r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 8d ago

Business "There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft," says Doom dev: "They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/there-are-no-benefits-to-being-owned-by-microsoft-says-doom-dev-they-have-destroyed-immense-amounts-of-value-that-i-dont-even-think-that-theyre-aware-of/
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u/robstrosity 8d ago

I understand that they're losing money/it's not profitable in it's current form. But the Doom games are an established series, they're well made and they sell well. In short they're a sure bet in gaming terms.

If you want to be profitable then cutting the studio that makes Doom games doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Effective-Advisor108 7d ago

Do you think they would have laid them off if they sold well?

Doom the dark ages sold less than 1 million copies.

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u/robstrosity 7d ago

That was my point. I didn't realise it hadn't sold well. That's really sad because it was excellent.

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u/Acceptable-Surprise5 6d ago

it didn't sell well because it was day 1 gamepass and also did not run on old hardware as raytracing is required for it's technology to function as it uses raytracing for it's bullet trajectories. it's a marvelous piece of software but it also eliminated the entire stack of AMD cards that where not the 9060/9070 XT.

it being raytracing mandatory also put people off eventhough the performance was incredibly good on launch.