I agree personal responsibility in posting behavior is the goal. But with the internet, even this smaller subset, I think the only way to truly build that has to come from steady and consistent moderation. There's a reason you don't see personal attacks on this board, or slurs, etc. A line was drawn and that shit was shut down quickly and consistently. Even console warring is much less an issue than a lot of the internet for similar reasons.
I think a way to move things in a better direction is for The moderation team to treat EGS, Gog, steam etc in the same vein as what console warring and moderate accordingly. You may disagree that it's the same but the fact remains it needs to be treated as such, because people posting about it are behaving as such. It's time to deal with the reality of the situation. Each of these "launchers" has built up its own ecosystem with their own friends lists, you're not necessarily able to play together across ecosystems, they have different features, etc. The difference is a pc unlike a console can run multiple ecosystems simultaneously. But the fact remains people will have a preference because of it. In addition and you have one upstart "console" actively pulling anticipated games announced for one "console" to another. In Many cases right before release.
I understand how this became a blind spot when EGS came onto the scene. We hadn't seen anything like this before. But this is where we are now and more needs to be done besides "See Mod Post". it's not going away anytime soon
- So new game announcements that are EGS exclusive, need to be treated like any 3rd party game announced exclively to a console. No steam "port begging". No "game is delayed a year. Or see ya in a year post". No steam discussion at all. No meta commentary, keep it about the game itself. Same with when it launches
- When a Mechwarrior 5 switches to EGS from steam close to launch moderate it like if suddenly a game moved from PS4 to XB1 or vice versa. Shut down any "it's just a launcher talk". Shut down the posters smugly stoking the fires about how above it all (which just makes it worse) or wandering in going "I don't get the big deal".
- Likewise shut down the virtrol from the ant-EGS side. You can have discussions without everything billing down to F Epic or whatever. I've seen it you just usually have to wade through a lot
- Also just like console warring you know the instigators are that always show up on each side of the argument. So watch for them and don't let them start fires
