Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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How to revitalize this sub? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I dunno I never really fit in that sub because I am not only a patient gamer but I also don't care to play every game under the sun. I'm patient because I don't spend money on upgrading my rig and because I enjoy playing 1 game for 1000 hours rather than 100 games for 10 hours. I just beat MHW: Iceborne recently and like, that's pretty cool. I might buy the new Diablo 2 update some day maybe. What else do I gotta say?

I need to find an appropriate community to vent about microtransactions in mobile games. I just dipped into that world since I have more downtime out of the house, but I'm pretty disgusted with the quality of mobile gaming right now. What happened?!

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mobile games have basically always been like that. It's practically Shovelware: The Industry. They're cheap and quick to make compared to other games and mtx make crazy money, so they're basically the equivalent of those cheap Chinese clothing brands that pop up out of nowhere for a month on Amazon and then change names to something like Zivaldie.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was really disappointed by mobile games on Android when I jumped on that, though some of it is just that the things that I'd call at least halfway decent are also released on other platforms.

I would recommend looking at Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which a roguelike aimed at a touch interface that's open-source, free, and on F-Droid. I'd call it the best open-source Android game that I've played.

The creator even hopped over here to !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 7 months ago

You sound like you might enjoy a Steam Deck. So many great games available on PC, you don't even need to take a glance at any micro transaction infested games.