Doom sales reach over 500k on PC alone
Could Doom reach two milion in sales across all platforms? We certainly think so.
Doom is just a little over two weeks old today, and while we wait to hear an official word from Bethesda Softworks regarding how well it’s sold, we know the game has at least sold 500,000 copies on PC alone.
According to SteamSpy, there are over 500,000 Steam users who currently own Doom. Considering the game has been out for over two weeks and this is just data from the PC version of the game, we have a feeling Doom could have reached over a million units sold across all platforms, and possibly even reaching two million units.
This is, of course, purely speculation on our part, although when you consider console versions of AAA games tend to sell more than the PC version, you could see why we’d come to this conclusion.
As of now, all we can do is wait until Bethesda Softworks officially announces Doom’s sales. Let’s just hope it’s enough copies to warrant more Doom from id Software in the near future.
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Daniel Perez posted a new article, Doom sales reach over 500k on PC alone
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I'm not sure that's true anymore though. Tomb Raider did like 5m with their reboot. Far Cry 4 did 7m+. The Division and Destiny did like 10m+ I think. I'm sure those games had larger teams but Doom is probably in a reasonably deep hole even with a smaller team due to how long it took. I don't think a graphical showcase shooter is getting greenlit if 1-2m copies is the expectation in its opening weeks. Maybe I'm wrong though, it just seems like that's not a huge number in the era of 100m+ player addressable markets.
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What? Who is telling you this?
but Wolf NO is supposedly similar in gameplay
DOOM plays nothing at all like New Order, except in the vague sense of both being first-person shooters.
New Order had a stand-out story with excellent world-building and characterization coupled to good but mostly conventional mechanics.
DOOM has fantastic mechanics that bring joy back to shooters, coupled to decent story, surprisingly good world-building, and characterization that is shockingly good.-
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New Order is plodding compared to DOOM. Movement is life; "Cover" is a thing you die behind. The games are hugely different. Seriously. This is a game that asks, "What if Half-Life never happened, and shooters continued to evolve from DooM and Quake's DNA?"
http://www.pcgamer.com/doom-is-asking-important-questions-that-other-fpses-arent/
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I haven't beat it yet, but honestly it's got more story than I thought after I heard the same things. There are characters, they do things, they interact with you, and shit in the world changes because of that. And in my opinion, the story works pretty well. Especially when the DOOM guy doesn't always do what those characters want them too.
So the story isn't all disappointing to me. They set out to give you a thin backdrop that gives all your mindless action some context without getting in the way, and then they update that backdrop from time to time, and IMHO they nailed it.
Is it a well scripted drama with deep character development, metaphor and symbolism? Fuck no, but it wisely never even tries at that.
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