Also... I think you missed this one... It's $80.

Why does it need anti cheat? It's a single player game.

Proton ? What's up with that ?

I watched a few levels of it. This game has already been made. It's called Painkiller and I beat it 20 years ago.

Denuvo's DRM instead of anti-cheat.

Though I also was wondering the same thing. Took me a minute to remember lmao.

Not 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.

Not in Australia, it's $120 here.

Todd, Marty, Phil and Satya can suck an egg together.

There’s a video on YouTube called “Doom The Dark Ages Story Explained” but it’s a Doom game.

Yes it runs on Microsoft excel

Denuvo 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.

Well "new" is arguable.

That, 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/

up 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.

Steam, 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.

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.

They'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.

Yep, 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.

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.

I just barely convinced myself to spend €80 on a single game, then noticed Denuvo. Hard pass