You don't like any idea you can't try to take credit for.
Yep. That's what toxic, psychotic, self-aggrandizing drama queens do.
trying to
Sooner or later if you want to grow the pie you will need reach out to others outside this comfortable little safe-space bubble.
Your new players aren't here on this forum. They are out there in that big scary world.
I would put similar comments on Enigma's YT vids. He regularly reviews various MP games out there as his interest is at the higher level of Online Combat Games not DCS in particular. If fact, at the moment he is kinda down on DCS, so now is the best time to try and intrigue him.
I know he was a long time WWIIOnline and IL2 1946 player and I know he is aware of AH, but I don't think he has ever tried it in depth. He has done several videos about legacy games that had playability and quality that modern games have forgotten how to achieve. An analysis of AH in those terms would fit in to that video series. I think AH does some things better than any modern sim. I think there is lost knowledge that was learned over 30 years of combat sim'ing that has been "forgotten" and is having to be painstakingly re-learned by newer sims, like icons, etc. They are having the same arguments over stuff that AH kinda already worked through 20 years ago.
Yes, there is the possibility that he will not just shine you on as say EVERYTHING AH does is perfect and cannot be improved and better than anything on the market. When you start getting honest opinions rather than just propaganda, there is always that risk. But he has always been positive about the gameplay "meta" of 1946 and WWIIOnline and neither of those have better graphics than AH. Putting such comments on one of his current game reviews and maybe even his sim'ing Dark Age vid would be your best shot.
He also may not be interested in installing and configuring such an old game for review. He currently still plays 1946 so that is already installed. He was a WWIIOL player for years so his review of that game was probably just by memory. He is in the mode of reviewing a bunch of currently new combat games out there, but he might not think installing AH is worth the trouble given it's age. But is it not worth a couple of YT comments to roll the dice?
Just one of his videos would get you the visibility of a hundred Masters of the AI vids. Even if he has criticism along with praise, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
