• TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As much as I love the Doom games I’m not really a fan of the $70 price tag. The Doom games are great games but it’s not like they are in my top 5 favorite games or anything like that. I’ll wait for a sale.

  • Damarus@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s also 80€ in Europe. Everyone I talked to is waiting for the price to drop, including me.

    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s £70 in the uk, that’s $95 while in the us it costs $70, which is £50. Xbox did the same thing with the new call of duty, their regional pricing is so braindead.

      Historically AAA games have been £10 less than the us counter part ($60 games were £50) and making this change is so stupid.

    • jackod@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      $130 NZD, I don’t want to guess what $80 USD games are going to “convert” too 😮‍💨

    • Flemmy@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I just aquired a value cap to my interest in digital entertainment. Using the vacation money on living/home improvements and built for life camping gear. €25 indie rpg’s and films for the tablet is enough but then again I have no teenage children that demand top shelf brands or else.

  • nimmo@social.nimmog.uk
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    1 year ago

    I paid about £3.50 for Doom 2016 last week and around £12 for eternal, having not played a doom game since Doom 3’s launch. I’m enjoying the 2016 one and will look forward to Eternal in a week or 3 once I finish that. what I won’t do is pay £70 for a doom game. I might consider a games for windows sub to get it that way, but that remains to be seen.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I hope this shows companies that selling their games at 80 Euro is not the way to go.

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It has nothing to do with quality, most people played it on game pass instead of buying it.

          • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            They’ll undoubtedly retain all of the people who came to play Dreck Aegis, after all it’s state of the art and highly replayable, like any Doom game.

            • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              It doesn’t really matter if people stick around to play a single game, they’ll almost certainly explore other games and stick around for the service. That’s the idea I think they’re going for.

              I’d be curious to see how many CoD players stuck around.

  • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m one of the biggest fans of the DOOM franchise, I’ve played all the versions since the original one in 1993. But I don’t care if I play it now or in half a year. Or a year for that matter. Never really understood why having it first matters to anyone. I’ll be here when the prices drop.

    I was stupid enough to buy Spacemarine 2, when it came out, at full price (mostly because I loved Boltgun so much) and that was a great lesson about how you should wait around a bit before actually buying a game. It would have been a fun game for 15 or even 20 euro, but it’s not worth 70 euro. I Should have bought Helldivers, anyway 😓

    • hushable@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m on the same boat, I got 2016 around Eternal release date for like €10 and loved it. Then I bought Eternal just last year for a similar deal and I haven’t finished the DLC yet. I am more than happy to wait for DA to go on sale.

    • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I bought Space Marine 2 at launch, decided it needed more time. So I got Helldivers 2 which I immediately got addicted to and I love it.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I regretted buying HellDivers. I honestly think that it becoming as popular as it did is a damning indictment of the state of coop shooters.

        • atro_city@fedia.io
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          1 year ago

          Literally Cambridge University in 2004 and recently again

          You will often hear less used with plural countable nouns in informal spoken situations, but traditionally it is not considered to be correct:

          We’ve got less pizzas than we need. There’s ten people and only eight pizzas. (traditionally correct usage: fewer pizzas)

          And a good blog post on the topic that actually fits to this situation

          He goes on to point out what less/fewer purists often ignore: that even countables may, in a given context, be considered as quantities rather than numbers. “For instance: 'Not many of these buildings are fewer than thirty years old.’ The thought here is not of individual years but of a period of time; therefore, less.”

          Which is precisely what’s happening here.

          • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            1 year ago

            This is the same “argument” that says “literally” can mean “figuratively”.

            Not a particularly interesting argument to point put that common misusage can alter meaning.

  • astrsk@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I just want id to do something else. Doom is fun and all but they’ve kinda perfected it.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it’s severely underperforming behind the scenes.

    Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It’s the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.

      • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s old lunacy. Believe it or not we live in a class based society where the vast majority of the people that actually provide value to society have their labor stolen by leeches that make money by having money and that is what that person means by the investor class.

      • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        This is Lemmy; everything is politics and it’s really fun and mentally healthy

      • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That term is decades old, it’s fine if you haven’t heard it before but maybe consider that possibility before replying like that and looking like an asshole.

  • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Let’s see

    • The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
    • $80 price tag
    • BDS boycott
    • Denuvo

    I’m shocked that it’s not selling, absolutely shocked.