loss of members

[Vudak]

Wouldn't you think there would be a way to allow folks the option to switch to a lower number country?   At the same time not allow switching to a higher number country?  I'd think odds would be the guys who want to fight would switch to balance things out.

Wasn't switching sides to balance game play part of the way ENY was "sold" back in the day, anyway?

Option A: Fly a different plane
Option B: Switch countries
Option C: Log

[Invictus84]

No squeekers. In a nutshell no squeekers.

No squeekers means no growth.  I wonder why? 

Let's see...

- Niche game.
- Dated graphics.
- 90s user interface ("What the heck is a dot command?").
- Little to no promotion ("I don't see it in the Stream store.")
- Legacy subscriber model.
- Legacy distribution model.  ("I can't get it off Stream?  You mean I have to download and install it myself?!?!")
- Entrenched user community resistant to change.

Sounds like a wonderful recipe to attract new subscribers.

Welcome to irrelevance.   

[Brooke]

I am recruiting my two 6-year-old daughters in the game!  The new generation of squeakers is on its way! 

[Tumor]

No squeekers means no growth.  I wonder why? 

Let's see...

- Niche game.
- Dated graphics.
- 90s user interface ("What the heck is a dot command?").
- Little to no promotion ("I don't see it in the Stream store.")
- Legacy subscriber model.
- Legacy distribution model.  ("I can't get it off Stream?  You mean I have to download and install it myself?!?!")
- Entrenched user community resistant to change.

Sounds like a wonderful recipe to attract new subscribers.

Welcome to irrelevance.   

Well, these are all valid points.  But, the game is still a "good" game.  We have a certain amount of goofy stuff that goes on, but not a whole lot.  To bring in modern gamer types, HTC has to increase the allowable buffoonery exponentially.  I saw some new Tank based game being advertised awhile back, had a cool scene of a small tank driving off and elevated position and making a mid-air broadside kill shot on an enemy. Buffoonery looks really cool, it's attractive, cool, and stupid... so, we can have a cool WW2 based combat simulator/game with relatively low numbers (which by comparison, I'd say HTC in it's best days didn't have the base the more popular stuff does), OR we can have another Doober Convention that's really nothing more than a control-complicated FPS.  I mean, lets look at the bright side.

[Estes]

Just a little too late, the big boot of the future has caught up to the game.

[Vudak]

I have no idea how many dormant people are keeping their subscriptions up out there without ever playing, but it sure seems like they're the reason this game is still around at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if the credit cards are getting leaned on over at HTC right about now given the numbers you see in the arenas.

Hopefully, everyone's investment in AH3 pays off, player numbers increase, HTC is a massive success, and order is restored to the universe...

Regardless, I think we all need to think about how we will all treat the new folks coming in... we have one shot at this.





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[LCADolby]

I know of at least 3 people currently keeping subbed but not flying.

[Vudak]

I'm usually one of them too. I'm just hoping enough like what they find in AH3 to keep doing it (or better yet start playing).

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[Oldman731]

Regardless, I think we all need to think about how we will all treat the new folks coming in... we have one shot at this.

This is the most important observation in this thread.  I couldn't agree more.

- oldman

[Invictus84]

Well, these are all valid points.  But, the game is still a "good" game.

No doubt.  My post was not meant to take away from that nor insult.  Just my opinion based on observations.   

[Vulcan]

- Dated graphics.
- 90s user interface ("What the heck is a dot command?").

LOL you've obviously never heard of Dayz/Minecraft/Roblox and so on.

Some of the most popular games right now use graphics they look like they were dragged out of the 90s, and even my 4 year old knows command line input for minecraft stuff.

[Tumor]

LOL you've obviously never heard of Dayz.....

  Ahh, DayZ.  Now there's a game that had potential.  Could have been great... ruined by hacker prettythang***** and CoD kiddies.

[LCADolby]

I haven't seen a hacker in DayZ for over 417 hours gametime.

[Invictus84]

LOL you've obviously never heard of Dayz/Minecraft/Roblox and so on.

Some of the most popular games right now use graphics they look like they were dragged out of the 90s, and even my 4 year old knows command line input for minecraft stuff.

True, but Mindcraft doesn't have competition from similar games with better graphics. Regardless of what you feel about War Thunder or the fact that the IL2 and DCS Sims are not massive multilayer games, they ARE competitors to AH.  As for console commands, yes it's true many other games have console commands, but only the advanced users need use them.  It could be argued that some elements of AH require dot commands, but I grant that in most cases their use isn't required for core gameplay.

At the end of the day, the issue is simple: AH is fun but has dated graphics, a steep learning curve and is somewhat inaccessible for most mid-2010 gamers.  Those elements detract from its appeal.  It's a shame, as the game itself is quite fun with well populated servers.

[JunkyII]

  Ahh, DayZ.  Now there's a game that had potential.  Could have been great... ruined by hacker prettythang***** and CoD kiddies.

I would say a lot of other games almost copying off them(and doing it better) was what made Dayz die a bit....The culling, Rust, H1Z1