Subscriptions for sims were not new nor revolutionary under AH.
AW and many other games were subscription in the mid 90s, IE AOL.
$15 = .50 cents or less per day. If you can’t afford that you better quit everything.
Subscriptions are simple and honest marketing. You get everything for a monthly fee.
We have this many players we make a specific revenue this month. More predictable. Long term.
If I remember right Call of Duty was F2P in the late 80s or early 90s. Its not new. You bought a high priced CD.
Today F2P is bait and switch, a dishonest marketing. F2P as long as you spend a lot of money on every module. Which almost always is more than a sub per yr. You’re not saving money, unless you just buy 1-2 planes per yr. while on sale. Hoping you don’t do the 5th grade math.
We have this many players, but we don’t know how many modules they will buy, more unpredictable revenue. If they buy everything you have or what they want revenue freezes. Hence sales while they dev. You have to dev more to keep a pace to meet payroll and maintenance. It pleases the player, but your biz future may vary. If they stop dev fir s while dumping will happen.
Paint it any way you wish, that glitter game dumped 2k steam players in a few months. Ironically while they dev new modules, and then very buggy product.
That side of the fence is as desperate to save their investment as we are. Its a race. Except, they can do it here, we can’t do it there. “ you can’t stop me” speaks to this. They are lol that you have to deal with it. “We care about this game” but only have one talking point, theirs. Besides where else can they get away with this?
This is a slow lead up to start spamming their title “as example”. Also notice which threads they target. Anything negative, take advantage of bad light. Talk to the disgruntled, easy-in, first “I’m your buddy” they understand their pain, but here’s another option. Start name dropping. They play you as stupid leaving out key points. Thats a con. There are threads where they get mad because they thought they had a good hook setting approach and you didn’t bite, insulting ststts. They are trying to be the savior of saving their own.
Slow manipulation is the constant passive aggressive mentioning that slowly normalizes a thought you think is your own idea in the long run. This is marketing, not looking out for you.
Anyone who points this out is the enemy to the effort. They must make us look stupid. Childish insults. Defamation. The only people who attack me are former players with some form of connection with Trips. A very distinct pattern.
Trips is very calculating, an opportunist, a systematic approach. He’s NOT looking out for this game, its 100% about mentioning his in a select negative thread.
People don’t go to this extent of 1k-1500 mentions in one yr if their is not compensated in some way. He’s at it 8-10 hrs per day, 24/7. Sales.
Anything I did for a sim I was compensated, even when I didn’t ask for it. If one can show their skimming other games like AH or IL-2, you can get compensated for that. Every post/reply will turn to sales. This effort means there is something going south.
Most common things said to me through out life;
1) That sounds kinda crazy
2) (after predicted damage done) you were right.
Its not rocket science, people will go lower than you think, thats how they win. No boundaries. You play by the rules, they don’t
Its not about you, its about them. They aren’t your buddy, they aren’t suggesting things that look out for your game. They are death wish suggestions, like an interview when no dev is being done or to talk about. A snake pit for a hopeful fool.
Ya can’t say ya care about the game while they talk players into spending their money on theirs instead. “Also” is nonsense.
I expect childish of PC warrior insults to make me look stupid. They attacked my advertising videos for 6 mos, that did no harm to them, other thsn drawing players here, not there.
“I want your vid to succeed, I want you to fail.”
