The Dark Ages is a big release for Game Pass, and though Microsoft would love to sell copies to players the old-fashioned way, the company is also keen to grow Game Pass memberships. This is part of why we’re hearing more and more about player numbers, and not necessarily raw sales.

An additional nugget on DOOM: The Dark Ages’ performance has been shared by journalist Chris Dring on X (or Twitter ), who says analyst firm Ampere is estimating over two million of the game’s players so far are on Xbox.