Hey everyone, friendly neighborhood mod here with a quick question. As this community starts to take shape what are you looking for in it? What kind of things would you like to see posted? What would you not like to see posted?
Xbox news, reviews of games, rumors, discussions of games. As for what I don't want to see....too much wish fulfillment and nostalgia bait? Repeated posts of "remember this" or "I wish they would release a new game for x". That has its place certainly, but I don't want this community to be primarily that.
Also good most of the time on LTE/5G when I'm hotspotted, but the graphics quality drops every few minutes. Not unplayable on slower games (Cities Skylines, etc.) but definitely not good enough for all games.
How can we contain console war garbage? That would be my biggest suggestion. Right now Reddit PS5/XboxSeriesX subs are basically millions of people pretending they are totally above and too mature to participate in console war nonsense, yet the only posts that gain any traction in a meaningful way are Xbox Vs. Sony posts. Maybe find a balance where major ongoing topics are contained to a weekly thread. So there is a weekly game performance thread, weekly Microsoft/Activision merger thread. Something like that. Otherwise this is just going to be Reddit again in short order.
Lemmy PS5 mod here. Console warring is not allowed over on lemmy.ml/c/ps5. I've had a stray comment or 2 about starfield vs final fantasy, but the community voted it down so I didn't intervene. If it gets bad I will not hesitate to take action. We are all gamers, and we should all be celebrating gaming. Personally I play on PS5, Switch, and PC/steam deck.
As for the merger news, articles are allowed to be posted on my community as long as they are playstation related. I think making a discussion thread dedicated to the mergers will have the opposite effect and will cause more issues. As @[email protected] has mentioned below, the Xbox, Nintendo, and PS5 mods are all friendly and are working to foster great console gaming communities across Lemmy.
I agree 100% with the console war crap. I'm in contact with the PS5 mods (and getting in contact with the Nintendo mods) to make sure we can all work together to at least keep the blatant console flaming and baiting off our forums.
That is where I came from as well. Hopefully we can get to that level. Our user levels are slowly building up, we just need more people to interact and post now.
Well, I do NOT have a Xbox. I am mainly interested in Xbox because it's one of the main gaming companies, and because they have Bethesda exclusive games. I plan to get one if Starfield doesn't come over to PS5, so want to have general idea of ecosystem and how things are going.
So, as long as I am concerned, I would love to see news and discussions related to Xbox. There doesn't need to be every single of piece of news ever, but I would like to see at least most major news.
I wouldn’t mind memes but none of that PS5 v XB bullshit. Discussions on hidden gems on Game Pass, upcoming games, funny moments and screen grabs and videos etc. Maybe when the community has grown having ‘meme Monday’ or certain days for certain content in general.
Flame wars of any type won't be tolerated. We're all gamers! I like the idea of certain days for some things though. I'll definitely keep that in mind.
Discussion, not news spam, game reviews, organic engagement with like minded individuals. Significant news is fine, but I don't want someone to be posting news articles every 30 seconds from the bot they wrote. I want real engagement in the community about the subject matter.
I agree on the not spamming part, we don't need 5 of the same article. I believe though that as long as the news is Xbox related it in itself can spawn good discussion.
Video games. What really soured me on the subreddit was the constant updates/posts about whatever lawsuit Sony and MS are in right now. It's stupid, only promotes console war type bullshit, and frankly, I don't care.
Yeah for sure. Contain those posts to a single weekly thread. We dont' need minute by minute updates on the merger. Just have a weekly megathread or something when there is popular ongoing news.
Doing my best! We were affected with a bug that made us not show up in search for a few days but that's been fixed with the rollout of BE 0.18!
I've been keeping in touch with the mod over on Nintendo in a matrix chat. Feel free to reach out anytime. I think we should all work together to make console gaming on Lemmy a vibrant place!