DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
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Doom Eternal? The game with a soundtrack that was made up of butchered parts of Gordon’s work, welded together by a novice, at the command of an egotistical dickhead who slandered Gordon after the fact?
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
Eternals original OST was very poor compared to Doom 2016. Big reason I never bothered with the game.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 05:17 last edited by spacetimemachine@lemmy.worldJust for the record, the in game OST was properly done by MG and was great. It was the Official OST album that was taking bits from that OST to make full songs that were very sub-par. The music MG was making is very dynamic in game, and each level had multiple musical phrases that start and stop dynamically during gameplay (this isn't unique to doom of course, lots of games do this.) in game the music is some of his best work imo, and really brings the gameplay to another level.
Some people have released better mixes of the songs taken and edited from those music clips in the game files to make better mixes than the Official OST album.
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- It’s $80
- It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
- It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
- It’s $80
- (Edit) shitty DRM
wrote on 27 May 2025, 05:24 last edited byAlso... I think you missed this one... It's $80.
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I would have bought it if it didn't have denuvo. I'll wait til its stripped out.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 05:42 last edited byWhy does it need anti cheat? It's a single player game.
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Denuvo is the only reason I'm waiting. I'm on Linux, and I'm not risking that Proton change license issue. And also I hate the performance hit that Denuvo causes.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 06:23 last edited byProton ? What's up with that ?
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I watched a few levels of it. This game has already been made. It's called Painkiller and I beat it 20 years ago.
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Why does it need anti cheat? It's a single player game.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 07:15 last edited byDenuvo's DRM instead of anti-cheat.
Though I also was wondering the same thing. Took me a minute to remember lmao.
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Forcing raytracing is a great way to close off a bunch of customers.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 07:18 last edited byNot just because some people don't have it either, but for anything with RTX2000/3000 and RDNA2, Forced RT is just forced low framerate.
I hope making everyone dynamically draw the lights and shadows in realtime for a linear game was worth the 15c it saved on Microsoft's electricity bill for not pre-baking overnight.
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Where is it $80?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 07:26 last edited byNot in Australia, it's $120 here.
Todd, Marty, Phil and Satya can suck an egg together.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:04 last edited by
There’s a video on YouTube called “Doom The Dark Ages Story Explained” but it’s a Doom game.
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Did a new DOOM game get released?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:14 last edited byYes it runs on Microsoft excel
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On GamePass though, isn't it? Only people actually buying would be on PS5 and the neversub gang.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:20 last edited byOr Linux
I really liked Game Pass though. Played some great games in there I would either have completely missed or have had to wait years for them to be discounted. -
Proton ? What's up with that ?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:25 last edited byDenuvo will revoke your licence to play a game if it thinks you've installed the game on computers with different hardware. Issue is it gets confused by changing the proton version that runs the game, thinking it's a new install on a new computer, and so quickly bans you from playing the game.
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Did a new DOOM game get released?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:27 last edited byWell "new" is arguable.
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Proton ? What's up with that ?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:28 last edited by utopiah@lemmy.worldThat, unfortunately https://www.404media.co/doom-the-dark-ages-drm-is-locking-out-linux-users-who-bought-the-game/ namely that each new Proton "install" e.g. switching version because there is a bug counts as a new install which are limited.
For the bigger picture https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
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- It’s $80
- It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
- It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
- It’s $80
- (Edit) shitty DRM
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:31 last edited by utopiah@lemmy.worldup against Expedition 33
I mean... I don't play Doom due to DRM but also to be fair Expedition 33, which I'm enjoying quite a lot on Linux, is "just" 40ish hours whereas Doom is (check notes) less than 20hrs to complete? WTH. Nope.
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Where is it $80?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 08:44 last edited by eggyhead@lemmings.worldSteam, the cheapest I see it as is 79,99€ where I am, which is actually US$90. I just assumed the US store did a straight numeral conversion to dollars, but you’re getting a discount too, it seems.
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So much I don't know here. Like what an 80.lv is, what their source Alinea Analytics is or what either of their credibility is, why a second source (Ampere) arrived at a PS5 number that deviated from Alinea's by over 100%, why this didn't make 80.lv question the veracity of the claim they opted to put in their headline, what sales even mean in the context of Game Pass, why I would care about the potential profitability of a game I don't care about, why I clicked this post, am writing this comment, or why Microsoft opts to be complicit in Israel's genocide.
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So much I don't know here. Like what an 80.lv is, what their source Alinea Analytics is or what either of their credibility is, why a second source (Ampere) arrived at a PS5 number that deviated from Alinea's by over 100%, why this didn't make 80.lv question the veracity of the claim they opted to put in their headline, what sales even mean in the context of Game Pass, why I would care about the potential profitability of a game I don't care about, why I clicked this post, am writing this comment, or why Microsoft opts to be complicit in Israel's genocide.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 09:29 last edited byThey're a market research agency, and are well-known and credible enough. See: https://80.lv/contact-us
I care about industry news. Hence the post.
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Forcing raytracing is a great way to close off a bunch of customers.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 09:40 last edited byYep, that and it looks like the base Doom formula has been watered down a lot from the gameplay I've seen.
The release of new games sometimes makes me play older titles, going through Doom 2 with some tasty mods atm.
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there's a gorillion reasons why it isnt doing so hot, but i could make a few uneducated guesses. one, gamepass subscriptions, which obfuscate the data and has sent multiple studios to the grave even when they had moderate success. two, the economy is terrible in the US and getting worse by the day, making a $70+ game not an appealing purchase. three, maybe the Boycott Divestment Sanctions protest is having some effect.