DOOM: The Dark Ages achieves studio’s biggest launch* with 3 million players

Launching just last week, DOOM: The Dark Ages is the latest title from id Software – the studio known for their work on the DOOM franchise as well as their performant idTech engine. Though not quite as universally praised as 2016’s reboot, the 3rd entry in this new trilogy has proven to be a hit; surpassing 3 million players to become the fastest-performing game in the studio’s history – albeit with some caveats.

Making the announcement on BlueSky, the official Bethesda Softworks page wrote the following: “Thank you for making DOOM: The Dark Ages the biggest launch in id's history – 7x faster to 3 million players than DOOM Eternal.”

Of course, while 3 million players is a massive achievement for such a short amount of time, it is worth noting that DOOM The Dark Ages is a day-one Game Pass addition – something which the aforementioned DOOM Eternal did not benefit from (arriving on the service 5 months after launch).

As such, while passing 3 million players 7 times faster than DOOM Eternal is worthy of note, it is equally important to understand the context of this announcement. It will be interesting to see how long we’ll have to wait for the next player count update.

KitGuru says: Are you one of the 3 million players? Did you purchase the game or play through Game Pass? Which entry in the new DOOM trilogy is your favourite? Let us know down below.

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