Doom: The Dark Ages launches to 31k CCU
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Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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The Lord of Cereal said:
Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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DOOM and Eternal effectively had the same recommended specs+ Eternal launched at peak start of Pandemic with viral barbenheimer marketing. Costs less. Doesn't require an RTX card. Wasn't on game pass. Doesn't surprise me tbh.
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The Lord of Cereal said:
Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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I think its going to be hard to compare a game that came out on game pass vs 2 that didnt, no?
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not bad
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I think its going to be hard to compare a game that came out on game pass vs 2 that didnt, no?
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Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Well this kicked the hornets nest lmao.
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IMO ray-tracing required games shot themselves in the foot on the pc market, they shut away too many potential buyer.
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I guess a lot of that drop from the previous game is probably due to Game Pass. It was a much smaller subscription back in 2020 and Doom Eternal didn't hit Game Pass until six months after release in October 2020.
Now it's there day 1.
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Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Says who? The DF review praised it for being perfect in almost everything. Zero stutter, very optimized, and ability to change settings without a restart.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Haven't had any issues on my PC so far about 5 hours in
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Zukkoyaki said:
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Game pass for me personally
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Do people just expect their graphics cards to be enough forever
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The people clearly yearn for glory kills and Eternal's gameplay
Shhhhh, don't mention Gamepass or other reasons, I have a pot to stir
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It's not even Friday in some places yet lol
Wait till the weekend you will notice the player count will go up
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vixolus said:
DOOM and Eternal effectively had the same recommended specs+ Eternal launched at peak start of Pandemic with viral barbenheimer marketing. Costs less. Doesn't require an RTX card. Wasn't on game pass. Doesn't surprise me tbh.
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I was about to correct you on the recommended specs for 2016, but I'll be damned if you aren't right. I remember running it on a 760 and having amazing performance so I had to assume the rec spec was much lower. Idtech is just a great engine I suppose.
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ridiculously high pricing in many parts of the world + good but not fantastic review scores + high minimum pc specs + early access for premium edition
didn't expect it to beat eternal, but debuting with worse numbers than doom 2016 is kinda rough.
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7thFloor said:
Do people just expect their graphics cards to be enough forever
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They expect them to be enough until an upgrade is affordable, and that hasn't been the case for years now.
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Gamepass makes looking at these numbers particularly trecherous but if we use Oblivion as a reference this are very meh numbers.
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That's genuinely low, but Eternal was also probably abnormally high due to COVID boost + marketing hype of "this time we're actually properly promoting the new Doom"+ ran like greased lightning on nearly everything + the organic Doom/Animal Crossing meme pushing consciousness.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Potato PCs getting put in their place does not equal a bad port. Technology moves forward.
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FWIW, I bought the last two Doom games during launch window, and now I'm playing this via Game Pass. Anecdotal, sure. But I'd imagine that's part of the explanation here.
At the same time… It does feel like there's less hype for this than there was for Eternal.
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The high pricing + game pass day 1 to me makes 30k a pretty good ccu for a single player game. I bet many people like me are grabbing a couple months of gamepass to play this and clair obscura
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It's too expensive for a single player only game. Imo. Look at all the other Doom releases, they go down by 80% in price in no time.
Then you have a fantastic game like Expedition 33 releasing for half the price and twice the length.
Easy skip until the eventual price cut and sale.
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The Doom Eternal numbers… do they include players using that forgotten Bethesda launcher?
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Cien said:
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i have a feeling theyll at least optimize it for steam deck despite the RT requirement. Indiana Jones just got a patch that verified it for steam deck and it seems to run decent at 30 fps even if its like ultra performance upscaling lol. probably trick windows into running it in that mode
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I don't know how to think about this when both Clair Obscur and Oblivion are doing higher CCU numbers right now 3 weeks post their releases than this.
Both games on Gamepass.
I guess let's wait till the weekend but I feel these are kinda soft numbers but not bad or great.
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BAW said:
The Doom Eternal numbers… do they include players using that forgotten Bethesda launcher?
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No, 104k was on Steam only.
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With Oblivion, Clair Obscur and Doom all releasing on game pass in a small timeframe, I didn't even entertain the idea of buying the game on Steam.
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Not that good, but i imagine the early acess hurted the numbers
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Feels like a mix of the price tag, high requirements and it being on Gamepass
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Mezoly said:
I don't know how to think about this when both Clair Obscur and Oblivion are doing higher CCU numbers right now 3 weeks post their releases than this.
Both games on Gamepass.
I guess let's wait till the weekend but I feel these are kinda soft numbers but not bad or great.
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Both and less demanding/required specs
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Zukkoyaki said:
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Kinda yes and no. I got crashes for surebut when its the moment to moment gameplay its smooth as.
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I Don’t Care WhereI imagine the RT requirements are probably the biggest factor?
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nsilvias said:
i have a feeling theyll at least optimize it for steam deck despite the RT requirement. Indiana Jones just got a patch that verified it for steam deck and it seems to run decent at 30 fps even if its like ultra performance upscaling lol. probably trick windows into running it in that mode
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Oh, absolutely. I can see them doing some tuning for the Steam Deck.
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Isn't this a steam launch? As a massive Eternal fan and this being one of my most anticipated games ever, I'm probably waiting on a sale due to the high launch price and too much stuff to play. Tempted to just get it and play it tonight though lol
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Bought 2016 day one, amazing game. Bought Eternal later on in a sale and haven't got around to it yet. Skipped Dark Ages for now. Looks alright but I've already started waiting for it to get cheaper since the early access premium version released, by the time normal version comes out it's easier to wait even longer for even cheaper. And besides, really should just play Eternal. But new shiny is tempting, and without premium I might have day one'd it.
These are weak numbers, maybe it'll have a nice bump on the weekend.
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Friendly Bear said:
I imagine the RT requirements are probably the biggest factor?
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doesn't help too I think, especially for a ~15 hours game
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Crushed said:
That's genuinely low, but Eternal was also probably abnormally high due to COVID boost + marketing hype of "this time we're actually properly promoting the new Doom"+ ran like greased lightning on nearly everything + the organic Doom/Animal Crossing meme pushing consciousness.
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The original Barbenheimer
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Just wait for 3 to 4 months and get it 50% off.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Don't hang around that neighborhood.
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I mean all I can really think of is that for some reason word of mouth on this game is poor
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What's strange is the number of people that really loved the last game that have no interest in the new game. I enjoyed 2016 and Eternal, so I was always going to like Dark Ages, but a friend of mine has no interest becauseit's not like Eternal.
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I'm seeing little talk around this new Doom
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We have to stop using the "its on gamepass" excuse. So many games come out that are on gamepass that do well on Steam. We have enough of a sample size of years at this point to be able to deduce that gamepass does not eat into Steam sales to any significant degree - I am sure it still does, but it would be pretty minor.
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I didn't even realize it came out. Thought there'd be more buzz around it.
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Yeah for whatever reason word of mouth on this game is pretty dead.
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Doom: The Dark Ages launches to 31k CCU
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The Lord of Cereal
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Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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The Lord of Cereal said:
Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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DOOM and Eternal effectively had the same recommended specs+ Eternal launched at peak start of Pandemic with viral barbenheimer marketing. Costs less. Doesn't require an RTX card. Wasn't on game pass. Doesn't surprise me tbh.
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The Lord of Cereal said:
Granted this doesn't include early access and this is just on a Thursday afternoon, but goddamn that's low. Eternal hit a peak CCU of 104,000 and even 2016 managed 44,000
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I think its going to be hard to compare a game that came out on game pass vs 2 that didnt, no?
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not bad
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I think its going to be hard to compare a game that came out on game pass vs 2 that didnt, no?
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That won't stop anyone
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Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Well this kicked the hornets nest lmao.
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IMO ray-tracing required games shot themselves in the foot on the pc market, they shut away too many potential buyer.
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I guess a lot of that drop from the previous game is probably due to Game Pass. It was a much smaller subscription back in 2020 and Doom Eternal didn't hit Game Pass until six months after release in October 2020.
Now it's there day 1.
Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Says who? The DF review praised it for being perfect in almost everything. Zero stutter, very optimized, and ability to change settings without a restart.
View:
Only thing missing is a preview window for graphical changes and some settings don't change anything above High until the path-tracing update comes out.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Haven't had any issues on my PC so far about 5 hours in
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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From id?
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Do people just expect their graphics cards to be enough forever
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The people clearly yearn for glory kills and Eternal's gameplay
Shhhhh, don't mention Gamepass or other reasons, I have a pot to stir
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It's not even Friday in some places yet lol
Wait till the weekend you will notice the player count will go up
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vixolus said:
DOOM and Eternal effectively had the same recommended specs+ Eternal launched at peak start of Pandemic with viral barbenheimer marketing. Costs less. Doesn't require an RTX card. Wasn't on game pass. Doesn't surprise me tbh.
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I was about to correct you on the recommended specs for 2016, but I'll be damned if you aren't right. I remember running it on a 760 and having amazing performance so I had to assume the rec spec was much lower. Idtech is just a great engine I suppose.
cvbas
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ridiculously high pricing in many parts of the world + good but not fantastic review scores + high minimum pc specs + early access for premium edition
didn't expect it to beat eternal, but debuting with worse numbers than doom 2016 is kinda rough.
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7thFloor said:
Do people just expect their graphics cards to be enough forever
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They expect them to be enough until an upgrade is affordable, and that hasn't been the case for years now.
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Gamepass makes looking at these numbers particularly trecherous but if we use Oblivion as a reference this are very meh numbers.
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That's genuinely low, but Eternal was also probably abnormally high due to COVID boost + marketing hype of "this time we're actually properly promoting the new Doom"+ ran like greased lightning on nearly everything + the organic Doom/Animal Crossing meme pushing consciousness.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Potato PCs getting put in their place does not equal a bad port. Technology moves forward.
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FWIW, I bought the last two Doom games during launch window, and now I'm playing this via Game Pass. Anecdotal, sure. But I'd imagine that's part of the explanation here.
At the same time… It does feel like there's less hype for this than there was for Eternal.
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The high pricing + game pass day 1 to me makes 30k a pretty good ccu for a single player game. I bet many people like me are grabbing a couple months of gamepass to play this and clair obscura
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It's too expensive for a single player only game. Imo. Look at all the other Doom releases, they go down by 80% in price in no time.
Then you have a fantastic game like Expedition 33 releasing for half the price and twice the length.
Easy skip until the eventual price cut and sale.
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The Doom Eternal numbers… do they include players using that forgotten Bethesda launcher?
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Cien said:
Potato PCs getting put in their place does not equal a bad port. Technology moves forward.
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i have a feeling theyll at least optimize it for steam deck despite the RT requirement. Indiana Jones just got a patch that verified it for steam deck and it seems to run decent at 30 fps even if its like ultra performance upscaling lol. probably trick windows into running it in that mode
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I don't know how to think about this when both Clair Obscur and Oblivion are doing higher CCU numbers right now 3 weeks post their releases than this.
Both games on Gamepass.
I guess let's wait till the weekend but I feel these are kinda soft numbers but not bad or great.
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BAW said:
The Doom Eternal numbers… do they include players using that forgotten Bethesda launcher?
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No, 104k was on Steam only.
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With Oblivion, Clair Obscur and Doom all releasing on game pass in a small timeframe, I didn't even entertain the idea of buying the game on Steam.
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Not that good, but i imagine the early acess hurted the numbers
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Feels like a mix of the price tag, high requirements and it being on Gamepass
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Mezoly said:
I don't know how to think about this when both Clair Obscur and Oblivion are doing higher CCU numbers right now 3 weeks post their releases than this.
Both games on Gamepass.
I guess let's wait till the weekend but I feel these are kinda soft numbers but not bad or great.
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Both and less demanding/required specs
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Zukkoyaki said:
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Kinda yes and no. I got crashes for surebut when its the moment to moment gameplay its smooth as.
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I Don’t Care WhereI imagine the RT requirements are probably the biggest factor?
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nsilvias said:
i have a feeling theyll at least optimize it for steam deck despite the RT requirement. Indiana Jones just got a patch that verified it for steam deck and it seems to run decent at 30 fps even if its like ultra performance upscaling lol. probably trick windows into running it in that mode
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Oh, absolutely. I can see them doing some tuning for the Steam Deck.
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Isn't this a steam launch? As a massive Eternal fan and this being one of my most anticipated games ever, I'm probably waiting on a sale due to the high launch price and too much stuff to play. Tempted to just get it and play it tonight though lol
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Bought 2016 day one, amazing game. Bought Eternal later on in a sale and haven't got around to it yet. Skipped Dark Ages for now. Looks alright but I've already started waiting for it to get cheaper since the early access premium version released, by the time normal version comes out it's easier to wait even longer for even cheaper. And besides, really should just play Eternal. But new shiny is tempting, and without premium I might have day one'd it.
These are weak numbers, maybe it'll have a nice bump on the weekend.
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Friendly Bear said:
I imagine the RT requirements are probably the biggest factor?
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doesn't help too I think, especially for a ~15 hours game
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Crushed said:
That's genuinely low, but Eternal was also probably abnormally high due to COVID boost + marketing hype of "this time we're actually properly promoting the new Doom"+ ran like greased lightning on nearly everything + the organic Doom/Animal Crossing meme pushing consciousness.
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The original Barbenheimer
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Just wait for 3 to 4 months and get it 50% off.
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Zukkoyaki said:
Word on the street is it's a bad PC port.
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Don't hang around that neighborhood.
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I mean all I can really think of is that for some reason word of mouth on this game is poor
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What's strange is the number of people that really loved the last game that have no interest in the new game. I enjoyed 2016 and Eternal, so I was always going to like Dark Ages, but a friend of mine has no interest becauseit's not like Eternal.
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I'm seeing little talk around this new Doom
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We have to stop using the "its on gamepass" excuse. So many games come out that are on gamepass that do well on Steam. We have enough of a sample size of years at this point to be able to deduce that gamepass does not eat into Steam sales to any significant degree - I am sure it still does, but it would be pretty minor.
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I didn't even realize it came out. Thought there'd be more buzz around it.
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Yeah for whatever reason word of mouth on this game is pretty dead.
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RPGs are white hot right now and single-player shooters are... not.
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