Would you pay a quarter to leave a comment on PCGamer.com? Before you scream "no" at me in the comments for the bargain price of free, consider that the PC Gamer magazine readers of yesteryear were Built Different.Once upon a time, folks were so eager to mail their letters into the magazine that they'd pay for postage, which cost 30-50 pence per second class stamp in the UK circa 2010. Or they'd instead send the PC Gamer staff a text, at the cost of 25 pence "plus your standard network charge" for the 160 characters allowed in a single SMS message.

Brevity's the soul of wit and all that, right?Despite this being a feature of our UK magazine just 15 years ago, the idea of paying a quarter per minuscule text message feels about as ancient and alien a concept to explain to today's youth as floppy disks or long-distance phone calls. Or payphones. Or analog clocks.

I think I might be losing the plot here.Back to the point: It's quaint, but actually quite charming that for several years the magazine ran a column in the letters section devoted to reader text messages and even micro reviews. Here are some of the "best" ones from issues I've recently been re-reading, plus the PCG team's responses."Spk Ur Mnd"(Image credit: Future)I’m one of the 15 million people who are on Steam and I can’t help noticing that there is a large lack of games. My favourite games are Blizzard ones such as World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo 2 and I would love if these games were on Steam. - Eoghan O’ConnellWe think Valve, too, would love to have WoW on Steam.

But Blizzard have their own digital distribution and patching system, and they’re not about to let the fact that it sucks persuade them to change. PCGBloody hell… - SimonQuite. PCGCongratulations to you as we bring to your notice result online email lottery.

Here are your winning numbers: 52-6-39-15-36-1 - Mrs Saffira Musantu (Lottery Group Coordinator)Thanks! We’ll have our 2 million Euros in cash then, please. PCGOnce again, congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning.

Regards. - Mrs Saffira Musantu (Lottery Group Coordinator)Where’s our bloody money, then? PCGThey say PC gaming is dead or dying. - Aaron WhiteheadThey’re not sure? PCGSanta if you are there, next year I want you to kill every single member of SecureROM, destroy its headquarters and steal the money from their bank accounts. - Aaron WhiteheadOddly enough, we’ve been wanting to kill Santa ever since he started doing those bloody Coke adverts.

PCGAnyone have 30 spare bottles of Nuka-Cola Quantum? - Martster123Anyone? PCGIf there’s one thing we can all agree on it would be that 80% of games’ writing is toxic to the human physiology. If I see another hardcore marine with a dark past who, goddammit, just won’t play by the rules, then I’m gonna make someone pay. - Thomas MayoWhat dark thing happened in your past to make you this way?

PCGShare your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free Try it Now! - Alex Overton Oh yes! A more complex and less popular version of Flickr! Ace.

PCGFor this abomination against the laws of thy universe, thy magazine muste pay a toll. - AnonymousIt feels like we already are. PCGIssue 198, p81 – the snipurl’s are either deleted or private so I can’t access any of them (Evacuation was the primary one I am after)... Is it a typo or have snipurl actually removed them for some bizarre reason? - Alex BransonThey work just fine for us... no typos or removals we can find.

Try the link again. If you still have no luck, go straight to www.foddy.net/Evacuation.html PCGWorms Armageddon is so wormalicous, I better geddon playing. Yipee!

Worm out. - Si Ripewormalicious, adj. As pleasant-tasting as an annelid of the order Haplotaxida, such as the common Earthworm. Archaic.Since the end of HL2 Ep2 I’ve been so eager to play the next instalment.

Do you have any inside info? - Bryan powellYes.(A haiku for you!) TF2 now trades, Crates now clog inventory Alas have no keys - PhoenixDKLess of this sort of thing.I Am Jane Shepard. I am the Butcher of Torfan. I am Humanity’s image.

I am the First Human Spectre. I am the Saviour of the Citadel. Saviour of the council. Killer of Geth.

Destroyer of Saran. Destroyer of Sovereign. One Thing I am God-Damn not is Cerberus’ Bitch! - Jane ShepardThis goes on for another 900 terrifying words.

Please stay away from us.It’s time for Captain Fizz Meets the Blaster-Trons? Time to dust off my A500! - BiggieDPffft. Console gamers probably don’t know what that means.

We do, though. Obviously.Which would you prefer to have ported to PC, Metal Gear Solid or Uncharted? - Soteris ZannettouImagine the mod community that’d spring up around a Metal Gear game on PC. Those are some passionate crazies.There clearly aren’t enough pseudonyms in your publication. - Lee ThaxorYou don’t really believe we have a writer called ‘Graham Smith,’ do you?

Come come, Thaxor.IDEA! SPORE combined with POKEMON!!! - ShaunRattue“Penis-chu, I choose you!” Yeah. There’s a flaw in this