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Offline Vraciu

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #135 on: April 07, 2024, 12:44:12 AM »
Not many views on those. Add a few tags to those videos, More realistic than War Thunder. Bigger furballs than DCS World. The hits will be on War Thunder and DCS.

Don't see a video on setting up HOTAS controls. Need one with step by step hand holding instructions. 

Tags. I've made videos haphazardly and usually to help someone specifically. They are very unprofessional. I have only 85 subscribers yet have over 10k views on this video. It's simply the tags/name of the video that comes up in searches. Much as I'd like to believe otherwise. ;)



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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #136 on: April 07, 2024, 11:20:06 AM »

My local grocery did it with Tillamook cheese the other day. They had little cubes of the stuff with tooth picks spread out on a table in the deli. After eating a half dozen or so, I convinced myself to buy a block of that cheese.

That loss-leader stuff works sometimes.

Just sayin'

Did you try anything else? If AH were a store, you could try anything in it for free up to two weeks.

Using your comparison.... AH should have one free plane for a day.

Just sayin'.
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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #137 on: April 08, 2024, 10:19:27 AM »
Has the buy a plane model like DCS and IL2 been discussed?
Maybe you could buy the 40 eny planes for $4.99 and the LW rocketships for $49.99?
Seems to  be working for those sims.

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #138 on: April 08, 2024, 11:27:23 AM »
Has the buy a plane model like DCS and IL2 been discussed?
Maybe you could buy the 40 eny planes for $4.99 and the LW rocketships for $49.99?
Seems to  be working for those sims.

Then the graphics in AH would have to be improved

My guess it's the look and feel as much as the $15 and complex learning curve

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #139 on: April 08, 2024, 11:33:56 AM »
Then the graphics in AH would have to be improved

My guess it's the look and feel as much as the $15 and complex learning curve

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #140 on: April 08, 2024, 12:02:45 PM »
Has the buy a plane model like DCS and IL2 been discussed?
Maybe you could buy the 40 eny planes for $4.99 and the LW rocketships for $49.99?
Seems to  be working for those sims.

There are only a few planes you can buy individually in IL-2. And the DCS planes are in a totally different league in graphics and complexity. Who in the world would pay $50 for something like AH's La-7????  :headscratch:

You would need a new game for this approach (Which, in my personal opinion, wouldn't be a bad thing)


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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #141 on: April 08, 2024, 08:21:32 PM »


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You would need a new game for this approach (Which, in my personal opinion, wouldn't be a bad thing)

I'm holding out hope for this....

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #142 on: April 09, 2024, 12:01:24 AM »

I'm holding out hope for this....

https://combatpilot.com

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Well, I more thought along the lines of a new game by Dale incorporating some of the key elements of Aces High, but with a new approach.
Very unlikely it will ever happen in the way I'm envisioning it, but hey, a man can dream, can't he?  :)
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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #143 on: April 15, 2024, 01:00:14 PM »
Wishlist material.
Ya are asking for rewriting scripts for a new payment method. Ya can’t get basic changes that take 5min-1hr, so this thread is moot. Not goin to happen.

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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #144 on: April 18, 2024, 04:42:24 AM »
Alot of people keep going on about how the game is only 15$ a month. Well that adds up to 180$ a year and no game is really worth it at that point when you think about long term costs.
I played on an off from 2009 to 2017. The quality of engagements dropped with the player counts to the point it wasnt worth it. Now think of this as a new comer,you download a free game see the main server maybe topping 150players on a weekend and the game is asking 15$ a month to play in that server. so thats 15$ for really only 8 days a month when the game is actually somewhat active. Hell i quit because Generally speaking things start loosing interest once the player counts would dropped below 200 back in the day and once that became a consistent issue i dropped the game.From a quick tread of the current state of a forums it seems like this place is just a bunch of crabs in a bucket now and its sad.


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Re: Why not go Free to play?
« Reply #145 on: April 18, 2024, 06:32:27 AM »
Correction.  14 free days.    The premise remains.
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