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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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Anyone else playing on a 5-20 year lag? (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sparr@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/ happen, but never reached many people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not "retro") games, particularly PC games?

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My lag time depends on how soon the games are put on sale

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] franglais@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have a 20€ limit on any game I buy, it has to be something I really want at that price too, mostly I won't pay more than 10€ per game. My one exception will be Baldur's gate 3, I will wait for the first sale, and get it at however that much that ends up being.

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

I have MW2 on my Steam wishlist because I want it for the nostalgia. Got an email this last sale that it was on sale ... for $20.