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DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies (80.lv)
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[–] simple@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's what Microsoft wanted. Me and a friend bought a month of game pass to play through Oblivion and Doom Dark Ages then unsubscribed. I doubt they're going to keep doing day 1 releases in the long run because this might be hurting their game studios.

[–] duchess@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You subscribing to Game Pass is exactly what they want and why they keep so many studios.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dunno. A 10€ all you can eat vs 70€ single payment sounds pretty logical ro me

[–] duchess@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Well Microsoft’s marketing isn’t stupid.

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but what you mean with day 1 releases?

[–] LastWish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Typically subscription plans dont give you access to titles on day 1 of release. You have a choice of buying it or waiting.

Gamepass gives access to many titles day 1.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

They made it tiered last year - some titles like CoD are on GamePass Ultimate only.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

They released on game pass the same day the game launched everywhere else.