Yeah no shit. My battlenet launcher wanted $100 for it.
DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
Submitted 2 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://80.lv/articles/doom-the-dark-ages-has-reportedly-sold-less-than-1-million-copies/
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Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
zecg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The reverse-Midas of Microsoft, whatever they buy turns to shit.
simple@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It has nothing to do with quality, most people played it on game pass rather than buying it.
zecg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How nice for Microsoft, I’m sure it’s a big success.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 1 month ago
After Eternal, I’m not interested in this one. 2016 was fantastic, but Eternal felt all over the place. It tried to tell a story but skipped the entire second “book” between the two games, making it feel unfinished trilogy.
Then there’s the difficulty, easy was too easy, and normal was too hard. I shouldn’t have to choose between surviving 10+ hits (easy) or dying in 3-4 (normal). That’s not balance. And I don’t have the time to ‘git gud’ when the difficulty jump is this extreme.
Considering they already had to tweak difficulty in The Dark Ages, it looks like they’re still struggling to get the scaling right
out@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
In the dark ages you can customise the difficulty to a great degree.
Wahots@pawb.social 1 month ago
DOOM 16 was fantastic, but eternal felt gross. It was a huge step back from 2016, and didn’t feel fun. I’m not bothering with the newer games since they essentially are going off gimmicks.
lennyuncle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Game is mid imo
msbeta1421@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only real criticism I have of the game is the price. I think it was a great single player experience, but I totally understand people balking at the $70 price tag.
It was fun, but I put it down once the credits rolled. Nothing inherently wrong with that; cramming a ton of completionist and weekly update content would not have made this a better game.
Maybe I’m just old.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m avoiding it because it just doesn’t look that fun. I played the last 2 new dooms and they were good, for console shooters. More PC gamers should have higher standards than this. I don’t want a dumb story about medieval times, collecting dolls, linear maps, cyberdragon mounts, running from arena to arena and then starting repetitive wave fights. Just make a good shooter please!
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You basically summed up why i didnt find the reboot and its dlc any good haha
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did a new DOOM game get released?
utopiah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well “new” is arguable.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes it runs on Microsoft excel
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The game is basically less Doom & more WH40K-ish.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s 300 riyals [here], what did they expect? I’ll wait for it be cracked. I’m patient.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Well they added a mandatory “parry” system to a doom game, what did they expect?
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I watched a few levels of it. This game has already been made. It’s called Painkiller and I beat it 20 years ago.
dvlsg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No fps gun has ever been as satisfying as that stake launcher.
Here’s hoping the painkiller remaster/remake doesn’t suck.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
good. i won’t buy it until it’s $10. and not even then if they haven’t removed denuvo at that point
Subverb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fewer than. *
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
No less than is correct because they know the exact number they have sold.
If you’ve sold less than 1,000 units then you have sold a number of units that is under 1,000.
If you have sold few of them 1,000 units you have not sold 1,000 units but you’re not sure how many units you have sold just that that number didn’t reach 1,000.
But they do know how many units they sold, otherwise they wouldn’t know if they had sold less than 1,000 so it is “less than”.Subverb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, that’s wrong.
The “less than” vs “fewer than” rule isn’t about whether you know the exact number - it’s about countable vs uncountable nouns.
Video game copies are countable, so it’s traditionally “fewer than 1,000 units” regardless of whether you know the precise number sold.
That said, it’s been misused so much that it’s become more flexible, and “less than” with numbers is widely accepted now.
Don’t take my word for it, Google it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
£70 ($95) for the base game and £100 ($135) for the full game. Bethesda go fuck yourself.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
There’s a video on YouTube called “Doom The Dark Ages Story Explained” but it’s a Doom game.
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BDS?
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not a big fan of the new Dooms, although I did like 2016. Nothing beats the ol’ Doom II (via source ports).
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 1 month ago
Sooo as far as im concerned i personaly will buy it beacuse it looks fun buuut on discount . Right now its just too expensive. And i can buy claire obscure for 2/3 of the price and thats also on my list sooo guess which one will go first.
But to be fair i am not exatcly the most representative sample i basicaly never buy games for more than 40$ and mostly even cheaper. Previous doom games i bought for something between 10$ and 20$ soooo.
anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Put the entire game on the disk/ 2 disks and I will buy.
Siresly@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
simple@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They’re a market research agency, and are well-known and credible enough. See: 80.lv/contact-us
I care about industry news. Hence the post.