I for one find it quite confusing. It's obvious that the drop in players/subscriptions
has been continuous over the past five or more years. Yet there's been next to
nothing major that's really been changed in gameplay over all that time.
I see lots of posts about the "community" of Aces High, but I don't buy into that.
It might be a "community", but if HTC's a part of it, they don't seem to participate
in it to any extent, save for brief, knee-jerk, replies to posts which Hitech finds
offensive. And I "get that". It's his baby. But some fun and interesting postings
I think the forum community in general would very much like to see and read.
I give major kudos to HTC for updating the game engine. I know for a lot of folks
that's a huge improvement...graphically.
But the bottom line is that the "gameplay" itself is stale and geared seemingly to
encouraging the now prevalent "hide in the ack" crowd and the wirbel-dweebs;
a constant source of frustration for most people and another reason why people are
leaving AH.
I guess what I'd like to see, and keep hoping to see (but don't) is HTC actively
participating in gameplay discussions and/or flying in the LWA so they could
get a better grasp on how the current arena/strat settings are working out.
I just perceive that they've lost touch with the game as it currently is.
I want them to succeed. Very much so. And I'm fervently hoping that
beyond the graphics in the new engine, some new/modified gameplay features
are incorporated into that.
I'm not much of a flight simmer, myself. Air Warrior and Aces High are the only
flight sims I've spent more than an hour playing in the past two decades. (With
LONG breaks thrown in here and there.) But lately, I've been hitting some
"Flight Sim" websites looking for news/interviews about Aces High and the upcoming
new engine, but have drawn a blank.
Do any of you hardcore flight simmers have any "flight sim news" type websites
that contain anything relative to Aces High? (Within, say the last two years.)
Regards, Odd