Heeding your request for more mail (even though you've published two letters from me already - I blush with gratitude):
I'm not crazy about the sound quality lately, especially the inserted phone interviews with various game programmers and designers. The inconsistent volume levels, high amount of hiss and distortion - it's all very irritating. I realize you don't have facilities to digitally remaster the sound, but if you could at least avoid taping people over the phone (there's usually some kind of whirring in the background, reminiscent of traffic reports from a helicopter) it would help. While it's great to hear from the horse's mouth, some of these guys tend to sound more like the other end; you may edit out ums and ers, but what's left isn't always timeless prose. I'd rather hear smaller samples, with more solid verbalization by the stentorian voices you employ in your pursuit of entertainment excellence. (Sometimes, there's this chopping, whirring noise on some of these phone interviews - like you taped 'em calling from a traffic-watch helicopter!)
And let me add a vote for shareware vs. patches; try rotating them - patches on even numbered issues and shareware on odd numbers.
