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DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies

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  • K [email protected]

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

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    And 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 😓

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      I 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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      • nimmo@social.nimmog.ukN [email protected]

        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.

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        Game 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.

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          And 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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            • nawa@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

              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.

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              Would 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

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                  Oh yes. My pedantry is nearly boundless.

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                  • mitm0@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                    Oh & denuvo

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                    Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.

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                    • M [email protected]

                      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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                      Wow. I already wasn't going to buy any more Bethesda slop, but now I'm not going to buy it twice.

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                        Bethesda ought to just let the Doom IP go and give it to someone who actually cares.

                        I will never give a single red cent to Bethesda ever again and I sure as hell ain't doing it for this. Whatever this is has no business claiming to be a Doom game. They probably would have had slightly better luck if they slapped the veneer of some other IP over it rather than Doom.

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                          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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                          Holy fucking shit! I live under the rock in the middle of nowhere so I've heard only some brief parts of "something wrong with DOOM Eternal music" but nothing factual. Now I gave the time to read the whole article and I'm speechless. 'Cause this is bad, really, really, REALLY bad. I feel sorry for people that have to work and live under such assholes like Marty obviously is...

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                            Game is 70$ on Steam US and has a very positive review. That is still too much money unless this is a game you were really looking forward to.

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                            • A [email protected]

                              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.

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                              Doom Eternal is a beautiful album that includes a lovely mini-game.

                              Edit: a lot of "wooshing" in the replies, but I blame it on myself.

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                              • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                                Bethesda ought to just let the Doom IP go and give it to someone who actually cares.

                                I will never give a single red cent to Bethesda ever again and I sure as hell ain't doing it for this. Whatever this is has no business claiming to be a Doom game. They probably would have had slightly better luck if they slapped the veneer of some other IP over it rather than Doom.

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                                You obviously haven't played it. The game is great and 100% worthy of the Doom name.

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                                  I would have bought it if it didn't have denuvo. I'll wait til its stripped out.

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                                    On GamePass though, isn't it? Only people actually buying would be on PS5 and the neversub gang.

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                                      Yeah no shit. My battlenet launcher wanted $100 for it.

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                                        It's $70

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                                        Depends on your location in the world. Which shows just how arbitrary the price actually is.

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                                          You obviously haven't played it. The game is great and 100% worthy of the Doom name.

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                                          I mean, it ain't bad, it's fun(I'm on mission 13-14), it's still a Doom game. But it's definitely the weakest of the last 3 games.

                                          The Atlan is a cool concept but it's just slow combat, the dragon sections are okay I guess but not groundbreaking.. The overall combat itself is fun, but it's somehow less visceral than the other two games, glory kills are basically gone and you just do a melee attack most of the time... I honestly enjoyed Eternal much more, it's combat made you use the mechanics in a better way

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