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<h1>Community Rules</h1>

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<li><p><strong>Submissions must be directly gaming-related</strong>, not just a &quot;forced&quot; connection via the title or a caption added to the content.  Note that we do not allow non-gaming meme templates as submissions.</p></li>
<li><p>Posting guidelines: No bandwagon/raid/&quot;pass it on&quot; or direct reply posts, Posts must be in English, Pictures of children may be removed due to safety concerns, No &quot;ragebait&quot; posts</p></li>
<li><p>No piracy, even &quot;abandonware&quot;.</p></li>
<li><p>Mark your spoilers and NSFW submissions, comments and links. Spoiler tags are <code>&gt;!X kills Y!&lt;</code>  . Cosplay posts from content creators who focus primarily is adult content will be removed.</p></li>
<li><p>No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation Requests / Crypto anything</p></li>
<li><p>Submit only the original source of the content. No general URL shorteners (bitly, tinyurl, etc). No screenshots of websites or Twitter.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/wiki/index#wiki_rule_7.3A_self-promotion"><strong>Follow the rules of promotion.</strong></a> 
<strong>This is not the place to spam your channel or stream.</strong> No referral, affiliate, livestream, and/or survey links.</p></li>
<li><p>Discussion Prompts must be submitted as self/text posts, not as image posts.</p></li>
<li><p>Posts and comments, whether in jest or with malice, that contain racist, sexist, homophobic content, threats, or other forms of toxicity will be removed, regardless of popularity or relevance.</p></li>
<li><p>For AMA rules, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/wiki/ama"><strong>click here</strong></a>.</p></li>
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<h2><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/wiki/index">For a more detailed explanation of these rules, click here.</a></h2>

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<h1>Only active participants in our community with <a href="/r/gaming">/r/gaming</a> karma are permitted to post. Non-participants&#39; posts will be automatically removed.</h1>

<h1>ALL MEMES MUST BE GAMING-RELATED, NON-GAMING TEMPLATES SUCH AS SPONGEBOB, &quot;CHANGE MY MIND&quot; ETC. WILL BE REMOVED</h1>

<h1>IF YOU ARE POSTING AN OPEN-ENDED, ASKREDDIT STYLE QUESTION (EG: &quot;WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CHILDHOOD GAME?&quot;), IT MUST BE A TEXT POST. IMAGE POST VERSIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED.</h1>

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We always hear about games that launched horribly but had great comebacks. What are some games that had a good launch but got worse over time?