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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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Interesting to see how dead the MMORPG genre has become. Are there still players around? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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Mostly referring to the release of the latest WoW extension which isn't discussed anywhere (or maybe I missed it)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Commercials weren't the only example I listed.

I consume as much media as anyone, a lot of gaming content, and I don't recall seeing a single WoW ad in years, not on websites, youtube, or streaming, Maybe you see those ads because you play WoW or other mmos. I haven't heard any streamers talking about it, no articles or memes outside of dedicated communities.

I'm not saying those things dont exist. I'm just saying, as a general consumer of gaming media, it really doesn't come up nearly as often as it used to. It's more niche now, less mainstream. Which, unfortunately, means the player base is less dynamic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look you can go to the WoW, FFXIV, ESO, and OSRS subreddits or search for them on Twitter and see that the communities are still extremely active for these games. WoW has 75k on Twitch right now and MMOs are awful stream games. If you don't use mainstream platforms you're not getting an accurate read on what the mainstream opinions are.