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$666 edition of Doom includes game box that, itself, plays Doom (www.engadget.com)
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[–] wizzim@infosec.pub 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This edition is available for Switch, PS5, Xbox > Series X/S and PC. The PC version, however, ships with a download code and not physical copies of both games. Preorders start on April 18 and end on May 18, with a release sometime after that.

For 666$, no physical game copy for the PC ?

I always find shitty when multiplatform deluxe limited editions are inferior on PC than on console, but here it's even worse: Doom 2 is THE PC game.

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Most PCs don't even have a disc drive anymore. And physical is way inferior to digital. Fuck swapping discs.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 26 points 6 days ago

A USB drive could easily be included.

For that much money it should be a custom one shaped like a BFG or something!

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Some old floppy disks like the OG version would be a nice novelty, even if noone used them. EvE online did a thing like that for its 20th birthday box. They included a floppy disk with some old game data on it (I think it was part of an ARG, but I just had fun trying to read the data)

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 days ago

they included cassette tapes... not many folks have those either.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

For $666 they could afford to ship a SD Card and an USB card reader.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For 666$, no physical game copy for the PC ?

Let's not act like anybody on PC cares about discs anymore. Besides, there are a million ways you can play Doom at this point.

[–] wizzim@infosec.pub 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The point was trying to make is that PC is often a second rate citizen in these collectors editions.

My guess is that if you're customer of these editions, you want a "beautiful" object full of goodies, and, as a collector item, you won't open them or use them anyway.

I guess this is the reason they started to make them without a version of game included these last few years.