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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:03:36 -0600
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:50:06 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

>Certainly readers don't really seem to care.

Pretty much my point in a nutshell. That's the TL;DR.

If the readership doesn't care, the publication _can't_ care. If the
readership starts questioning the integrity of the product? Eventually
the publisher must chuck integrity in the bin and make a buck however it
can. There's no point in spending money on it if no one believes it.

IMO, we were all better off with the *Nintendo Power* approach. Today, I
get much better information out of my Switch's patron news service than I
ever did out of pc.ign.com.

That's because there's no doubt as to what it does and doesn't do.


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Zag

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