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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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Doom sales reach over 500k on PC alone
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is that actually good? I feel like people haven't quite recalibrated what normal/good/great sales numbers look like for AAA games. 2m copies sold across all platforms doesn't seem like that much to me anymore.
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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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right, I was going off the article's guess that that would mean 1-2m on all platforms so far
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the majority of sales are in the first few weeks
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on only 1 platform though
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I think it's more of a reflection of Halo's popularity waning in the face of CoD and co. Reach was an off year (for mp) and it lost momentum as a result of that too.
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I recall that when Crysis reported it's sub-1-million sales on PC it was considered a huge bust.
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And picked a better cover.
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Probably would have been more if it wasn't for their MP Halo beta
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Eh, I guess it's just how my taste has evolved over the years I guess. I'll eventually play it for sure, but Wolf NO is supposedly similar in gameplay and the thing that kept me going was mostly the story, not the gameplay. It wasn't bad or boring or anything. Just not enough for me any more or something *shrug*
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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.
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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/-
Yeah Wolfenstein is heavily cover based. Doom forces you to constantly move and go on the offensive.
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The story aspect seems good to me because it stays out of the way of the real draw (action) and you can pretty much skip and ignore most of it if you want to. When the Doomguy isn't already doing that for you. There is optional text and lore and background you can dig into at your own pace tho.
I haven't played enough to speak on where it goes, but up front what they do with the character and storytelling is way better than fps games that try hard to tell a compelling story and fall flat on their face. Also better than games that try to be overtly funny or irreverent. If nothing else, it's surprising. A plus rather than a negative.-
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Yeah it's light in a good way. Plus Doomguy's small backstory is awesome.
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Yeah there is spoilers he's actually an ancient warrior that really fucking hates hell, a seraph gave him powers, and he spent a very long time murdering hell's inhabitants until they imprisoned him. In short Doomguy is the boogieman hell fears.
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The story is Hell is your bitch and the demons are terrified of you. Plus some scientists went fucking nuts. That's all you need to know.
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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.
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That's great, but we all know console sales are what matter these days. :(
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I thought denuvo can't be cracked (yet)
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Oh :[
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