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Offline Skuzzy

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #105 on: May 22, 2017, 09:41:01 AM »
Steam greenlight has been undergoing changes since its inception.  It has been a moving target.  They deploy it, then they pull it back.  They change it and they change it again.

The registration fee is not the only costs associated with Steam.

nugetx, you really do not know much about running this type of business if you think server costs are all there is to it.
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #106 on: May 22, 2017, 09:43:55 AM »
nugetx, you really do not know much about running this type of business if you think server costs are all there is to it.

I only play games so yes :p

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #107 on: May 22, 2017, 10:42:16 AM »
But if steam takes 30% from sales, so that leaves 70% to developers, are the server running costs higher than what would be from the 70% ? Does steam want more from HTC than 30% ? If yes, then it is understandable, but otherwise the profit should always be +x.xx %
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Good job completely ignoring the fact that there are costs involved.  FYI unless HiTech has at least a 30% margin then there are no profits.  Economics 101.

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #108 on: May 22, 2017, 08:58:50 PM »
Good job completely ignoring the fact that there are costs involved.  FYI unless HiTech has at least a 30% margin then there are no profits.  Economics 101.

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #109 on: May 22, 2017, 10:24:18 PM »
there's at least 7 liquor stores or 711 within 3 blocks of my house that sell visa or mc prepaid cards.  you think that would be enough for this guy


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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #110 on: May 22, 2017, 10:30:07 PM »
If you were following this thread, you know that he said he's NOT from around here.

may not have 7/11s
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #111 on: May 23, 2017, 05:52:18 AM »
there's at least 7 liquor stores or 711 within 3 blocks of my house that sell visa or mc prepaid cards.  you think that would be enough for this guy


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prepaid credit cards are not the standard in different  countries, there is no such thing here

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #112 on: May 23, 2017, 06:12:42 AM »
prepaid credit cards are not the standard in different  countries, there is no such thing here

Quite true.

By the way, we did put Aces High III on Steam.  It was being planned for a couple of months, but we will not do Paysafe.

Still remains to be seen if we stay on Steam.

Personally, I will never load that software on any of my computers.
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #113 on: May 23, 2017, 07:08:40 AM »
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #114 on: May 23, 2017, 09:50:07 AM »
Quite true.

By the way, we did put Aces High III on Steam.  It was being planned for a couple of months, but we will not do Paysafe.

Still remains to be seen if we stay on Steam.

Personally, I will never load that software on any of my computers.

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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #115 on: May 23, 2017, 02:31:55 PM »
Quite true.

By the way, we did put Aces High III on Steam.  It was being planned for a couple of months, but we will not do Paysafe.

Still remains to be seen if we stay on Steam.

Personally, I will never load that software on any of my computers.

As I will not use paypal  :aok
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #116 on: May 23, 2017, 02:43:11 PM »
As I will not use paypal  :aok

I consider that a reasonable thing to do when concerned about security.
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #117 on: May 23, 2017, 06:57:30 PM »
I hope we can keep up to date with all this steam stuff. I have steam and there are 2 games ive played the last few years. AH ive played since 2002...I dont want steam to bite us in the ARSE. If there is contingency plan then we will be fine either way. Id like to fly against someone who isnt a vet every once and a while.

AVA use to be busy and it was awesome I hope to see that come back! 
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #118 on: May 23, 2017, 06:58:47 PM »
IF we get more players via Steam, that shouldn't be a bad thing.
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Re: A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers
« Reply #119 on: May 23, 2017, 06:59:53 PM »
PS  If you ever need an easy victim, I'm yer huckleberry!

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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