It appears that DOOM is doing well on the PC as id Software’s title has sold 500K units so far. This information comes from Steamspy; a Steam stats service based on Web API provided by Valve. Steamspy’s numbers are slightly delayed – if Total War: WARHAMMER’s stats are anything to go by – so we can safely assume that DOOM did sell 500K units on the PC.
Bethesda has not provided any numbers about the game’s total sales, so we don’t know whether the PC version is on par – regarding sales – with its console cousins.
In addition, it will be interesting to see whether DOOM will be able to come close to the numbers of other Bethesda games. Wolfenstein: The New Order – for example – has sold one million units.
As a bonus, below you can find a video showing DOOM’s classic E1M1 map re-imagined in Snapmap!
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Would probably sell more if they didn’t bloody outsource the MP. Silly move.
thats all thats not much.
The game came out last week. It’s a great number.
It came out may 13th, its closer to 3 weeks at this point. 18 days
PC gaming always plays the long game when it comes to sales. Consoles get all their sales within a month or two and then the marketing dies off. If a PC game is supported well it sells well YEARS after its initial release.
Yeah but to a Publisher it’s all about the Day 1/Week 1 figures. It’s all about that initial number which they can subsequently brag about in Quarterly Earnings Reports.
Nobody gives a sh*t about the long game, it’s just there.
This, it’s something that people outside or inside of console gaming tend to ignore is that PC always plays the long game and will factually beat out consoles as each gen a console dies along with it’s gathered userbase who then move onto another platform or system.
just cause 3 is stuck at 567,472
What? You’re saying Denuvo didn’t magically amplify sales numbers?
But….. but….. I don’t understand.
HOW CAN THIS BE? THEY PROMISED! THEY PROMISED!
Those bastards, THEY PROMISED!
Believe me the only reason i bought Mad Max, Metal Gear 5 Rise Of The Tomb Raider Just Cause 3 Far Cry Primal is because of Denuvo . If it didnt exist then i would had downloaded them for free, So yes they are getting more sales from people like me because we dont have any other choice to play games,. At least now developers are sure that evryone who plays a game has bought it they dont have to worry about losing sales from piracy that very imporant. That why i will buy Mirror edge catalyst Deus ex mankid dived Dishnored 2 Battlefield 1 and mafia3(if it sues denuvo). Anywat the sales are good so far i am sure it will reach 1 million sales very easily it is still on topseller steam list and sells very well. Let check in about a month from now.
good thing we have g2a,kinguin,cd keys and gmg rigt we dont have to pay full price for AAA games..lol
That does not change the fact that the sales are not increasing because people like you cant pirate the games and therefore buy them.
Most pirates CANT but them or wont bother with em because they dont buy games they are NOT part of the market pool
“So yes they are getting more sales from people like me because we dont have any other choice to play games,”
Which are nothing. Dont even justify the denuvo licensing.
” because we dont have any other choice to play games”
Including demos which was the reason most people pirated them.
“,. At least now developers are sure that evryone who plays a game has bought it they dont have to worry about losing sales from piracy that very imporant. ”
No they dont have to worry about a imaginery boogeyman ruining their profits now that the numbers prove that boogeyman has the economic power of pakistan and therefore did not affect them in the first place.
” That why i will buy Mirror edge catalyst Deus ex mankid dived Dishnored 2 Battlefield 1 and mafia3(if it sues denuvo)”
Which begs the question why are you pirating games in the first place since you have the money to buy them when the vast majority of pirates dont?
In simplier terms you are pirating games because you can and buy them because you can, meaning that if you cant pirate games and cant buy the, YOU WONT BUY THEM, which means wasting money on drm.
” i am sure it will reach 1 million sales very easily it is still on topseller steam list and sells very well. Let check in about a month from now.”
Did not work for: just cause 3, rise of the tomb raider, far cry primal and many many others.
Meanwhile the cracked fallout 4 and dying light are over a million, proving what you say is nonsense.
“Which are nothing. Dont even justify the denuvo licensing.”
Makes me wonder how they’re going to justify those insane licensing costs in the long run.
I mean, the Industry’s overall agenda right now is literally “cut costs, make more money while doing it” so how exactly will they justify the high Denuvo licensing costs to their Shareholders once they ask them for the results of their “Absolute Anti-Piracy Shield”? ^^
P.S. Poor Pakistani’s. 😀
Well, most of the people who go to colleges and give lectures on how bad piracy is for the industry are RIAA and MPAA shills. Now that they dont have any numbers to back up their nonsense, it makes you wonder what they will do. The problem with denuvo is not the licensing costs as much as the complexity of the maintenance of the drm. updates introduce new checks and triggers which means that in order to protect a game with denuvo, you need to keep updating it. Which means that at some point it will be impossible to keep up with all the games that use denuvo and require the studio who made it to maintain it and that it will be so complex that it will be impossible to crack.
So it is not something that is well thought out to the future, not that it matters since in the future you will see either always online drm or cloud on all games.
Hahahahaha remember a few years ago when Cloud Gaming first started, all those Anti-Piracy idiots were writing fluff pieces about “The Death of Piracy”? 😀
I’ve been wondering for a while… but why do you think Denuvo is bad… I don’t see the problem, at least I never experienced a problem
This is a honest question, so please give an honest answer 🙂
The problem is that Denuvo is uncrackeable atm, and also that Denuvo is not improving the sales of said uncrackeable games :^).
“why do you think Denuvo is bad..”
I never said it is bad, i am saying it is pointless since it costs alot of money and time to maintain yet it does not improve sales.
Which gives me the opportunity to stick it to all the morons that claim piracy is destroying pc gaming without any proof. Just theoretical lost copies based on a supposed increasing rate of downloads by taking in account the popularity and sales of the game.
Also stick it to “no this game on pc because piracy” morons.
Now we do have for the first time ever a uncrackable drm used in every game and the sale are NOT increasing. So piracy is a joke.
But people like me that are broke af still aren’t buying games.
You don’t count.
;D
Aww… Oh well.
And the only reason i didn’t bought those was bacuse of denuvo. hell i even bought MGS GZ for 20$ to support them, the game i wasn’t even intersted in but i paid 20$ for an over priced demo but didn’t get the full game because of that s**ty DRM. so no, they are getting less sales from people like me because people always have choices. That’s why i will skip all of them.
Mad Max and MGSV was cracked. You should have waited a little bit moar :^)
Mgsv was partially cracked and just cause 3 probably never will.
I am saying exactly that primal is 150k, adrift is at 9k.
Damn, I see what this is now…..
The Filthy PC Pirate Master Race have a Propaganda Machine now (too), eh?
I SEE THROUGH YOUR LIES, YOU LOWLY THIEVING SCUM! YOU DO NOT FOOL ME!
If not Dnuvo it will be Better Sales IMO 😉
PPL try the Game and they go shoping as always.
But if game is Crap is Crap .Period.
dont we judge success for big AAA if it hits 1m sales? if it didnt hit that it was as good as we thought.
It is not much. Indeed. Hope it gets past the 1million mark.
Would have been more if Bethesda didn’t market the garbage multiplayer and we only knew that the campaign was going to be great very near the release. We only seen PC footage from NVIDIA and terrible marketing to PC users, you know, it’s only the platform that defined the genre. PC users won’t be interested in a solid Doom SP game at all will they? No let’s market it to Halo players instead, Bethesda f*cking morons.
all doom had going for it was its sp.13 hr isnt enough to justify $60.
Tell that to Uncharted 4 players who don’t want MP. :p
true but some actually like it for some reason.its still not a bad as gears of war 4 multiplayer.i cant stand how the screen moves when the walk in gears.
Yeah but Uncharted’s MP isn’t exactly legendary, it’s just another one of those “tack it on & check the box” experiences, unlike DOOM’s.
lol
But still im playing in Unreal Tournament Free -> Better Multi IMO & Free and Better GFX 😉 and works better on any Video Card.
Absolutely perfect comment.
I like the multi player, not my fault if you bad taste. That and Beteshda is plotting to sell us more MP as DLC. Anyway the verdict is in now: SP is GOTY material.
yes im pc user and i play only sp ,the rest is more than dead,multiplayer gamers just copy over and over,repeting everything,but people still buy them,fools
Snap map SUUUUUCKS
Agreed!
console peasants SUUUUUUUUCK
I still have not bought it. Waiting for my Gigabyte GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming, then I will buy DOOM.
“E1M1” now with objective markers and enemies that can’t hurt you unless you blow them up in melee range. Like one of those “modern FPS” parodies ffs. Terrible map.
The design really could use some work. Should’ve removed the markers and put more zombie gunners in there. There were too many slow-moving Unwilling for it to be similar to the original.
I guess the next game in the list is Quake? 🙂 I wonder if they will make a oldschool Quake 3 game, or Quake 4 like game.. hmm.
Original Lovecraftian Quake pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Yep yep 🙂 we need more Gothic places, with cool scary octopus like monsters around. xD
And limb throwing zombies, those were my favorite ones.
They never run out of flesh. xD
And their noise is so spoopy.
Great, now I have a Quake itch.
Yea. 🙂 Quake was my first FPS game i played. Its super nostalgic for me..
Now that you’ve mentioned, I believe it was my first FPS too , or at least the first that I’ve finished (memories are quite rusty). It was the N64 version though, still fun times. 🙂
Hmm, maybe not the first then.. on the NES, i had a Jurassic park game with a FP camera mode. But meh. 😛 Its not even a game.
NES or SNES? I vaguely remember messing with that aswell at a friend’s house.
Likewise.
Though, Q3A in my case 😀
I like quake 2 personally
At $30 (re sellers) ~ $60, so that gives us… erm… some millions of dollahs.
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
OK cool story man, dont troll like that.
“Im certain that it sold around 4 Million on consoles”
did not happen in rage
“Its a barebones mediocre console FPS”
— You’re still to prove “how” though. I’m referring to the previous discussion I had with you. Of course, if you’re just stating your opinion, it’s fine.
“theres a Season Pass”
— Which is for multiplayer content only.
“the old games are Open Source”
— The engine is open-source, not the complete game.
“but that was the intended audience in the first place”
— The intended audience is on multiple platforms, not just on either console or PC. And there’s no opinion involved in this one.
It sold less than any AAA game that came out this year on PC except Hitman. Xcom 2 and DS3 both sold over 700k in their first week (3weeks and still not there). not to mention games like stellaris…
Are you stupid or what? I’m blaming Bethesda for the marketing, they are the publisher and what the publishers says goes because they hold the money bags.
Well I did mention I am okay with the locked areas since they prevent you from speedrunning through the map and ignoring enemies. In fact, I’m glad they implemented that.
Also, gameplay isn’t designed around glory kills as I mentioned before. I myself only tend to use glory kills when I get a “low health” indication. If you have so much trouble surviving without relying solely on glory kills, consider lowering the difficulty. And low enemy count in SnapMap? I completely agree. In campaign? No, since it’s similar to the original Doom more or less. In fact like I mentioned before, enemies here are more resilient if anything, since they don’t suffer from the drawbacks that the original monsters do with regard to elevated geometry.
“console fps”
no reload, fast paced moving speed, secrets, you can carry all weapons, no aim down the sights
“barebones”
I challenge to name a shooter on pc that is more oldschool that this, shadow warrior and hard reset definitely are not.
The entire game is filled with references to the old dooms how on earth is it meant for console gamers?
remember when the first doom was out? i still have floppy disk and a bunch of copies to leave the original untouched XD
That proves snapmap sucks as well as mp. Just that. Which is something we all agree.
You do realize you MORON that serious sam had locked arenas? As for low enemy count compared to what? Only serious sam and painkiller have more.
Oh and another thing for all you whiners about the glory kills and the weapon selection system. Picking up health pickups during combat does not work, you dont have the time to do that. The idea of doom and most importantly brutal doom that this game was based on, is to RIP AND TEAR to be aggressive. So the glory system works. Also do play doom with weapon mods and try switching between 18 weapons or so, it is not easy, you need a weapon selection system.
Freaking nostlagiatards
ATENTION EVERYONE GET THE FIRE EXTINTOR AND WIPE THE FIRE OF THIS CONSOLE MATE’S BUTT!
I havent owned a console since the PS2, what are you rambling about?
… yet it is a good game and no amount of stomping your feet will change that 🙂
Elaborate in why its a good game.
Tell me why I shouldnt be playing Painkiller or Serious Sam instead?