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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

From the wiki:

By late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 95. According to Wilbur, by June 1996 it had been downloaded 20 million times. According to PC Data, by April 1998 Doom's shareware edition had yielded 1.36 million units sold and US$8.74 million in revenue in the United States. This led PC Data to declare it the country's 4th-best-selling computer game since 1993.

Lots of people still didn't have good Internet access in the 90s, so shareware was often sold for cheap in software stores— especially Doom.

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's hard to recall, but I'm my country you'd get the shareware floppies from a special rack at the computer store. I can't remember the price but it might have been a few dollars

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Not sure if it's better or worse, but I get "full of shit" vibes from this story. Like he just wanted a "look how unconventional we were" story and didn't think through how it sounded. Who knows

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

No since the first episode was free anyway they didn't make money on it, but they wanted more copies distributed as much as possible so people would pay for the additional episodes they actually sold. Its a good sales strategy.