What reasons you still play?

[texasmom]

repost!

I play because my wife bought me this cool japanese wwii pilot outfit. Soooo before i log on, i put on my "uniform" grab my japanese flag in one hand a glass of saki in the other. I then start screaming all the japanese i know, very loudly in quite the menacing tone. At this point the kids start getting scared, which in my mind means im "ready".  I then start my flight, most the time i just get hoed by some niki, in a very
nasty manner i might add, resulting in me throwing the cat across the room, really hard. So take note: when you ho, a cat may die.
so, i just fly for fun and because i hate that cat.
zuii

LOL!!! 

[Slate]

   I've always been a WWII fan and love the history of our country at a time when the USA and it's warriors were the only ones that stood between evil Tyrants and world Domination.  To some it's only a game but it puts you in the shoes of those Pilots and teaches you the limitations of a particular aircraft. It Challenges your Brain (unlike the boob tube) with tactics and trying to get better than that pilot that Hoed you. Once you get your first kill you're hooked. When my Wife says go play your game I respond and Correct her "It's a Simulation".  

[BillyD]

Face it we're a bunch of sick sick people. It's way more thrilling when you pull that trigger and there is another person on the other end. Can't do that in real life no matter how much the ( insert whatever )  piss you off. 

Ok, J/k. ( maybe )

The folks I "fly" with are really cool, that's why I come back plain and simple. Outside of my family life and work stuff the POTW channel is a nice place to just relax and curse alot and furfill my dorky obsession with combat aircraft I've had since I was a kid. Waystin described it best, its like Cheers, where everybody knows my name do do do do do do......doooooo 

[Wolfala]

Sometimes, its just to see what I can get away with. For instance, taking 3 P47N's - loaded with gas up to 30k and flying all the way to HQ, baiting 163s and staying at 400 mph the entire time through their territory uninterceptible - just to piss someone off. I think someone said that was the point of this game - as a massive mind diddly.

[LYNX]

  I've always been a WWII fan and love the history of our country at a time when the USA and it's warriors were the only ones that stood between evil Tyrants and world Domination.  To some it's only a game but it puts you in the shoes of those Pilots and teaches you the limitations of a particular aircraft. It Challenges your Brain (unlike the boob tube) with tactics and trying to get better than that pilot that Hoed you. Once you get your first kill you're hooked. When my Wife says go play your game I respond and Correct her "It's a Simulation".  

And there's me wondering why it was called World war....God bless...Hollywood 

[Chilli]

Besides, the game design, features, and updates   I am stuck with flying with my squadees Gruppe Outlaws (past and present) for over 7 years now, and wouldn't have it any other way.  I generally fly Rooklyn and have good friends there that stretch even longer back to when everything was a "cheat"   (How did your Hurricane catch my Tempest?  How did your JUG out turn my Spitfire?  How do you keep killing my tank and I can't see you?)

I don't ask those questions anymore, because if you ask with the right tone, there are great folks here that can break it down and give you insight and even the correlation to actual pilot tactics and how employed.  I guess to sum it up, I learn something, both about human kind and about skills and discipline it took the Aces in World War II to survive and claim victory.

  Chilli

[Max]

<--- rank, scoring, making fun of people on ch 200 and irritating my wife by wasting time  

[Motherland]

And there's me wondering why it was called World war....God bless...Hollywood 

Didn't you know? The UK, USSR, Australia, France and China and all the other Allied countries were only there for morale support.[/sarcasm]

[Becinhu]

Because it makes my wife mad. My squaddies and FSO as well.

[Anaxogoras]

Squad play and FSO.  If we go another update without the He 111 I might just have to quit, though.

[Slate]

Didn't you know? The UK, USSR, Australia, France and China and all the other Allied countries were only there for morale support.[/sarcasm]

Without US aid all those countries would have been rolled over (France WAS) God Bless the US

[Anaxogoras]

80% or more of the German military was destroyed by the USSR.  Simple fact, but always glossed over by American history.  The D-Day invasion was a side show in comparison to the fighting in the East.

[Motherland]

Without US aid all those countries would have been rolled over (France WAS) God Bless the US

Without the help of the USSR we may have been rolled over by Germany... or without the help of the UK... even without the help of the French and Polish partisans, Chinese, or Australians... and certainly, many, many more American servicemen would have been killed.

[smokey23]

I stay with it because of my guys I started my squad years ago with 1 other player and after awhile it grew and grew now close to 3 years later i wouldnt change a thing its always somethin new and if i get bored flyin the same old thing i'll change it up and have to learn somethin else. my squaddies make it fun its like an extended family to me.We started flying FSO and that opened up a whole new way of playing.<S>

[Slate]

  Ok Ok we all did it together! Woo Hoo!   But at least we gave back our half of Germany and Freed it's Citizens to prosper unlike the years of Misery that Socialists have caused.