Doom Eternal smashed the first day on Steam and the Stream, but a major miss was made

Bethesda and id Software may be happy - Doom Eternal has attracted twice as many players to PC than Doom from 2016.

As for quarantine, and because of the hunger for high-budget games, Doom Eternal achieved a great result yesterday on launch day itself. According to statistics on Steam, the new Doom finished yesterday among the ten most played games with more than 100,000 players playing the game simultaneously. By comparison, the 2016 Doom played a maximum of 44,000 players at one time.

To make things even better for Doom Eternal and id Software, the game was also extremely popular on Twitch - over 115,000 people watched it. Bethesda has no direct earnings from this, but it is clear that interest in the brutal Doom is quite high.

But the launch of the game did not turn out to be the most fun for Bethesda. By someone's inattention, the game was launched in the PC version with the DRM-free version of the executable file. Since Doom Eternal uses Denuvo's protection, it turns out that id Software left the door open for pirating its game.