DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
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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 26 May 2025, 13:28 last edited byIt's $70
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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.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:28 last edited byIt's $70 though?
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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 26 May 2025, 13:31 last edited byOh & denuvo
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:33 last edited by mitm0@lemmy.world
The game is basically less Doom & more WH40K-ish.
You want a more Doom-like game ? Try SELACO eventhough it's early access, the 1st chapter is long & fun & guess what the devs told the anti-woke mob to fuck off & the devs are getting cancelled for it.
It's basically F.E.A.R+Classic Doom graphics (Uses the GZDoom engine)
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Where is it $80?
wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:36 last edited by80€ in Steam Spain.
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It's $70 though?
wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:37 last edited byWas thinking of BL4. Still pretty egregious though
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It's $70 though?
wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:37 last edited by80€ in Steam Spain.
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askldjfals;jflsad;
:::wrote on 26 May 2025, 13:53 last edited byBDS is a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and ultimately sanctions of Israel and companies complicit in Israels illegal occupation and other crimes against the Palestinian people.
Microsoft provides AI tools to the Israeli army -IDF- which are used to automatically designate people as targets for bombing. Among other things a particular heinous AI is infamously named "Where's Daddy", where bombings are timed so that the target is killed upon arriving home, so their entire family is also murdered.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-israel-military-gaza-hamas-artificial-intelligence-20b2adb438b39ee9cb6eb2f52c1ae44aActivision Blizzard, Bethesda, iD-Software, Zenimax, Mojang (Minecraft) and others are all owned by Microsoft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studios
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 14:05 last edited by
Marty Stratton and his denuvo riddled pos game can kindly get fukt after what he did to Mick Gordon, the composer of the banger soundtrack for Doom 2016.
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 14:13 last edited by
I didn't even look at it enough to know if I'd buy it otherwise when I saw it has denuvo. Always online DRM is a hard pass for me. I haven't played the last 3 games Atlus released either and I've been playing almost every one since the ps2 era.
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80€ in Steam Spain.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 14:17 last edited by nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de79,99€ in Germany
I am interested, but not that much to pay more than 20€ in a sale in a few years. It was the same with Doom Eternal. And I haven't bought it to this day
Maybe it will never be bought
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BDS is a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and ultimately sanctions of Israel and companies complicit in Israels illegal occupation and other crimes against the Palestinian people.
Microsoft provides AI tools to the Israeli army -IDF- which are used to automatically designate people as targets for bombing. Among other things a particular heinous AI is infamously named "Where's Daddy", where bombings are timed so that the target is killed upon arriving home, so their entire family is also murdered.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-israel-military-gaza-hamas-artificial-intelligence-20b2adb438b39ee9cb6eb2f52c1ae44aActivision Blizzard, Bethesda, iD-Software, Zenimax, Mojang (Minecraft) and others are all owned by Microsoft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studios
wrote on 26 May 2025, 14:34 last edited by::: spoiler spoiler
askldjfals;jflsad;
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Games cost more to produce but there's more customers than ever
wrote on 26 May 2025, 15:00 last edited byAnd its certainly not the developers who are getting all that extra money.
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I'm one of the biggest fans of the DOOM franchise, I've played all the versions since the original one in 1993.
But I don't care if I play it now or in half a year. Or a year for that matter. Never really understood why having it first matters to anyone. I'll be here when the prices drop.I was stupid enough to buy Spacemarine 2, when it came out, at full price (mostly because I loved Boltgun so much) and that was a great lesson about how you should wait around a bit before actually buying a game. It would have been a fun game for 15 or even 20 euro, but it's not worth 70 euro. I Should have bought Helldivers, anyway
wrote on 26 May 2025, 15:50 last edited byI bought Space Marine 2 at launch, decided it needed more time. So I got Helldivers 2 which I immediately got addicted to and I love it.
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I paid about £3.50 for Doom 2016 last week and around £12 for eternal, having not played a doom game since Doom 3's launch. I'm enjoying the 2016 one and will look forward to Eternal in a week or 3 once I finish that. what I won't do is pay £70 for a doom game.
I might consider a games for windows sub to get it that way, but that remains to be seen.wrote on 26 May 2025, 15:56 last edited byGame for windows sub? You mean Gamepass?
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$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.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 16:03 last edited byAnd another plus is that you get to play the games as bug free as they‘ll get AND at higher framerates assuming your hardware improved in the meantime. I certainly wouldn‘t have been able to get the high fidelity DOOM 2016 experience I can get now (at a high framerate) way back when it released.
Downside is that if there‘s any multiplayer component to a game, it‘s probably pretty damn dead years later. But first, I personally don‘t care much about that anymore and second, games bleed the majority of their playerbase within months anyway so it‘s whatever.
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Put the entire game on the disk/ 2 disks and I will buy.
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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.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 17:20 last edited byWould have been the perfect doom game if they didnt make it so every bout of combat ended in a whimper. Even the mech fights dont end gloriously.
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Anyone know what the budget was?
At 800k sold, that's roughly $56M, minus merchant fees, plus whatever they get for 2.2M players on Game Pass.Definitely not bad, though I expect it'll take a while for them to recoup their budget.
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Pedantic about something even experts argue about. Nice
wrote on 26 May 2025, 18:53 last edited byOh yes. My pedantry is nearly boundless.