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Zkuq on 11 August 2022
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JEMC said:

Doom and Quake are being cleaned up for newcomers in time for QuakeCon
https://www.pcgamer.com/doom-and-quake-are-being-cleaned-up-for-newcomers-in-time-for-quakecon/
Id Software has been quietly working on making its Steam library of old games less of a confusing sprawl. Starting yesterday, the company has begun consolidating the various versions, expansions, and mission packs of the older Doom and Quake games into single packages "so that newcomers have an easier time".

This... might actually not be bad. All Doom 3 games, including BFG Edition, have been combined to one product simply called Doom 3... and it costs only 10€, which is less than BFG Edition used to cost. And all previous owners of the original Doom 3 got a free upgrade to the new product containing BFG Edition! In other news, I'm now a happy owner of Doom 3 on Steam, for the low price of £1 (on Gamesplanet), so now I have BFG Edition on PC as well.

The bad thing about this is that what used to take up only a few gigabytes is now 11 GB, which, while not that bad, is still something that's not as easy to just leave there when you have to clean up to make room for a new game. In case you were wondering, installing what's now called Doom 3 installs 1) the original 2) the Resurrection of Evil expansion, and 3) BFG Edition, so you can't install them separately. (The same goes for the old Doom games, but who cares about a few megabytes?)