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Originally Posted by DarthHelmet86

Doom and Wolfenstien had a shareware Episode 1, with the other episodes greyed out in the level select menu. Paying for the game unlocked those levels (wether they were there all along or not I don't know) this makes it feel much more like a demo, a taster of the full game. Games like Commander Keen gave you a .exe that was a whole game for the shareware title, buying the extra games meant getting extra .exes to run the new games.

Seems like a big difference to me, the Doom shareware was a demo of a full game, Commader Keen 1 was a full game, with other games that could be brought to finish the story. But why argue about it here, if there is a game someone wants on the site they can request or offer it and we can decide then if it belongs on the site. Doom 1 is sold, offering the Shareware version will just lead to be people complaining that they didn't get the whole game.

Approving or rejecting a game has never been about which particular updater was online at the moment, and how did he "feel like" about the game.

If it's to be that these games are rejected, OK, but it has to be a definite criterion. About games with expansions, I still think they will catch us pants down, if we don't decide how to handle them. So far we have been deciding on the already abandoned ones on a per case basis, instead of having any rule like for the rest, as we should.