Hacked Doom Mod Forces Players to Pay to Continue Game
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Someone created a hacked version of the original Doom that pauses the game and shows a QR code every time you pick up an item, forcing you to pay a small fee via your phone to continue playing.
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This "terrible" Doom mod was created for the annual "Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon" which celebrates dumb, useless, and horrible tech hacks.
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The modder, Guy Dupont, modified the Chocolate Doom source port by adding libcurl and writing a Python server to generate QR codes and handle payments.
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Dupont hopes no publishers get ideas from this to put real microtransactions in classic retro games or limit lives/continues without payment.
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The mod essentially recreates how an arcade machine works by taking payment to continue playing, much to the creator's chagrin once he realized it.