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Subject: Re: More Doom... that's a good thing, right?
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
....
> >So like the shovelware Doom Add-on CD's of the 90s, where they scraped
> >cdrom.com and threw everything on a disk?  I do admit I purchased a
> >couple of these, because it was easier to get WADs that way instead of
> >downloading over slow dial up.

> At least the shovelware disks included the text files attributing the
> WADs to the creator. It doesn't seem like Bethesda.net does even that
> much. They just accept that if John Doe uploads
> ThisWADWasMadeByBobPeterson.zip, they give John Doe credit for the
> work. 

> Or so it's been reported. I've never bothered to make a Bethesda.net
> account, so I can't check for myself. Honestly, I uninstalled the
> "Doom + Doom II" pack after less than an hour of playing it; it just
> doesn't feel "Doom" to me. If I need another Doom-fix, I'll just fire
> up GZDoom (a Doom sourceport) and play that instead.

> And if I want to add a mod, I'll just browse ModDB.com and download it
> manually.

Or just go to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games/doom... Oh wait... :(
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