I’m pretty sure that’s exactly how they want it to be. If they were interested in selling games they wouldn’t put them day one on gamepass.

meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it's severely underperforming behind the scenes.

Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It's the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.

It's £70 in the uk, that's $95 while in the us it costs $70, which is £50. Xbox did the same thing with the new call of duty, their regional pricing is so braindead.

Historically AAA games have been £10 less than the us counter part ($60 games were £50) and making this change is so stupid.

We went through this song and dance with Indiana Jones and Avowed, too. If this was a strategy that lost them money, they'd stop doing it. It turns out they're just fine with having tens of millions of subscribers that like the idea of getting access to games like these for, in plenty of cases, cheaper.

Game pass is a big success for them as far as anyone can tell.

They can also probably do some accounting hijinks to write off these “losses” while still profiting on it for a long long time. But this is purely speculative on my part, I’m not an accountant so I’m not sure something like that can be done.

I'm on the same boat, I got 2016 around Eternal release date for like €10 and loved it. Then I bought Eternal just last year for a similar deal and I haven't finished the DLC yet. I am more than happy to wait for DA to go on sale.

Games cost more to produce but there's more customers than ever

Not sure about hardcore Doom fans but the game looks uninteresting to me specifically. It's like a polar opposite from Doom 2016 judging by all the videos I've seen. Don't really care about the higher price, I'd get it if I liked it but it really doesn't click for me.

Let's see

• The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
• $80 price tag
• BDS boycott
• Denuvo

I'm shocked that it's not selling, absolutely shocked.

Pedantic about something even experts argue about. Nice

1. It’s $80
2. It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
3. It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
4. It’s $80
5. (Edit) shitty DRM

It doesn't really matter if people stick around to play a single game, they'll almost certainly explore other games and stick around for the service. That's the idea I think they're going for.

I'd be curious to see how many CoD players stuck around.

Commander Keen, like you've never seen him before! Now in high res 8k textured raytraced 60 fps 3D! It's a shooter! Upgrade your blaster with online upgrades! Skins! Online co-op! DLC! AI chatbot npcs! Lootboxes! Gacha eggs! Sprawling open procedurally generated world! And new for nextgen... play as Kendra Keen!

!!!

Maybe leave it be.

$20 is the limit for me. I'm perfectly fine waiting a few years to play the game, if it still exists by that point. If it doesn't, then I'm glad I didn't waste my time.

Seeing how they screwed over Mick Gordon, the composer for the previous two installments, I'll vote with my wallet and skip this one. My backlog is big enough as it is anyway.

Also, it reviewed well but with some annoying caveats.

$130 NZD, I don't want to guess what $80 USD games are going to "convert" too ‍