Single-Player Gaming Is Back as DOOM: The Dark Ages Hits a Major Milestone to Become Id Software’s Biggest Launch Ever

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Bethesda and id Software are celebrating with news that Doom: The Dark Ages has officially engaged over 3 million players.

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[Niner51]

It's really good game. The combat is awesome and graphics are great as well.

 

[MadMummy76]

Corporate spin, it's their first doom game to be on games pass. Players tried it does not equal players who paid for it.

It produces a third of the players on steam compared to eternal. If their plan was to cut into their own profits by a desperate attempt at promoting their subscription, then it worked. They think piracy cuts into their revenue? Games pass definitely does.

I think subscriptions are a plague, they reduce games to content churned out, and fomo makes players rush through them reducing enjoyment even if it is a good game.

But I think they are doomed as a business strategy, EA and Ubisoft learned it the hard way, I guess MS didn't get the memo yet, or they still think "we will be the exception to the rule"