FYI Doom The Dark Ages was available day 1 on game pass and they were boasting on social media that they had over 3 million players on the first week if I remember right.

It's Microsoft's fault the game didn't sell. Most people (me included) opted to subscribe to game pass for a month instead.

Wait, there's a new doom game? (Not joking, just noting that I've missed any mention of this whatsoever)

Dark Ages is meh. 2016 was legitimately fresh, and Eternal went a kind of interesting direction, but they legitimately need to take some time and go in a brand brand new direction if they want to make more than four of these games, because the "push forward" formula + lofi sf&f aesthetic alone is not going to cut it on its own.

I bought Doom 2016 and it literally wouldn't even get past the loading screen. I tried every suggestion I found online and none of them worked. I ended up refunding. It's why I never even considered the next two.

Edit: Why is this a controversial take?

I think that's Bethesda being incompetent as fuck. They burned bridge with Mick Gordon, after Doom Eternal then instead of making dynamic well optimized game they made I'd make Dark Ages.