Is HTC Investing enough in the game?

[USRanger]

Pyro & Waffle have been busy making me dinosaurs (with frikken rocket launchers) to play with.  Raarrrgh...

[Yarbles]

Yarbles, come on man, get real. You've been registered in this forum for over two years. That's more than enough time to know that if you really want an answer to the question you put forth, your best supply of information is calling HTC and asking Hitech or Pyro to answer your question(s). Bringing the questions you ask to a public forum and expecting or hoping for concrete answers is just plain silly.

What makes you think I am expecting any answers, I thought HTC reads these forumns from time to time. This should be considered consumer feedback or market research if they want it if they dont they will just ignore it  .

[Wizer]

Great game, great staff, great community leaders (Trainers and many CMs), and an ungrateful community.

Well said Delirium.  Anyone bored with this game lacks imagination.  The problem with some is they have the "fighter Ace" mentality of just wanting to jump into a fight, kill or be killed, over and over again; then they yell they are bored.  There are many times that missions are planned in the Main Arena and no one joins them; there are organized squads, many of whom only fly together on Squad Nights.  IMHO these squads could make the main arena interesting with such things as organized fighter sweeps, bomber escorts on high altitude bombing missions (with the objective being the safe return of the bombers from successful bombing missions).  There is so much that could be done by the community to remove the "boredom" factor that some complain about.  HiTech can only provide the platform but if the community does not use it - Is that his fault???

[Max]

What makes you think I am expecting any answers, I thought HTC reads these forumns from time to time. This should be considered consumer feedback or market research if they want it if they dont they will just ignore it  .

OK...fair enough.

At the AH Con, Dale and Doug provided a 2 hr Q&A whereby they stated that Combat Tour had been placed on hold. Many questions were put forth about "what's next". Pyro said that during the development of CT, many ideas were considered...some partially developed to the point they're now in the "garage". By that I assume he meant they're being considered as potential additions to the present game. Hitech commented that anything they consider adding to AH has to be considered and calculated very carefully. Changing one aspect of they game results in consequences with respect to other areas of the game...some of which are unintended and perhaps even detrimental.

I walked away from the Q&A feeling very satisfied that HTC realizes that the game must move forward. No doubt, they're also aware of the players who have left the game due to "gameplay" Really though, if you look at the number of people who've exited on a vocal or silent note, it's minimal compared to the number of new players who've come on board. HTC can control game play to some extent (the reason they split the MA a few years ago) but they can't control player behavior.

My guess is that AH will continue to develop and improve in the near future. In the meantime I'll continue to send in my 50 cents @ day.

[skullman]

I have been here about 3years and have seen alot of changes-nochance of being bored as my squad sees that we have fun-we do fighter games squad an alliance missions bomber with escorts missions-but never bored.this game is what you make it-I have fun and love being with my friends

[Motherland]

I would say they've just made a pretty massive improvement. Just check out the home page.

[WarTooth]

I have great appreciation for all the work that has been done and being done.  Thanks very much HiTech. 

For many of us there is nothing better though than seeing a new plane come out.  There are so many planes and variants that can be added.  Perhaps if a new plane or variant came out every n months like clockwork user retention would go up. 

The n of course has to work for the development cycle and be cost efficient.

WT

[Becinhu]

There are many, many things (air and ground) to choose from to learn/master.  

Commandant Lasard hath spoken.
 

Now where is Lt. Harris....in case you missed it.

[Digr1]

2 Things:

1) There was going to be something called "Combat tour" or something like that. I dont know much about it and never did but apparently its not happeniong anymore. I would assume the effort and energy that went into that is coming into the MA now?

2) Allot of people talking about leaving. Has the game stopped evolving and in so doing keeping people interested. When you are new its a voyage of discovery, but without new developments there is nothing new to learn/master. Is that what is happening and old timers are getting bored?   

My god man, dont you know, your not to speak up against HTC. Thats blasphome around these parts, just give up the CC numbers and take what you get

[NoBaddy]

My god man, dont you know, your not to speak up against HTC. Thats blasphome around these parts, just give up the CC numbers and take what you get

Sounds like some poor fellow got his wittle feelings hurt. 

[Shuffler]

Sounds like some poor fellow got his wittle feelings hurt. 

Yup...... probably about to go to work and hates selling popcorn and candy between movies.

[mechanic]

My god man, dont you know, your not to speak up against HTC. Thats blasphome around these parts, just give up the CC numbers and take what you get

HTC take more abuse (without compaining or banning many people) on this forum than any other business i have seen.

[Ack-Ack]

HTC take more abuse (without compaining or banning many people) on this forum than any other business i have seen.

LOL!  Hardly.  The abuse you see in these forums is just a drop in the bucket the large MMO's experience in their official forums.


ack-ack

[Yarbles]

My god man, dont you know, your not to speak up against HTC. Thats blasphome around these parts, just give up the CC numbers and take what you get

I find it embarassing (for them) how a couple of people have responded to this Digr, but we all have to be patient with the young and less gifted.

However your reaction is interesting and would have been similar to mine say a year ago. It appeared then that HTC was surrounded by a small clique of sicophants but on closer examination I think there is quite a substantial amount of genuine though sometimes crudely expressed loyalty and appreciation.

It was not BTW my intention to be so much critical as inquisitive. I am surpised more people arnt disinchanted after the non appearance of combat tour as people seemed to have allot of expectations that will now go unfulfilled. I never had any expectation for CT as I didnt know about it. I ve heard allot of people are leaving or considering it so I was interested whether this was a cause. I see HTC as a service provider in a market place and I dont know how unique or not their product is. Without HTC there would be less competition and you have to appreciate and value that. You can only judge whether they offer good value for money against what else is available in the market.   

[Nwbie]

For me - real life has taken over, have a few relatives that have lost their jobs, my stick broke and i just am not in the mood to play, just seems kind of weird to play now while all this trickle down economics is happening. I haven't cancelled my account, just waiting for the addictive urge to kick in again.

NwBie