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Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed

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From: ba... Barry Bloom
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 23:44
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John Fedor (johnf@linus.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:
> In article <30lakp$c...@illuminati.io.com>, hard...@io.com (Hardball) writes:
> |> : Doom is an okay game and was fun, but was just another shoot 'em up. UFO is
> |> : F@#ckin awesome and requires thinking.
> |> 
> |> 	Get real.  Nothing comes close to the action DOOM has.  If you 
> |> think some cheesy UFO puzzle-game is better than DOOM, you're too old to 
> |> be playin' it.  DOOM kicked the butts off of every game that was out 
> |> there and the only reason it's fallen is because the friggin' voting 
> |> system is screwed.
> |> 	How long has DOOM been out?  ~26 weeks.
> |> 	How long can 1 person's 
> |> 	  vote count for 1 game?      26 weeks.
> |> 
> |> Duh!  Go figure.

> How can some people be SO F%&(*IN stupid.  Have you looked at the
> top 100.  Take a look at CIV, the same rules apply for voting
> for CIV as they did for DOOM, how long was CIV #1.

> Yeah, I know..  You don't have enough fingers and toes to count
> that high..

That is not true.  The rules for voting and the method that the result 
were calculated has changed.   Actually, they changed right before DOOM 
came out.  So, you are the one who is so FUCKING stupid not to know what 
the history is.

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Subject: Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed
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