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DooM, the first one, was likely a commercial failure. They made the shareware episodes too generous, and plenty of people played them in multiplayer for days. D
by b0rsuk 7y ago
DooM, the first one, was likely a commercial failure. They made the shareware episodes too generous, and plenty of people played them in multiplayer for days. DooM 2 was a map pack with several new monsters and a new weapon, but most importantly it was meant to pay for DooM 1.
- onion2k 7y agoIf you limit it to just the PC shareware version then perhaps. If you include all the special editions and the ports as part of the same game then there's no way it was a failure. It's been released about 50 times..
- smcl 7y agoFailure in the sense that they "left money on the table" so to speak, maybe. But by all accounts even with the generous shareware episode they did extremely well for themselves.
- ido 7y agoIt still sold a ton (multiple millions of units): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)#Commercial_and_spreading_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)#Commerc...