But... why?

Yeah, agreed X-Plane is behind in VR. That specific use case gives MSFS an edge.

Except that you can continue to play whatever version you want without issue. X-Plane 12 is the current, but many people are still on X-Plane 11. You can remain on old versions indefinitely -- because they aren't games as a service. They're local installs.

I just thumb up everything.

Meme? Thumbs up.

Important message? Thumbs up.

My brother died? Thumbs up. Thanks for letting me know.

As a fellow simmer, all I can say is: please try X-Plane. It needs support and is the best way to make sure the MSFS approach does not become the norm.

Games as services aren't popular -- with a particular demographic. The disconnect here might be that people who tend to play flight sims are decidedly not in the games as a service group.

One reason why I play X-Plane is to avoid this silliness with streaming everything from servers (that, plus the flight and lighting models are better).

Yeah, maybe let's not give the corpos any more ideas

Still using my Steam Controller every day, with two in reserve. By far my favorite gaming controller, simply because of those touchpads. I play a lot of turn-based strategy and doing it from the couch is sublime.

If Steam Controller 2 has touchpads and does something better than SC1, I'm probably in (dependent on pricing).

Yes, agreed, it definitely needs moderation. But I don't think it needs singling out (again, not saying don't moderate).

The bigger picture is a proliferation of online extremist speech in general. And yes, Google may have done well to moderate play store reviews (anecdotally), but they certainly haven't done well with YouTube.

But I would suggest that focusing on any one online forum / store / outlet / etc. will naturally miss an important trend, and the reasons for that trend should be understood -- while concurrently doing everything possible to limit this kind of hate online.

You literally said “what about” in your comment.

Do you legitimately think that any use of the words "what about" makes something whataboutism?

You specifically argued that the problem lay elsewhere

Again, you seem to have missed the point of the comment. I did not deny that Steam needs improvement. Things can be symptoms of larger problems, and calling that out is not whataboutism (to the contrary, the purpose of whataboutism is to suggest that there is no problem with item X -- not that item X is a symptom of item Y).

Edit: clarity

I think you missed the first sentence of my comment. Games have been blamed above other media for years and years and years. That is not whataboutism.

Edit: or the last sentence for that matter.

It's almost like this kind of content on Steam is a symptom of a bigger problem.

I never suggested that Steam doesn't need improvement. There is extremist content being posted. But it is definitely part of a larger (frankly, much more obvious) problem. Calling attention to a root cause is just not whataboutism.

Once again, a clueless boomer blames games.

How about YouTube? Why aren't we going after Google?

What about Twitter? Musk's platform is filled with extremist hate.

Plenty of extremist diarrhea spewing from the mouth of a President Elect.

It's almost like this kind of content on Steam is a symptom of a bigger problem.