Make Aces High Available on the STEAM system

[K-KEN]

Steam would never work from what I am seeing.

Steams purpose is to sell products on-line with a method of making the distribution secure with out the CD. I.E. I would bet products like EQ still do there own updating.

AH on the other hand is a free distribution unlike the other products. And hence steam would not be interested.

HiTech

I cant comment on the cost/benefit side of things because I dont work at HTC and I dont know what it would actually take (cost) to involve a distribution system like Steam.

That said, any other, similar sort of distribution service would surely spark a great deal of interest.

Since the prospect of new players is obviously appealing from a business perspective - I wonder if HTC has ever considered something as simple as a Fileplanet promotion.  

I am guessing and hoping that Hi Tech will pass on any outside vendors or promos that would not be in the community and HTC's best interest. Having sailed on the Air Warrior ship and the Good Ship HTC, I'd rather walk the plank than see it get hooked to some other entity.  Advertising on the History Channel and word-of-mouth does some recruiting. I also link him on 2 of my sites. While I am no huge hit magnet, I hope I promote folks to click the links now and again. Co-Workers know I fly Aces High and over the years I have brought on new folks.
Try promoting friends and family and then we won't need no stinkin' STEAM

[Kazaa]

I loved the two week free trail of AH2 when I was a noob, I almost wet my pants when I didn't have to pay for the software. I've been hooked since.

[guncrasher]

I am guessing and hoping that Hi Tech will pass on any outside vendors or promos that would not be in the community and HTC's best interest. Having sailed on the Air Warrior ship and the Good Ship HTC, I'd rather walk the plank than see it get hooked to some other entity.  Advertising on the History Channel and word-of-mouth does some recruiting. I also link him on 2 of my sites. While I am no huge hit magnet, I hope I promote folks to click the links now and again. Co-Workers know I fly Aces High and over the years I have brought on new folks.
Try promoting friends and family and then we won't need no stinkin' STEAM

well said K-KEN,  If i was with AW from when it moved away from aol till it made it to gamestorm then it dissapeared.  I prefered to deal directly with the source, no middle man, beside If i wanted to play other games I already have pogo

semp

[bj229r]

I remember Skuzzy saying  detrimental things about Steam some years ago, mostly of a technical nature....he tends to be correct about these things

[OOZ662]

I remember Skuzzy saying  detrimental things about Steam some years ago, mostly of a technical nature....he tends to be correct about these things

Now I'm very angry that I can't find the picture he posted years ago...

[guncrasher]

we can all visualize the one finger ok for steam 

semp

[gyrene81]

Nothing, absolutely nothing.  The only thing it would bring is increased cost for HiTech and crew with very little or nothing in return.

ack-ack

+10



Looks like a lot of these "let's use steam" people have no clue why the steam system exists in the first place. It started out as Valve's way to manage licensing on their games, provide single point updating/patching and provide some measure of anti-cheat protection. The steam system was designed for first person shooters...not flight sims. It's currently a way for developers other than Valve to market their old games and a way for Valve to make some extra cash.


Steam sucks unless you're playing Half Life or some other old FPS.