I guess there is no doubt now
You intentionally killed SIM
It was a sad thing to do
Probably kill’t both. Doubt there will be enough of a market for an also ran stand alone sim when you consider switching costs. And yeah it will no doubt cannibalize some WT players.
Well, not necessarily. I have quite a few friends who play in VR and they won’t be switching. After 1, 2, or 3,000 hours of grinding, it’s too much work to change games.
also no modern jets just ww2
My big question is WHY?
What exactly is the business case for Aces of Thunder, and who are the targeted customers and competition they are aiming at?
Basically why not take all that development time and just roll it into Warthunder Sim? Which already has the giant name recognition, pedigree, playerbase, and vehicle inventory?
Do they think this is aimed at DCS, or IL-2 players who will flock to it (and would NOT flock to Warthunder-sim)? I can certainly see the appeal of some of it’s VR focused features, but can’t understand the desire to make it a standalone product.
Or is there just someone important in Gaijin who is championing this concept and is being “exiled” to a separate game so the company has an excuse to rid Warthunder of sim elements altogether? Thus allowing WT to 100% focus on casual/arcade gameplay?
Next, why limit the number of planes so much? I would think if they wanted to arrive with a giant splash and try to dominate the “hardcore sim” world, they would want to launch with just a TON of airframes to instantly one-up any other products out there. Not to mention offering existing WT players to ability to move an existing account with all our years of grinded airframes over there. I’m certainly not starting over after years of WT.
The more I look at it Aces of Thunder’s features, the less it makes business sense.
Until such time they remove VR from WT. From a few i know that use VR in SB. Its barely worked in the past year or so. Typhoon for example. Unusable
Considering it goes from ww1 all the way to the end of ww2 I say they have potential
Yeah . . . and then selling all the war thunder planes as DLCs . . . all the way up to jets?
Well I don’t really care . .good for them
Its just sad that they ruined SIM to do it . . .
They could have done it, with out destroying SIM
Disappointed in you giggles . . . that was just plain mean
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They could have just left it alone and improved the sim mode, damn it.
There’s so much potential, I don’t understand what’s going on at management to make such incomprehensible decisions.
Don’t they want to capitalize on what they already have, which could actually work really well?
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We have BVVD telling us they don’t want to increase matchmaking times, and two days later they announce the infantry mode (which will inevitably split the player base), and then this. Honestly, if they don’t want to increase matchmaking times, I don’t know what they’re trying to do.
They have an ecosystem where everything is already in place, why not invest fully in it? It’s truly incomprehensible.
Honestly . . . I don’t get it . … from what video reviews I have seen . . . its Exactly War Thunder
but with a price tag.
Except for the WW-I birds . . .
and giggles . . .there were no parachutes and no throttle management in those birds.
You should have just added the Great war as Tier 0 . . .like I said a million times
And what’s more, there’s a “flat screen” mode on their new game for those who don’t want to use a VR headset. I don’t understand the idea.
If we were dealing with true enthusiasts (and passion doesn’t preclude making money), this Ace of Thunder would have been a major update for the sim mod.
like, “Here we go, we’ve let you struggle for years, but here’s a complete overhaul of the mod.”
Just read the game description, it’s exactly the simulation mode in fact.
I’m not going to die from it, I’ll keep playing in simulation mode (I don’t play in VR, I don’t like it), but unfortunately, this situation is repeated everywhere in the video game world.
How many developers have gold right in front of them but prefer to dig in the sh*t next to it, hoping maybe to find a vein of diamonds?
What a waste.
That assumes . . .people who actually fly SIM are just going to pay for what they already have for free and over 1000 air craft . .
Its the same maps, even the test flights . . . everything same same . . .
I would think selling premiums in an improved mode would have been a better business plan
Well I guess there are no bombers . . . .
😂
Yet . . .
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Yes, but there’s the famous, irrefutable logic:
If we don’t improve the game > nobody plays it > if nobody plays it, why improve it?
I don’t think so. COuld be the contrary actually.
AoT only I believe only offers a rather limited number of aicraft, but those modelled better. So I’d say most Sim EC players will stay with WT for the variety it offers.
Could actually be the other way round and AoT acting as advertisment for WT…
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Aces seems like a cashgrab that should have been in WTs base.
This was meant to be a ww1 sim at first. now its just WT sim you pay for, without your premium vehicles and no progression on your WT account