Free To Play with Subscription Combination

[Ack-Ack]

hi

30 days are nothing for this game.

30 days is sufficient for the average gamer to get an understanding of the game mechanics and game play and also enough time for the player to decide whether or not they want to remain after their 30 day trial.  A longer trial isn't going to gain all that much other than free loaders.

[bustr]

Never expected you to call anyone freeloaders. Even you have a limit....

[DmonSlyr]

30 days is sufficient for the average gamer to get an understanding of the game mechanics and game play and also enough time for the player to decide whether or not they want to remain after their 30 day trial.  A longer trial isn't going to gain all that much other than free loaders.

30 days with a free TA/EW and offline AI mode might do the trick. 

In all reality, I think commercialization, like they do with those idiotic phone games, would greatly increase the amount of viewers to the game. Now that WT has made the genre very popular, here is the chance to steal some market by letting as many people across the US know about AH as you can.

[Ack-Ack]

30 days with a free TA/EW and offline AI mode might do the trick. 

Having a free trial and a free arena defeats the purpose of the free trial.  People will just play in the free arena, and will most likely stay there and completely ignore the free trial.

The purpose of a free trial is to get the player a taste of the complete game, all arenas and planes, not a limited view like a free EW arena would do and a free TA arena again defeats the purpose because it does not give the player any idea of what the regular game play is like.

A good way to spread the word is the use of "buddy passes", which is common with most subscription based MMOs.

[myers1006]

Better advertising would get more players.  I love flight sims and military sims but I didn't play this game until 2012,  now I play it off and on.  I think a 30 day trial would be enough for most players to decide if they like it or not, F2P would get a lot of new people to play but the players would be a lot less respectful and just try to ram everyone.

The only reason I don't keep a subscription year round is the $15, if it were $5-$8 I would have kept my subscription active the last three years I have been playing off and on.  To date I have probably paid for about 8 months of the last 3 years, I decide I want to play so I buy a month.  As Netflix and all the other companies found out $8 is generally the tipping point of where people keep a subscription or not.  They could even do tiered subscriptions, $7 a month and you get everything but perk points and perk planes, $15 and you get perk points and perk planes.

[alpini13]

i hate to say it,but the free two weeks dosent work well....when your new,and everything about the game is new. you spend your two weeks trying to learn.  but what really happens is you get shot down alot....and get frustrated,instead of having fun.

[bustr]

30 days for the new player is enough time to decide if the experience is worth the effort. "Effort" is a kind description for our game. AH3 may well have a dedicated 24x7 AI mission arena. I swore during the closed alpha testing at least one of the F4u AI was a real player while I was hanging onto my scalp for 5 minutes. Steal the Sheep no one gets shot down but, you still have to use ACM to evade being put in jail while the jailer has to use ACM and gunnery to jail you. A good time learning those skills with no one getting kester hurt.

Sly devil Ol'Hitech he is......

[EskimoJoe]

First let me just say I am totally against F2P, I think a more effective, check that, a marketing campaign is whats needed but thats all besides the point as I want to entertain your ideas and a thought occurred to me: how about instead of a limited plane availability you had a rotation so that a f2p player would play with most or all of the set but in an unpredictable sequence with the plane changing for each sortie? You'd tease them like that. I think unlimited use of a 205 would be pretty much all a lot of people would need to enjoy the game.

I don't know man, H2H started my addiction. toejam, I wish I could be playing right now actually. It's been a few years.

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[Delirium]

I would add another bonus;

A free month to whoever comes over from a competing WWII game. The folks that are already playing in the genre will prove to be customers for a longer period of time since the interest is already there.

In addition, give perks for anyone in Aces High that refers a new customer, particularly from the WWII genre.

[Lazerr]

A 30 day free trial, with a new media campaign and with the new game play improvements would probably be just as effective, if not more so, then AH going F2P.

ack-ack

Ding... winner.

[grizz441]

mobile games have mastered exploitation of the customer to purchase services as soon as the game become addicting. Focus groups have helped companies determine when a game becomes addicting or the point in which the customer decides he really likes the game and wants to continue. That's about the point the game slows down and you have to purchase in game packages to continue advancing.

Not sure how that applies to trial periods or select planes but it is a proven method that works in mobile gaming markets. I imagine most people can walk away and sleep well at night after 2 weeks of frustration.