hardware and software enthusiast who loves making mindless projects has added microtransactions to DOOM. With Guy Dupont’s mod for DOOM, every time you pick up an item in the game you have to pay via a QR code.
In Dupont’s post at X, he describes his thoughts on the tech world’s obsession with running DOOM on everything. It also demonstrates how DOOM’s microtransactions are not-so-subtly woven into the gameplay.
We need to STOP running DOOM on everything and START adding new things to DOOM.
The implementation of this idea was not very subtle, but such a blatant method certainly attracts attention and may remind gamers of how widespread and invisible microtransactions have become, due to which the most profitable games in the world are not AAA titles, but mobile money vacuum cleaners .
We need to STOP running DOOM on new things
and START putting new things into DOOM.For example, today I added micro-transactions to the original game. Any time you pick up an item, the game freezes until you make a payment. pic.twitter.com/p9j9eYyOwJ
— Guy Dupont (@gvy_dvpont) April 13, 2024