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Bishop_360

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« on: January 30, 2001, 07:11:00 PM »
I had my 2 week trial of Aces High and really loved it.   But I can not justify $29.95 per month!  I know to have a game this good, and I do believe it is by far the best online sim out there, you have to charge appropiate, but ouch!  $359.40 a year.  

Is there any other options out there?  

Offline Rocket

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2001, 07:19:00 PM »
At the moment that is the only option other than flying the free H2H.
In the following posts you will see all kinds of justifications for 29.95 or higher.
The main thing is it costs HTC alot of money just for the servers and the line for us to play on let alone the programming time.  I think that alone is enough for the 29.95.

Is there 1 perk in your life that you can give up in order to play?

The game is worth it and very addictive.
But I am one without an endless bank account so I can understand totally where ya come from.

S!
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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2001, 07:29:00 PM »
lets see how much time lasts this thread before the "I want to pay 50$" lobby comes up  

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2001, 07:55:00 PM »
Damn, and you have been so good for a month and a 1/2. Ya just started to gain my respect.

I guess old habits are to hard to break, to bad.

Dog out..

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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2001, 08:48:00 PM »
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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2001, 09:29:00 PM »
Well Bishop, what you have here is a company of 6 people - just 6 people - dedicated to one aim - making the best sim possible. They are not trying to make everyone happy, therefore thier custumer group is limited to only those intereted in the most realistic sim they can find.

They provide quality product and constant support ( show me a sim that adds planes every month   ) and server for us to play on. And there are great many other wonderful things coming too  


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SwampRat

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2001, 09:39:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by fd ski:
show me a sim that adds planes every month  

Hey thats one heck of alot of planes after awhile!!....Flying Boat eventually? lol

Swamp


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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2001, 12:40:00 AM »
"Is there any other options out there?"

IF you are asking if there's other online flight sims, then yes.  They vary in price from about the same as this game to considerably cheaper.  They also tend to vary in quality somewhat, but value per dollar spent is what matters most--especially if you're on a tight budget.

In the name of good taste i will not provide links to the alternative online flight sims on this messageboard.  Email me and I will happily send you the website for every other major online flight sim available.


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IF you meant as to whether there are various "pricing plans" available for Aces High, then unfortunately the answer is no.  It's an all-or-nothing deal, excepting the 8 player arena.

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2001, 02:26:00 AM »
the best other option really is not out yet if ever . go to playnet.com and register for a account soon the ww2 online game is comming out to open beta .all the other options have unacceptable flight models ( at least to me) still remains to be seen how good the ww2online model will be . probly price of ah will fall about then also   .

MrSiD

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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2001, 04:40:00 AM »
LOL its so funny reading the 'WW2OL' cheerleaders putting every other ww2 flight sim down (they're forgetting the small thingy of not ever even trying the game themselves..)

Any reasonable logic should tell those people that no matter how good the intentions of the programmers are, since it focuses on 4 different area of simulation instead of 1 on flight sims, the level of accuracy is more than likely compromised.

And the updates + fixes should come in a far slower pace since there's 4 areas to fix all the time. (Well, I don't think anyone can beat WB 2.xx update pace, even a turtle will outrun them, heck 2.77 still isn't out.)

Anyway, what I really think AH needs is two things ripped fom (but not owned by) IEN and warbirds. Those are:

Historical Arena <--- I like it the realist way, planes of same age period doing the fights they actually did in the ww2 arena.

Right click 6 call <--- another very good idea, which really could have a lot of use.

Early war planes <--- historical arena not possible without those.

Personally I'm not appealed at all to the main arena mentality, it forces people to fly a certain set of late war uber planes, which (as repeated on ubb over and over again) does not exactly improve diversity and gets dull very fast for people like me.
I mean, hello.. All the chog whine would be dealt with if the chog would only be available on the last couple days of the RPS. No more 30% of kills BS on BBS (eh.. notice the resemblance..)

I think the people who yell 'perk this perk that' really want some control in the planeset --> HA. We've all seen it in WB...

WW2 arena came, handful of main lovers whined to death.. But everyone chose to fly ww2. There's no questions left.

sky_bax

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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2001, 05:13:00 AM »
"Well, I don't think anyone can beat WB 2.xx update pace, even a turtle will outrun them, heck 2.77 still isn't out."

He he  

And I suppose working on WBIII for 12 months and having no intentions on putting out a 2.77 for 11 months would have anything to do with it.

Silly Sid.

2.77 took only a few weeks, and is out.

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2001, 07:53:00 AM »
"2.77 took only a few weeks, and is out."

Impress me. Tell me what it brought.

-Westy

Ice

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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2001, 08:00:00 AM »
Ram....

I would pay $50.00/month for AH...I believe it would have a cleansing effect...catch my drift

Cyas

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2001, 08:03:00 AM »
Do what I do, Thursday is recycle day. Head out around 3am (or better, send your kid out)and start collecting the aluminum cans. Stop by 6am or sunrise. Do this for the first three weeks of the month and you'll have AH's money. Helps to wear old clothes and limp a little.  

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Had 2 Week trial, loved it, but $29.95 per month?
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2001, 09:11:00 AM »
You guys have to pay to fly AH?  I've been flying for months without paying...... of wait wait I put in on the company credit card -evil tax write off grin-

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