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[–] 11 points 5 days ago*

Iirc doom was pretty widely pirated at the time, I might double check.

Edit: Romero estimates roughly 70-90% of copies were pirated, which would be actually insane given the popularity of the time

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/doom-legend-john-romero-says-the-fps-games-20-million-shareware-players-were-not-pirates-by-default-and-history-is-messier-than-pirates-killed-the-companies/

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