State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey

[Spikes]

But that doesn't explain why AH can't seem to attract new players to replace them.

It wouldn't have to be explained if there wasn't so much dumb-assery in this thread.

[CptTrips]

It wouldn't have to be explained if there wasn't so much dumb-assery in this thread.

Are you saying this thread is why AH hasn't attracted new players since 2009?

[CptTrips]

Maybe because those who had a serious interest in WW2 are too old or dead.

FLightsims are a niche and certainly WWII is a niche in that niche.

But someone with money is backing CP with seed money.  They are risking money to start an entirely new greenfield franchise in the WWII space.  I guess they still see sufficient interest in the genre to justify that investment.  Nothing like cash as a vote of confidence.

[AKIron]

There isn't a significant hardware difference between AHII and AHIII. I don't buy that as a reason for more than a few dropping out.

[DmonSlyr]

I think there are many reasons TBH. 0 marketing. Then when they do find out about it. Oh there's a subscription to play, then if they decide no big deal, they try the game. Then they see the graphics (if coming from DCS or WT it seems old and arcady). Then if they get that far have to figure out how to set up joystick/mouse ect just to fly. Then once they are in the air, get rick rolled after 10 minutes of climb out by 2CMEX in their noob mode tempest along with all the vets in their spit16s. Then if they are still there after that, they realize "damn this is a tough game do i want to continue $15 a month. And from there, they either want to learn how to be a successful online pilot, or log and try to learn another flight sim. TBH, all of them have learning curves and if I must say, AH is probably the easiest to see where the action is and find a fight, but again, constantly flying against vets in their easy modes makes the game so much harder for noobs to not feel like they are wasting their time.

[Spikes]

Are you saying this thread is why AH hasn't attracted new players since 2009?

The constant merry-go-round from people who haven't played this game in years certainly doesn't help and is quite exhausting. I don't see the need to endlessly compare AH to these other various games. AH and IL2 weren't even originally designed to be direct competitors.

There isn't a significant hardware difference between AHII and AHIII. I don't buy that as a reason for more than a few dropping out.

Well the recommended processor speed went up 35%, RAM doubled, and video card specs quadrupled. What is 'significant' to you?

[Animl-AW]

The constant merry-go-round from people who haven't played this game in years certainly doesn't help and is quite exhausting. I don't see the need to endlessly compare AH to these other various games. AH and IL2 weren't even originally designed to be direct competitors.
Well the recommended processor speed went up 35%, RAM doubled, and video card specs quadrupled. What is 'significant' to you?

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1) attempt to irritate players like Animl
2) to finally be able to convince AH is dead, and BTW DCS WWII is lacking seasoned pilots, come over here “brother”.

Everyone knows what this group of former players is up to. Cordial doesn’t work, they play by different rules. “ you can’t stop me”.

Do not debate thier talking points, they are idiotic attempts to make you keep this thread on top. And they’ll judt repeat them 200 times in different context.

The redit thing was a setup to discourage.
Same as any interview with HT.

These guys should put on old farmer lady dresses because they make old biddies look good. Evidently, they avoided maturity with great success.

Its a lot different ehen others mention other sims, this is not the same.

Because of ongoing patterns what these guys need is the boot. This is the core of the last 3-4 booted.

[AKIron]

The constant merry-go-round from people who haven't played this game in years certainly doesn't help and is quite exhausting. I don't see the need to endlessly compare AH to these other various games. AH and IL2 weren't even originally designed to be direct competitors.
Well the recommended processor speed went up 35%, RAM doubled, and video card specs quadrupled. What is 'significant' to you?

Recommended and required often have a wide gap. What was the difference between the requirements? Is there no configuration that would allow AHIII to perform similarly to AHII?

[AKIron]

m

1) attempt to irritate players like Animl
2) to finally be able to convince AH is dead, and BTW DCS WWII is lacking seasoned pilots, come over here “brother”.

Everyone knows what this group of former players is up to. Cordial doesn’t work, they play by different rules. “ you can’t stop me”.

Do not debate thier talking points, they are idiotic attempts to make you keep this thread on top. And they’ll judt repeat them 200 times in different context.

The redit thing was a setup to discourage.
Same as any interview with HT.

These guys should put on old farmer lady dresses because they make old biddies look good. Evidently, they avoided maturity with great success.

Go away troll.

[Animl-AW]

Go away troll.

Projection
We all know you’re the former player troll.

This thread is a troll

 Beat it idiot

[AKIron]

AH III requirements are obviously easy to find and are below. So AHIII came out in 2017? That would make the stiffest hardware requirement there a 9 year old video card at that time.

[AKIron]

Projection
We all know you’re the former player troll.

This thread is a troll

 Beat it idiot

If you're gonna show your bellybutton here in a blatant attempt to derail a thread don't be surprised when the favor is returned.

[Spikes]

Recommended and required often have a wide gap. What was the difference between the requirements? Is there no configuration that would allow AHIII to perform similarly to AHII?

Minimum to minimum is:
Double CPU requirement, double RAM requirement, double GPU requirement. Recommended becomes the minimum, though I feel it is disingenuous to advertise there's 'no significant difference' when a player goes from playing a game on normal settings fine to struggling to play on low settings.

With that said, I had little empathy for folks who couldn't continue to play AH on their Compaqs.

[CptTrips]

The constant merry-go-round from people who haven't played this game in years certainly doesn't help and is quite exhausting. I don't see the need to endlessly compare AH to these other various games. AH and IL2 weren't even originally designed to be direct competitors.

Shrug. 

Then don't open the thread.  No one forces you to read it, or post in it.

[CptTrips]

Projection
We all know you’re the former player troll.

This thread is a troll

 Beat it idiot

So angry, yet so powerless.