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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 24 Jan 96 21:38:28 GMT
- Organization: Net '77 Gateway
- Message-ID: <67E1BBA1@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Salutations Jason for on the 24 Jan 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- JC> Percentage ratings are, quite simply, nothing but trouble--especially in
- JC> the all-important "Overall" category. I can actually accept the
- JC> rankings for "value for money", "graphics", "sound", etc. because
- JC> those can be put against some sort of reasonable benchmark...but over
- JC> time, grade inflation is going to catch up with any magazine, any
- JC> publisher, and any game...
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- Remember that if you doom a game to under 85% or so, it's highly unlikely that
- the game will get a large high street presence and sell in commercial viable
- quantities.
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