If you dig around on the WoP sight for their videos you will find some ingame player alpha testing videos. There is one from the bridge of a ship. Graphics looks the same as AH while the waves are taller but the funky bow wake looks the same. I suspect the trailers are on par with japanamation animated features rather than actual players taking films of a scenario to sucker you in by promising you what you want to see.
Marketing in this case is about lieing to you with what you want to see and letting you convince others you have seen the real deal to entice them to follow you back to take a peek. Don't you think that company has worked dilligently to find out what is a general gripe for a generic group of players about Aces High? All they really had to do was register on our forum to run searches and get a few accounts and play AH for awhile. Then throw out some animated HiRes trailers that look too good to be true and there will be AH players taking a look.
Why don't you be honest and tell HiTech you are threatening him with this if he dosen't give you what you want ASAP? There is no other reason to put up a post about how wonderful the competition is while trashing Hitech's game in his own house. Did you come to AH to fight in airplanes or smell the roses and look at the sunset with nuns in the tour bus?
Last I checked the thing is not out of alpha yet. Nasty are you one of about a dozen Aces High players who have been in their alpha all this time? I noticed one very famous AH player is in their alpha.
they ( World of Planes by Gaijin )are hoping to go closed beta sometime in January 2012..... as with any new mmo regardless of what type of gameplay it is, their are all sorts of bugs, glitches, CTD's, freezes, etc..... that has to be worked out........ then their are all those itty bitty problems dealing with different PC setups that different players have, then this then that, etc.....
if one has a Nifty Super Duper Fire Breathing kickarse PC that cost you probably around $1,800+ ( just for the PC only ) if you built it yourself and got all your parts at cheaper prices, then you might be able to run it close to maximum detail..... but it will be one of those 50/50 chances
but as I have always said, these different flight sim games all offer a different aspect of combat sim flying......... some will like while others will not, same can and has been said about every mmo flight sim that has come along in the last 20+ years....
World of Planes will be more likeable over World of Warplanes, world of warplanes ( made by wargaming.net people , same people who have World of Tanks ) is more arcadish and not a true realistic flight model
I have to be / keep a non biased approach, and only view / remark using only facts......... and no one can really compare any of them to one another yet because both of the world of games are still in alpha testing ...... so noone really knows what they are going to get in the final product
I do agree , here lately on the Aces High forum, their has been to many popping in and trashing or talking crap about AH because these young greenhorns think they have just found the holy mecca of all flights sims just because they saw a benchmark or a cgi trailer ...... I just laugh when I see the newer players with their forum accounts 2 yrs or less, talking it up like they have all the knowledge of what is what and why this that and the other are going to be like they claim..... hope I posted that in a generic enough approach
but don't just go by what someone posts, go take a crack/try at any new flight sim that comes along, then judge for yourself....... do you want to take pictures from within the game because they might be pretty or do you want to have some kick arse fun with dog fights and missions etc.... is your choice, but most every sim has always had some sort of what I just questioned..... it just is in a different format.......
edit: I too, like bustr, have noticed a few hand full of Aces high players over there either in the Alpha itself or are waiting to be in the Alpha/just now getting accepted to the Alpha, or are awaiting for the Beta to start....
ROFL, some of these threads crack me up, they always said laughter is good medicine..... these threads are helping me tremendously
TC
