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Aces High General Discussion / Re: The Damned and Accounts
« Last post by knorB on Today at 10:31:54 AM »
Super ree ree decoder ring activate!


I have no self-control and will continue to post because, reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by hazmatt on Today at 10:16:35 AM »
Well CB is a volunteer customer based effort. 

You support ED by buying their products.

Many of the mod builders \ server admins will have a donation or Buy-Me-A-Coffee thing available.

Someone actually suggested in a thread that ED consider moving to a subscription approach.  Nick Grey even addressed that in one interview.  Bottom line, for a variety of reasons, they have stated ED has no intentions of moving toward a subscription model.

A few surprising outliers aside, I'd say the vast percentage of respondents were against the idea of paying a subscription.  Like 95%+ against subscriptions. 
I prefer to pay rather than subscribe.  Witholding my money until some milestone is reached is my only leverage.  If they were already getting my money in subscription no matter what, even before delivering something, would they be as motivated?

I agree with the 95%. I just think it would be helpful for me to be able to spend my money where I would like to see the development if I wanted to spend money.
For example:
-Dev number 1 is working on developing a plane that I have no interest in. Others have intrest and have an option to donate to see it completed.
-Dev number 2 is working on a plane I am interested in. I'd like to be able to donate (if I want) to help see it through.
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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by hazmatt on Today at 10:09:44 AM »

* The WWII Asset pack made sense for a while at first, but at this point it is working against their interests.


Couple questions on this one. I hadn't heard of it before.
-From what i read you can fly a B17 and drive a Tiger tank with this pack? I thought all this stuff was just AI.
-How is it working against their interests?
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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by CptTrips on Today at 10:04:34 AM »
Combatbox server on IL2 has a support option for their dev. Does DCS offer something like this?

https://www.patreon.com/join/combatbox

Well CB is a volunteer customer based effort. 

You support ED by buying their products.

Many of the mod builders \ server admins will have a donation or Buy-Me-A-Coffee thing available.

Someone actually suggested in a thread that ED consider moving to a subscription approach.  Nick Grey even addressed that in one interview.  Bottom line, for a variety of reasons, they have stated ED has no intentions of moving toward a subscription model.

A few surprising outliers aside, I'd say the vast percentage of respondents were against the idea of paying a subscription.  Like 95%+ against subscriptions. 
I prefer to pay rather than subscribe.  Witholding my money until some milestone is reached is my only leverage.  If they were already getting my money in subscription no matter what, even before delivering something, would they be as motivated?





 

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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by CptTrips on Today at 09:45:43 AM »
Of all the crazy, deranged out of left field crap you spew at people on here


This is the only thing I agree with.

I have only been playing DCS since 2020 and the one constant thing about that game


is the company's horrible business practices.

Depends on what you are referring to.

* I'll take buy to own rather than endless subscription any day.

* They didn't have to go spend years to clean up Oleg's WWII Kickstarter fiasco at their own expense, but they did.*

* Their modules are pricey, but extremely detailed and effort increases exponentially with complexity.  It is not linear.  I think the module prices are reasonable given what you receive especially given how frequent they have sells.

* I can think of pros and cons to the Halfganistan approach.  I haven't taken a stand on that.

* They take too long to produce a module.  Even with the complexity, they have to speed up their process. 

* The WWII Asset pack made sense for a while at first, but at this point it is working against their interests.

* The Razbam thing is unclear.  Everyone is going to take a side even without information. ;)  I think it looks like a Razbam issue at least as believably as a ED issue.  Seems to be Razbam is in some violation of contract on something and ED is withholding payment until Razbam gets back into compliance.  There is as much evidence for that case as any other.  Hardball, but that is business.

* Early Access program seems reasonable given the complexity of some of these platforms.  We had plenty of fun with that APache before FCR came out.  There would have been no point waiting for that.   

* I do wonder if the whole Pre-Pay thing is more trouble that it's worth and will often lead to hard feelings.  As much as I joke about the Kiowa, I've never paid a penny for it so that is a different feeling than if Poplychop already had my money for 6 months.

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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by Animl-AW on Today at 09:37:47 AM »
Pouting and throwing tantrums because they want it now is as amusing as spouting dire predictions while claiming they knew it wouldn't last years ago. All will be forgiven by the impatient very soon and the prognosticators of doom will be forgotten.

You mean the same thing dished out about AH? Sound familiar? What goes around comes around.

I hope I’m wrong, I don’t like watching friends get ripped off due to over-selling a bad system. I said all of this a yr ago.

That said AH was smashed and harmed by DCS doomsayers. Time to take what was put out. Its called karma.
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Films and Screenshots / ***REGULATORS*** Climb REBEL Climb !!!
« Last post by DLO52 on Today at 09:36:41 AM »
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DLO52
First and foremost
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If you make us Jettison Ord its kind of personal ..Expect a FIGHT
If you catch us LIGHT we are probably headed home in that case
EXPECT A FING FIGHT !!!
SALUTE
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Chute
NoTaR
Damn Fun Run In Fellas
Thanks For Watching
HAPPY HUNTING!!!
https://youtu.be/EA45HP4jRa0?si=3yAXZZlowbVwdY8L
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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by hazmatt on Today at 09:28:20 AM »
Combatbox server on IL2 has a support option for their dev. Does DCS offer something like this?

https://www.patreon.com/join/combatbox
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The O' Club / Re: Hey Animl, got some ammo for ya
« Last post by AKIron on Today at 09:22:06 AM »
Pouting and throwing tantrums because they want it now is as amusing as spouting dire predictions while claiming they knew it wouldn't last years ago. All will be forgiven by the impatient very soon and the prognosticators of doom will be forgotten.
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