Report: DOOM Eternal Battle Pass Confirmed Along With “Boosters” (Update)

DOOM Eternal Update 1.11

While video game publishers seem to have moved away from map packs and the like, it seems Battle Passes are now quickly becoming the go-to source of post-release revenue for most games. If this latest look at DOOM Eternal is any indication, we should be getting a DOOM Eternal Battle Pass available at launch.

In Giant Bomb’s 30-minute gameplay look at the game, near the end, you’ll see the familiar Battle Pass rank up and progression screen. In another part, you can also clearly see a “Boosters” category in the menu, which we presume will be for paid boosters in order to progress through your DOOM Eternal Battle Pass quicker.

You can catch the stuff in the screens above right around the 29-minute mark.

We’ve reached out to Bethesda about this and will update the post if we hear anything back.

Of course, given how successful games like Fortnite, Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare have been with the Battle Pass system, it’s only a matter of time until other games do the same, and it seems that time is happening now.

Are you OK with DOOM Eternal employing a Battle Pass system assuming it only rewards cosmetic items? Or should publishers re-think this method lest players quickly sour at it?

Update 1/31/20: We got an email from Bethesda stating that DOOM Eternal won’t feature any paid Battle Pass. When asked about the boosters, the studio said they aren’t talking about it at this time. Read the entire story about that here.

 

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zero
zero
4 years ago

I am SO FUCKING SICK & TIRED OF GOD DAMN BATTLE PASSES. They were meant for FREE TO PLAY GAMES to make up for the game being FREE. Now they put this shit in EVERY FUCKING $60 GAME & YOU GET SCREWED OVER ROYALLY BECAUSS 80% OF IT IS FILLER BULLSHIT that adds ABSOLUTELY ZERO VALUE For the PRICE YOU ALREADY PAID WHEN U BOUGHT THE GAME & THE PRICE OF A CRAPPY BATTLE PASS.

A SEASON PASS WITH MAP PACKS WAS 10000000% BETTER. Now you get BENT OVER & DRY FUCKED.

Jimmy Bacon
Jimmy Bacon
Reply to  zero
4 years ago

guess what, hugo martin confirmed that the only way to earn xp is by playing the game and all of the rewards on that are FREE, 0 micro-transactions, BOOSTERS CAUSE YOU TO BOOST OTHER PLAYERS, NOT WITH MONEY
AKA FREE, NO MONEY, NO PURCHASES, 0 BUCKEROOS

mohamed abotgar
mohamed abotgar
Reply to  Jimmy Bacon
4 years ago

i’m 100% convinced that it would have mtx until fallout 76 blow in bethesda’s face then they removed the way to buy those stuff in doom eternal but it was a hassle to remove the entire system.

Lenin Soriano
Lenin Soriano
Reply to  zero
4 years ago

You sound braindead, Zero

h4rr4r
h4rr4r
4 years ago

I just hope this doesn’t ruin single player.

Andrey Bogdanov
Andrey Bogdanov
4 years ago

Don’t care for cosmetic, just won’t use it, as long as fhey don’t give players competitive advantage for money

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