If EW rides are free at least that won't scare everyone averse to subscriptions away. You'll hook some who will pay. The rest are targets.
and then AH will get flagged as a "P2W"(pay to win) game amongst steam and many other game communities this would be a very bad choice as this can quickly result in a dead game as many.. other companies have learned not to mention the comments that would be posted on steam would quickly turn people away and also not leave "hitech creations" as a company name in good standing with a few communities as they would associate it with being unfair and all about money.. which.. they are neither
as well the same with the "the rest are targets" logic.. so you want new people to be in slow targets for all the la-7 "ho tards" the P51 "runstangs" and your general high alt pick tards and spits and the invincible yak 3(just a guess no one has chosen to fly anything else yet) not to mention most.. EW planes can hardly catch up to set of buffs(this was a problem EW) so.. bringing new guys in purely as fodder to convince them to pay.. brilliant(though i think this is what got us in this current situation) lets repeat!...not really... this.. is what drives people away from a game(key word) not simulation(also this game would be classed as a MOBA"massive online battle arena")
reality is subscription wont scare people off it never has with a subscription people get guarantees vs games that are "Free to play" that are currently struggling from key things.. like support,bug fixes,new content,server maintenance and performance, in that same aspect a lot of new games are going the subscription based route so they have a steady income to be able to provide the above better