Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: moose on October 06, 2001, 03:05:00 PM
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I went to dogfighter for the hell of it today
seems they were bought out by playnet. funny that absolutely NO mention of 1.08 is on there.
what a joke. its just another propaganda website now, which is sad because i actually used to put faith into their articles.
no more.
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The dogfighter network has been part of Playnet, inc. for over a year. For what it's worth, Playnet has never sought to control the content of dogfighter.com.
The current move I suppose aims at increasing the users of playnet inc. by having Dogfighter readers sign up there; likewise, the theory goes, Playnet's hordes of users will be more aware of dogfighter's existence.
Unfortunately, playnet's "javascript monster" doesn't work well with netscape, so I'm required to login every time I want to see an article.
The news of 1.08 should be on dogfighter. If you check the last update, however, you'll note that it was 10-05. They probably just haven't put it up yet -- nothing sinister.
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Actually - Dogfighter has been *highly* supportive in terms of the amount and quality of coverage it gives to Aces High. No other flight sim website compares to it in that regard. I was skeptical of the Playnet association, but it's proved to be unfounded.
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Playnet isn't all bad. They've put out Steel Beasts, a tank simulator (the best one I've ever played too). Before that it was sold only over the internet, because it is a shoestring budget game made in a garage by three guys (all army guys, though one is a German army tanker).
Still, dogfighter is rather light on news and information right now. I think this has more to do with a lack of interest in flight sims than their own fault. They don't have anything to talk about.
Hans.