I'm convinced some of the bashers on Steam are AH players. I guess they see it as some kind of zero-sum threat to AHIII.
Well, the zero-sum threat idea is not completely out of line. Much of the work carries over, but a fair bit of it doesn't. Working on WOP specific stuff means not working on AH specific stuff.
People have their pet desires, and anything that isn't working toward their idea of what's most important is "wasted effort". There's a lot of people who feel VR is a waste and they should be making more planes, for example.
As to the stalkers, I've never seen people that just keep coming back again and again to whine about a game outside of Derek Smart on Star Citizen. It's weird.
I've decided for the most part to just sit back and watch. I have my opinion. It is not constructive.
I didn't go deep on the reviews but the negative ones I saw were bug-related and "Japan bias" related which kind of made me chuckle.
Wiley.