this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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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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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's not enough users yet for every community to have daily activity.

And not everyone who might like a given community, has found it yet.

The solution to both is to recommend lemmy to friends and to post stuff yourself.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah I know, just wanted to make a joke about the posters being patient

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It was a solid joke, my friend!

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly, even with the idea of daily content in mind, I would prefer that we just didn't end up making a bunch of "anyone else stopped playing games cuz job and old?" or "it's okay to quit games. Here's a bunch of totally relatable reasons why tou shouldn't have a backlog" threads and calling it content. They're unoriginal, samey, and sometimes I feel, botted.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it was a mistake trying to recreate all niche communities to begin with. We should have just created larger communities, which over time naturally create niche offshoots.

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think some folks were more interested in rushing in to be king of the hill rather than actually building communities

Kinda the opposite of patient, no?

[–] Skellybones@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah start with the small stuff not everyone what's to be apart of the big community

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say it was a mistake, but it was certainly overly ambitious. It's the fediverse, people are free to build communities how they see fit. But we also have to live with people using that freedom in suboptimal ways. The cream will eventually rise to the top.

[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that users might be split across instances. I posted recently over on this instance: !patientgamers@lemmy.ml

I didn't want to repeat my post and annoy people who might see it two or three times.

https://lemmy.world/post/1977669

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should use the cross posting feature in these cases. It still creates multiple posts, but they all get linked up.

[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure how you’re viewing Lemmy, but on the website tap the icon that looks like two squares overlayed one another, then select the community

[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh right. I've been using Voyager so maybe that feature isn't there yet. Will give it a shot on the web version.

[–] theCheek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this exist on Voyager? I can't seem to login to lemmy.world via web browser as it never seems to acknowledge Ive logged in!

[–] cod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t believe so. I mostly use Memmy and I don’t think it’s on that either. Cross-posting isn’t like it was on Reddit though, over here it basically just makes a new post with the same content in a quote, then sites the original post up top

[–] verycoolusername@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I actually see that there is a lot of potential for a high quality sub because the posters seem to contribute often, and with intelligrnt content. Will try to post more myself, I love patient gaming

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll post tomorrow, pinky promise.

[–] gonta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'll patiently wait for your post.

[–] Voyajer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a matter of hours now ...

[–] cod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It’s been 8 hours 👀

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

You can only post in communities that are at least five years old.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm excited for 2030 when Starfield will finally be on sale for $15.

[–] Kikkertje@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's been way too quiet here. Where is everyone? I don't want to go back to "that site"

[–] Dirk_Darkly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes you need to be the content you wish to see.

[–] Kikkertje@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why I'm commenting, but we need more people.

Bring your friends. And if you don't have those, post about this sub on other subs.