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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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by tal@lemmy.today to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wouldn't call a game that came out in 2023 "old".

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!

Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.

Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The game I most recently bought is Trackmania United Forever, still $15 on sale even though it came out in 2008. I suppose my purchase of that is less though than of what they get from a user playing their new subscription based (!) racing game for a year.

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