Do any of you ever have AH AVI or MPG converted films on say a tablet, or, your smart phone and while you are out interacting with friends and other cordial people let them look at what you have fun doing? In some ways it's no different than canvassing for a local community initiative or political figure. You gents appear to want to inspire a grass roots advertising campaign like a whisper campaign. Some products, that was what pushed them over the top becasue of the convictions of the loyal customers.
One thing I didn't think about until recently, I showed my sister in law who is an executive in a large company out of Texas, a tour through riftval in CMEye mode. She had no clue grown ups did things like play online games or created things like riftval. She is in the 50-60 demographic and thought online games were something her sons "used to play" who now have families and no time for games.
We are so close to this process that we may not take the time to step back and get a 50,000ft view. GenI, millennials and GenX grew up on console games and the Internet. GenI and millennials watch online games as entertainment the same way GenX and baby boomers watched the NFL, NBA and MLB. Not all baby boomers owned PC's and if they do, not all used them for more than social media. Aces High is like selling a new alderman to baby boomers, a new car to a GenX, and we already watch Millennials and GenI turn up their noses for a laundry list posted at Steam. Too bad we don't have at least a millennial who likes this game to sell it to other millennials. All the Steam complaints, I wonder if those are excuses becasue they really don't want to play a game with their fathers and grand fathers. Ten minutes listening to VOX in a tower tells you alot about who plays this game, especially with ch7.
Human nature is to stay in places that other humans you perceive like your self are congregating and having fun. People will put up with marginal graphics and other nonsense if they see people like themselves having fun as a group in that game. Early Aces High with no eye candy had a large community while IL2 had eye candy to make your eyes bleed. War Thunder targeted kids with "Free" and a console interface while secondarily getting adults becasue of it's simplicity. Aces High is a commitment from their perspective.
So you are back to selling a commitment to something. There may be a silver lining in this, millennials are getting married and having kids, buying cars and houses, and learning about commitment and how it makes things last. And Aces High is not a used car, it's a classic car.
