Out of the 3 million players Bethesda bragged about last week, 2.2 million are said to be playing through Xbox Game Pass.
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  1. It’s $80
  2. It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
  3. It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
  4. It’s $80
  5. (Edit) shitty DRM
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Oh & denuvo

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Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.

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I might create a VM to play it for $1 tbf. But yeah I think I’m drawing the line at $5 for anything with denuvo

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Yup. I would have bought Persona 5 Royale and SMT V on day one, if there was no Denuvo. I normally don’t open my wallet for $60 games.

Super Robot Wars Y? Not on my radar anymore. Denuvo has cost the companies at least $300+, and I am not a rich dude.

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Denuvo is the only reason I’m waiting. I’m on Linux, and I’m not risking that Proton change license issue. And also I hate the performance hit that Denuvo causes.

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Proton ? What’s up with that ?

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Denuvo will revoke your licence to play a game if it thinks you’ve installed the game on computers with different hardware. Issue is it gets confused by changing the proton version that runs the game, thinking it’s a new install on a new computer, and so quickly bans you from playing the game.

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Oh now I get the picture, jesus it’s that bad huh

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That, unfortunately https://www.404media.co/doom-the-dark-ages-drm-is-locking-out-linux-users-who-bought-the-game/ namely that each new Proton “install” e.g. switching version because there is a bug counts as a new install which are limited.

For the bigger picture https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

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I just wished GOG put more effort, because their Anti-DRM stance is cool AF. I recently bought The Earth-2150 trilogy from GOG

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Where is it $80?

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80€ in Steam Spain.

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79,99€ in Germany

I am interested, but not that much to pay more than 20€ in a sale in a few years. It was the same with Doom Eternal. And I haven’t bought it to this day 😅

Maybe it will never be bought 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Not in Australia, it’s $120 here.

Todd, Marty, Phil and Satya can suck an egg together.

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Steam, the cheapest I see it as is 79,99€ where I am, which is actually US$90. I just assumed the US store did a straight numeral conversion to dollars, but you’re getting a discount too, it seems.

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Gonna wait for a code and a sale in a year

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It’s $70

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Depends on your location in the world. Which shows just how arbitrary the price actually is.

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Because of the tariffs that only apply to the US, see, they have to charge more for digital goods in other countries because reasons.

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Also, it reviewed well but with some annoying caveats.

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Also… I think you missed this one… It’s $80.

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up against Expedition 33

I mean… I don’t play Doom due to DRM but also to be fair Expedition 33, which I’m enjoying quite a lot on Linux, is “just” 40ish hours whereas Doom is (check notes) less than 20hrs to complete? WTH. Nope.

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20 and 40 hours both sound pretty terrible for such expensive games. Got far more out of games like Factorio and for a lot less.

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I’d rather have a 20 hour game that is engaging the entire time than a game that has a ton of filler in it.

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Factorio is engaging the entire time. Not a massive fan on story games because that severely limits the playtime you get from the game.

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Yep, different style of games. I need to give Factorio another shot, it seems really up my alley but I couldn’t get into it.

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