A perspective from a new player on payment/player numbers

[puller]

 

Don't know if you read the comments from your last thread asking for this...

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,387063.15.html

There is going to be no Steam version of the game...

This is a subscription game...where you pay a monthly fee for everything in-game...there are going to be no microtransactions...your not going to pay for skins or anything else...your not going to pay for better planes or different guns or ammo...

Please search Hitech's posts and you will see the various reasons other than the reason AkAk gave in the thread I linked above...

Your subscription gives you access to everything...what more could you ask for...I know that if this was my game, I would not like the idea of a company skimming off the top just so it can be downloadable somewhere else...

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[The Fugitive]

a better wish might be to go to the steam page and wish that they make a "promotional " page where a company like HTC could have their game listed and steam would make money based on the click though to the HTC page.

[Zoney]

nugetx, I asked earlier and maybe you missed it, I was hoping you would share your in game handle/name with us?  Do you normally fly rooks, bish or knights?

[AAIK]

It's 2017, this game should be on Steam ages ago

Maybe the reality is that it wont have any popularity if put on steam and HT is afraid of that happening.

[DubiousKB]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 Steam would bring in many new players, especially if it were part of the steam sales. Those sales are the sole reason many players have a large game library.

I'd rather have 300 people with it on their computers checking it out for 2 weeks than 10 players online at all times...

Fresh meat!!!!! 

If you're not innovating you're dying... And that's the way the cookie crumbles......

[Ack-Ack]

Steam would bring in many new players, especially if it were part of the steam sales. Those sales are the sole reason many players have a large game library.

Being on Steam does not guarantee increased numbers, it didn't work for Warbirds.

[Vudu15]

most likely he fly's troll....

[nugetx]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 Steam would bring in many new players, especially if it were part of the steam sales. Those sales are the sole reason many players have a large game library.

I'd rather have 300 people with it on their computers checking it out for 2 weeks than 10 players online at all times...

Fresh meat!!!!! 

If you're not innovating you're dying... And that's the way the cookie crumbles......

 

[nugetx]

Being on Steam does not guarantee increased numbers, it didn't work for Warbirds.

Warbirds has been long since dead, it probably has to do with Aces High being more popular,  last time Warbirds was alive was back in 1996

[nugetx]

Maybe the reality is that it wont have any popularity if put on steam and HT is afraid of that happening.

There are people who are waiting for the steam version because they cannot play it currently, so rather it's the opposite

[nugetx]

This is a subscription game...where you pay a monthly fee for everything in-game

Great! I wouldn't have it any other way

.what more could you ask for

For steam, so i can actualy play it.

I would not like the idea of a company skimming off the top just so it can be downloadable somewhere else...

How is it possible that for major companies and indie developers steam is a great platform to distribute their games but for Aces High is not ?

[Ack-Ack]

For steam, so i can actualy play it.

You can play the game without Steam.  Don't see why you're not able to play it without having to use Steam.

How is it possible that for major companies and indie developers steam is a great platform to distribute their games but for Aces High is not ?

Actually it's not, especially for small indie game developers like HTC. 

[nugetx]

You can play the game without Steam.  Don't see why you're not able to play it without having to use Steam.

Because a lot of people like me don't use credit card or paypal but alternative forms of payment which steam provides them.

Actually it's not, especially for small indie game developers like HTC.

Unpopular games on steam on average have 275,602 copies sold. The lowest with 5,658 and the highest with 1,201,136

you can see it all on www.steamspy.com.

Warbirds which is pretty much dead and you could call it very unpopular have 4,756 copies sold and stats shows that in the last 2 weeks it had 1700 players ! (probably playing single player as multiplayer there is pretty much dead).
Just go and input 'warbirds' in steamspy page if you don't believe me.

[Lusche]

and stats shows that in the last 2 weeks it had 1700 players !

No, that's not what they show.
It says:

Players in the last 2 weeks: 1,291 ± 1,787

1787 is the assumed range of error, which makes the estimated number of 1291 rather pointless.

[Skuzzy]

There are people who are waiting for the steam version because they cannot play it currently, so rather it's the opposite

This does not make any sense.  If they cannot play the current version, they would not be able to play a Steam version either.