I have watched this thread progress from the beginning when I initially made only a comment in response to the original poster of the thread.
I would have to make the arugment that quite honestly it boils down for some to feel the need to be in control of how others play the game.
The List would go on and on.... Zone ENY, More uncaputrable bases, No btarding, No Hoing, No vulching, No Hordes Stiffer rules for side switching, etc etc etc whatever impulse a player feels wronged by in game
And so what I ask is this.....if all the above is changed.....what really changes?
Free Will changes...It is easy to forget that basic concept of MA "IS" freewill..ie the ability of 100's of things to take place at any given moment. Regardless of your personal preference of how you feel about certain aspects of things.
The argument is trying to be made that game is somehow so different that it was before it isn't, the above have existed since game rolled out and still exist today and will be here in the future. Logged on yesterday around 4:35 Central and Numbers were close to 400. The only thing I see different is some trying to impose their will of how THEY want game to be on all others players and HTC. In other words penalize players so they can play the game the way they want to. I don't buy it. I get egged in gv's prob two outta every five spawns yet I do not feel the need to cuss that person out via PM, nor do I feel the need to post on BBS about how game need to be changed just so I can GV without being btarded. I also don't buy the fact that good fights cant be found ever.....if you look around map and simply don't see one.....up a plane or tank and go make one. I guarantee you will find action.
I have said it once and will say it again. Game is what you make of it......quite literally. Enjoy it for what it is
Yes we get it, your happy with the game as it is. I guess there is no need for you to post here then is there. This is a discussion of suggestions on how MANY think the game can be improved.
Also I seem to remember you call me a B@@@@ after I dropped on your tank twice in a few minutes.
HTC does offer things that change the game ...go to their main page and see update after update to game system, graphix, and Planes,Tanks, down right to how towns are won etc. To say otherwise is a lie. What you fail to see is the height of the 500+ numbers days was only when they had a fierce advertising campaign going on, with the history channel before that the numbers were where they are now or actually lower. HITECH had said it was never his goal to make AH the biggest or most profitable ....it was to make combat sim for niche/group of players to enjoy a WW2 sim.
People have enjoyed the game the way it has been for a long, long time and continue to enjoy the hard work put forth HTC and staff with the updates and things they put forth to make game better.
HTC has never had a "fierce advertising campaign" ever. They did run a commercial a few times a night for a while on the History channel, but thats it. Fierce would cover many outlets such as TV, Magazines Flight news letters and so on. Also Hitech never said he didn't want the biggest or most profitable game. He did say he didn't want a big company. I made the same mistake and I was corrected. He is more than willing to make boat loads of money and corner the market in WWII flight sims games as long as his company stays small and in his control.
No its called being a jack of all trades.....adapt, improvises, overcome. If you are tied down to one style of gameplay there is no point
You bought that line didn't you? What ever happened to plan, organize, execute. It's something business people do to build their companies.
I would buy that premise if the above were the reality Dirt but it is not...as a matter of fact AH hired a new worker as of late to help Skuzzy. Sure doesn't sound like loss of revenue to me. Also as I said before low numbers like this have never shuddered AH before so why would they now?......Simply because you think they should?...because you think they need to make changes in how game is played? I don't think so. Also keep in mind the actual # of people logged in at any given time is NOT AH's actual roster of people that pay subscription. Different people log on at different times.
Them hiring someone is a hopeful sin. Maybe it means they are putting together a plan to train and retain newbs with a new web presence and this is why Skuzzy needs help. Yes almost half the people that use to fly when I fly now fly different time zones
It's pretty easy to see that if you didn't capture a base for the month and are ranked in the 3000's in that catagory that that number is down from a couple years ago when if you didn't take any base in a month you were ranked in the 5000's.
What if the Dallas Cowboys were to be able to put 25 players on the field all the time but the other teams can't. How long would people bother to watch football? How long would other people bother to field teams? Sure there are plenty of options, you could run the ball against that cowboys, or pass, maybe try a quarter back sneak or some other back yard play. It would still be fun right? You'd still have millions of people tuning in every weekend to watch the Cowboys roll over team after team. Advertisers would flock to the stations covering the games to bid wildly for time to air an ad..... or would they. It doesn't matter if you field the best 11 guys you can get, the 25 is going to win every time.
I don't know about the others posting here, but I'm not looking to force anyone to play a certain way. I'm just looking for them to NOT play the single way that they always play. If this was war I'd say heck ya we want the biggest friggin horde we can get, with the best uber planes and GVs we can get, but this isn't war, its a game. If people aren't having fun, they aren't going to pay to play it. Pretty simple economics there. Seeing the numbers are dropping, it looks like people aren't having fun any more, and so we get these threads every week. Funny how they pop up on Mondays huh? Get some free time to play, log on and fight a horde for a bit, fight with a horde for a bit, and log off in disgust.
