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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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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I never knew that! Was this an official thing at the time or has someone reverse engineered it later?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It was an official thing, and the only way to play Final Fantasy XI, since the game had to receive updates. The HDD has to be a 3.5" SATA drive to slot in properly. I looked around for one adapter 3.5 to SD adapter, but finding a used 500gb drive was cheaper.