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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] -5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you consider X-Plane n as n approaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from a subscription model.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

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.