Wait 3 years and post when upvotes are cheap.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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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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I always wait for vote sales. People preordering upvotes are crazy
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I've got a whole library of upvotes that I haven't even used yet.
Don't forget to make sure it's a "complete" or "GOTY" post, nothing worse than waiting for a mediocre deal on an incomplete post
I agr
Also all the spelling and gramatical errors will have been fixed by then.
I am very patient, so I'm in no rush for this community. Time only gives us more content,
A low effort post day would help. Meme Monday or something.
I liked the weekly/bi-weekly „What are you playing“ posts, but they seem to have stopped, even on the bigger „games“ subs.
I‘d post about games I‘ve played lately (like Unravel) but I feel like „was a cool game with a cool style which made me enjoy the graphics even today and was interesting to platinum“ doesn‘t start much of a discussion.
Maybe I‘m just jaded by Reddit‘s „ackshually“ culture that jumps on you if a post‘s not a well thought out thesis, but I feel pressured to deliver substantial quality when posting (not commenting) on boards and I‘m too tired from the day for that.
Which is why I liked the „What are you playing“ posts since I could just drop a one liner and comment on other one liners of people who are enjoying games I‘ve enjoyed as well lol
I‘d post about games I‘ve played lately (like Unravel) but I feel like „was a cool game with a cool style which made me enjoy the graphics even today and was interesting to platinum“ doesn‘t start much of a discussion.
I'll be the first to admit I mainly lurk, but I'd be interested to read about games people find interesting. Who knows, might be a title which flew under my radar and was one introduction away from being my all time favorite.
But yea, the "what are you playing" threads were fun reads.
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In my experience, having a weekly sticky like that is essential for engagement. There are plenty of people here, they just aren't making threads. If you get people in the habit of dropping by once a week, they are more likely to post.
I'd also make the suggestion to scale the rule back to 6 months from 12. It's a good idea in general for a slow community and there were multiple big games that came out in that month 7 through 12 time period. Can always change it back when the community is active. /r/patientgamers was 6 months until semi-recently.
That said, this doesn't have to be a carbon copy of the subreddit. I liked the Meme Monday suggestion that was posed. Anything to drive engagement.
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Just be patient bro
Post when games get a free day on platforms like Steam or GOG?
Post when games are at a new low price point (< $20 USD and < 50% their launch price?)
I'm waiting for Rimworld to drop to $15.
Like others have mentioned, I am in the same boat of having multiple communities to follow with the same name but on different instances and I forget about others or (more likely) don't even know that others exist.
It does bug me that I can't group communities that exist on different instances together. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to a collection of communities that I can give a label to.
A way to group all patientgamers communities together would be a huge help.
It's just the way the whole federation stuff works I guess. And I like it...Except for when I don't 😂
Send a suggestion to your Lemmy app developer! That honestly sounds like a great idea I could see being implemented by like Sync or something.
Post more?
We’ve had trouble over at true gaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.
[email protected]. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
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Did not know this existed. Can't say I specifically wait three months but tend to just play what comes my way. I like never complete games so they go on forever for me. Imma sub.
Kinda the same, and it's almost an irony since I'm on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I've ever seen on my front page from it.
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I can't post about game impressions that often because I am very slow at my gaming... With that said I just finished The Last Window for Nintendo DS again (remember next to nothing about the plot) and god I had a blast with it!
I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a visual novel, but it would be wiser to play Hotel Dusk first if you haven't yet, as The Last Window is a sequel.
I posted a question to my hometown lemmy community and wondered why I wasn't getting any responses. Then realised it had ~1 active user per month... who was probably me.
This community seems pretty jumping by comparison!
If it is a community rather than an instance it might still get some views. A lot of people on Lemmy are still browsing by all/new and they'd see it in that instance and wherever that community is federated.
The monthly recommendation thread is from 3 months ago so doing that regularly is a start. It at least shows the community is active if it gets updated on time.
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?!
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I could be very much wrong since it depends on what communities one subscribes to but I'm getting a feeling that activity on Lemmy is decreasing in general.
Lemmy 0.19 changed how monthly active users are counted (including upvotes) and lemmy.world upgraded to that version 3 months ago. I'd be more interested in post and comment counts.
Comments have grown around an average of 0.8 million comments for the last 3 months. Posts experienced a drop from around 6 million to 4 million from January to February but have been slowly increasing since to 4.8 million.
This month looks set to have very large post and comment counts though. Posts are already at 5 million and comments at 13.8 million.
There’s also going to be a seasonal rhythm to these counts. What times of the year are people more active and posting, etc. Lemmy is so young still, it’s hard to just look at the chart and see what’s what.
I'd agree and I think especially the amount of comments per post has reduced.
I am not sure activity has changed much. I'm getting around 8 messages on my instance (that's not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.
I think the two main points would be already mentioned regular "what are you playing" posts and just writing yourelf whenever you have a chance. I think that livier communities encourage engagement while "dead" ones make people less willing to participate as that means they'll more likely to become the center of attention and not everyone is comfortable with that.
Personally, I've been meaning to write some posts about the stuff I played recently but just didn't have time to do so. Maybe this week...
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