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I was saying that you clearly can't take how much a very old game is played online now, especially in relation to a much more current game, as a reasonable measure of either its worth or of its popularity or pervasiveness in the culture when it came out. That's just not playing fair. This is clearly an exceptionally lousy criteria by which to judge an old game.

First of all, it's old. Not many people play dozen year old games online. 'nuff said.

And the online community was much smaller then, and was almost entirely on small BBS systems for most people. This was back in the days of DOS, before most people had even heard of the internet. Yet we still played online, and plenty, through special front-ends that had to be written for every game, or sometimes peer to peer.

But the ways of doing it were very intimidating to most people. DOS was a bitch. You were pretty much on your own if you couldn't get front-ends to work. Gaming was not mainstream. Computers were not anywhere near as cheap as they are now.

DOOM was huge in the scene there was, limited, costly, and a bit difficult as the scene there was was.

That nobody plays it online now means zip and says not a thing about it.