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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: MADe on August 12, 2013, 03:30:34 PM
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Brooke asked a question in another thread, how did you learn of AH. I have been think'in on this and I would offer up this.
USAA Casualty Insurance. I'm sure many here have heard of this company, it is a insurance/bank corporation run by ex-military for military members and families. The current CEO is a retired Air Force guy. The company is based in Texas. AH, you should consider approaching USAA and see if they would run advertisements for AH. They send me e-mails, with ads as part of web pages they send members. They will have access to 10's of 1000's of military personal.
Brochures, seems to me that a simple brochure could be put togather, showing off AH graphics, gameplay and community etc. You should then approach organizations and ask if they would display them to the public. The air force museum in Dayton, Ohio, the air and space museum comes to mind.........
different airports..........
We all buy puter parts to play the game. Seems to me that company's such as Newegg would be great places for webertisements.
AH benefited from the fact that the game appeared at the same time as personal pc's took off. Peeps were entranced with gaming and many companies came up. HiTech, FA, Warbirds. Now the thrill is gone, many more games are out, peeps have passed, gone to other games, gotten bored. So AH needs to adapt or slowly drift to nothing. AH must be active in all required business areas to survive, not just coding a 13 year old game.
AH wheres the new game product?
Just food for thought.
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crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,
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I think AH is missing the boat on FaceBook, everyday I open up FB and there is an add for War Turder. I share and Like anything AH puts on face book to help spread toe word, just need more of it than the once a month Ranking post.
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I think AH is missing the boat on FaceBook, everyday I open up FB and there is an add for War Turder. I share and Like anything AH puts on face book to help spread toe word, just need more of it than the once a month Ranking post.
It's a Facebook/YouTube world. I've seen some right nice YouTube vids.
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What happens is when one join's up and keeps getting there butt kicked from say anyone in the Muppets for a year or so they quit .
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What happens is when one join's up and keeps getting there butt kicked from say anyone in the Muppets for a year or so they quit .
so anyone in the muppets can be kick nube butt? I guess you did get better after all :O. Muahahaha
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Anyone in the Muppets can kick anyone here . Me , I'm still in training . Be glad when Grizz get's back to work with me some more .
BTW: Don't be putting words in my moth .
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so anyone in the muppets can be kick nube butt? I guess you did get better after all :O. Muahahaha
I'm the only noob-butt kicker. I get them before they set up their back views.
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I'm the only noob-butt kicker. I get them before they set up their back views.
cowards! Shooting people in the back. Real men f ace their opponent :old:
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You saying real men HO ?
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From Flench down, not 1 word said on post topic!
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Keep getting your butt handed to you and see if you don't quit .
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Keep getting your butt handed to you and see if you don't quit .
I guess I ll never know :old:
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Keep getting your butt handed to you and see if you don't quit .
How come you're still here? :D
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It's a Facebook/YouTube world. I've seen some right nice YouTube vids.
You tube runs ad's now they should have AH ad's made and run for AH on any aircraft vid on Youtube, that may drum up some new members.
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What happens is when one join's up and keeps getting there butt kicked from say anyone in the Muppets for a year or so they quit .
Lies! :old: that's been happenng to me for years I still haven't quit not just Muppets pretty much anybody really.
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crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,crunch,
Best stated
What happens is when one join's up and keeps getting there butt kicked from say anyone in the Muppets for a year or so they quit .
Does your Flagellum never point northward?
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From Flench down, not 1 word said on post topic!
To get back on topic from the Muppet hijacking, here's what I offer up. Every so often someone comes to the BBS and always has some big idea on how HiTech should run his business. For the life of me I can't understand why people do that. It's his business...not mine, ours or yours. We have no clue what goes on in HiTech's head, what his business plan or goals are, nor should we care. It's none of our business.
Maybe he doesn't want 40 thousand subscribers to have to deal with. Maybe he's comfortable with the money the game is making and doesn't want to drop 10s of thousands of dollars on advertising and such. He just got married a few years ago and has a couple of little babies on top of that, so maybe he's kicking back enjoying life and letting the business sit on cruise control for a while.... Hell for all I know he might have a 2nd job at McDonald's and is just too tired when he gets home to fool with all of this. Who knows.
All I know is if some guy walked into my shop telling me how to run my business I'd probably be insulted and run his arse out the door. HiTech and crew have been doing this kind of thing long before I ever knew how to fire a computer up and I'm sure he understands the market for this kind of game a lot better than the average player. I'm almost positive the man has done his homework as far as what direction he wants to take it. Who am I to tell the man what he should or should not do to be successful. He's already achieved more in life than 95% of us around here. So I'd say he knows what he wants and how to get there.....wouldn't you?
P.S. sorry to the OP if this post sounds grouchy. It's not meant to be. Just expressing my opinion. I'm told I'm grouchy when I'm tired (and I'm exhausted)....been a long day. :salute
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Other than the "already achieved more in life than 95% of us around here." I am a +1. :aok
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To get back on topic from the Muppet hijacking, here's what I offer up. Every so often someone comes to the BBS and always has some big idea on how HiTech should run his business. For the life of me I can't understand why people do that. It's his business...not mine, ours or yours. We have no clue what goes on in HiTech's head, what his business plan or goals are, nor should we care. It's none of our business.
Maybe he doesn't want 40 thousand subscribers to have to deal with. Maybe he's comfortable with the money the game is making and doesn't want to drop 10s of thousands of dollars on advertising and such. He just got married a few years ago and has a couple of little babies on top of that, so maybe he's kicking back enjoying life and letting the business sit on cruise control for a while.... Hell for all I know he might have a 2nd job at McDonald's and is just too tired when he gets home to fool with all of this. Who knows.
All I know is if some guy walked into my shop telling me how to run my business I'd probably be insulted and run his arse out the door. HiTech and crew have been doing this kind of thing long before I ever knew how to fire a computer up and I'm sure he understands the market for this kind of game a lot better than the average player. I'm almost positive the man has done his homework as far as what direction he wants to take it. Who am I to tell the man what he should or should not do to be successful. He's already achieved more in life than 95% of us around here. So I'd say he knows what he wants and how to get there.....wouldn't you?
P.S. sorry to the OP if this post sounds grouchy. It's not meant to be. Just expressing my opinion. I'm told I'm grouchy when I'm tired (and I'm exhausted)....been a long day. :salute
That did sound grouchy.
HiTech doesn't need any help defending himself. Having met him and after he kindly allowed me to waste 2.5 hours of his time, I find him to be a fan of the accuracy of the flight model and game first and business model second. I suspect that's why it's survived and why it's base of followers is so steadfast. The runs scored is the business but the ball is the game and if you keep your eye on the ball, the runs will be plated.
He's scoring runs.
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Again I apologize for my seemingly rude post. I do admit I need to work on my tactfulness when replying to some posts.I'm not the most eloquent of speakers in the world for sure. But HiTech never defends himself in these types of posts. I have no idea why I felt the need to defend him other than I just find telling someone how to run a already successful business insulting. I don't know man maybe it's just me but I had to get that off my chest as no one else ever says anything.
P.S. I like your baseball analogy ChangeUp...is quite fitting coming from you :lol :aok
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Fighter Ace folks, how did you learn of, decide to try, then decide to keep playing Fighter Ace? It would be interesting to see if that is similar to how it is in Aces High or different.
Also, how many people were typically playing Fighter Ace at its peak hours?
Thanks in advance for any info on these items.
This is what prompted me to post topic. A question from a HiTech employee.
Uppy,
Please show me where I told HiTech that they were doing something wrong, in this thread, I'd really like to see the printed text. Like others, you ignored the topic and in your case tried to belittle moi. The idea that AH does not want to increase its client base is ludicris. You afraid of more competition I guess.
Brooke asked the question for a reason!
What is the wishlist? Telling AH in an offhand manner that they should be doing something different, and the wishlist is AH's idea.
You had nothing positive to say, maybe you should have said nothing.
I guess its my own fault for giving a dam. I was flying FA till the server was shut down and my screen went blank. Very sad day. I had AH to turn too.
May you never see the same in AH. There is nothing to turn too.
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ps: do some math, say 3000 peeps x $14.95/mth= $44850/mth. I do not know the actual number of paying customers, illustration.
Now lets say 10-20 employees x a reasonable paycheck to live on=prolly more than $44000/mth. again an illustration.
Again the idea that AH does not want to increase client base......................... ............................
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Just to make sure my opinions or questions aren't given more weight than they deserve: I'm not an HTC employee, just a player who loves the game and volunteers time to help with special events (Scenarios and "This Day in WWII").
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cowards! Shooting people in the back. Real men f ace their opponent :old:
So you like sword fights? :O
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So you like sword fights? :O
Well, still better than stubbing men in the back, no?
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Now lets say 10-20 employees
The HTC staff roster is displayed on the splash screen.
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