonder what it costs just to support this sim in equipment and lines?

Just think only 6 ppl are doing more then any other sim on the web!!!

Have you seen any promise they haven't delivered on??  What other sim has upgrades as fast as this sim??

No, your money, no matter how much you pay, is getting you the cutting edge of flight sims!!!

[2Late4U]

Doesn't anyone hear think that the people at HT have enough brains in their head to have a good handle on what pricing strategy is/isn't will/won't work?

As I recall the reason they did the "discount" subscriptions was to see if there was a significant increase in people who decided against $30/month.

Its been a few months now, and so Im sure the data is in, and HT will do what is best for them, which normaly corelates directly to whats best for us IN THE LONG RUN.

 

[Toad]

Sorry...I asked about a 6-pack and didn't notice the 12 pack answer.  

[-towd_]

what you want to bet it drops SOON after ww2 onling comes out hehe. assuming it ever does.

[SOB]

 

Originally posted by RAM:

I agree. Completely. At 100%. But the problem here is that HTC chose to give people who had left accounts for 10,15,20 and 25 bucks.

And me, who has been paying for 12 months now (360$), who has been supporting AH since day 1 of 1.0, with only a break of 30 days, I am still paying 30bucks.

SO your argumentation has no sense. There are people flying for 10 bucks out there. I dont see why do I have to pay 3 times that money.

So, are you going to be beating the corpse of this poor horse for much longer?  HTC has already made it abundantly clear what their reasoning was behind that.  You've already made it abundantly clear why you don't like it.  I'm pretty sure everybody gets it now.

Not that I'm tired of hearing about it for the millionth time, I'm just trying to help save your fingers from having to type so much is all.  


SOB
...oh, and to sum up (just in case you've missed it before) - The world isn't always fair & life sometimes sucks.  That is why you have to pay $30/mo when some are only paying $10/mo.


[This message has been edited by SOB (edited 01-27-2001).]

[Uzzi]

 

Originally posted by TheWobble:
i could afford the $30 a month but like many others I just feel it is a very inflated price given todays market....

Can you give examples of games simular or as good as Aces High, as example of that market your talking about? I'd say it's in a class by it's self at the moment wouldn't you?

I say to play a classic and pay 30 bucks a month is cheap...

But of course I agree $20 would be nicer even!

[mrfish]

heh.....my cat pounced at your signature airguard...

[airspro]

  yep mine did too .

30 or 10 , lots don't come but don't stay cause it's far harder here than say FA medium . They won't pay 20 more to get their bellybutton shot off over and over . Then tell their friends and squadmates it all about PRICE  

30 cheap if you are having fun , 10 would suck a big one if your not   think this is what HT was looking for in the price survey . The won't stay even with the lower price cause it just wasn't fun for them ????

 I didn't have that much fun here till I got it in my head that I had to be REALLY close to get a good kill , and BEHIND   I believe lots coming from full HUD games having the same problems too .  

cheers spro

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[Wardog]

AH need to be $50.00 a month plain and simple.

RAM, Hazed and the rest of ya can head over to AW3 or FA for a $10.00 a month Game. Its that simple, you get what you pay for.

AW3 & FA are worth about $3.99 a month if that. AH is worth well over $30.00 a month.

Now lets drop these pricing threads cause it aint gona get ya no where fast.

Dog out.....

[TailLights]

Sometimes they ask $30/month is too much for a 'game'. Then I say,

"Pass/Ticket for swimming(one month) costs twice of AH price. My last Bowling lesson took more than twice of AH price. Needless to say about tennis club membership(per month) that I once had. We spend our money on those hobbies without thinking 'expensive'. but, hey, You mean Those hobbies are far better than AH? What AH lack of than?
AH is something comparable with those experience. maybe you can call it Sports."

 (But I must confess, that they could understand my point of view, but no matter how I tried to drag in to AH, most of them tends to stay in H2H
 

tailight
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