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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A Pivot To Indie won’t save us [AURAMBLES blog] (auratriolo.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Blaze@lemmy.cafe to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18062356

An indie dev's response to NYT's "Games Can’t Afford To Look This Good" and the meme of "I want smaller games with less graphics and I'm not kidding".

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[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago

I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.

These days I don't really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.

This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.

something gets done and completed

I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.

So it's more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you're on is already sinking.