- The highly-anticipated first person-shooter Doom Eternal launched today.
- Players have uncovered a DRM-free executable among the game files.
- It’s not the first time Bethesda has made the mistake as we saw last year with Rage 2.
Multiple sources report that Bethesda has inadvertently left a DRM-free version of Doom Eternal in the game files.
As was reported earlier this week, Doom Eternal features the contentious Denuvo anti-tamper technology . The anti-piracy tech requires players to activate the game online as a means of testing that it is indeed a genuine copy and not a pirated version.
Doom Eternal Features a DRM-Free Executable
Yet, Bethesda appears to have done all the hard work for the pirates out there. Nestled in the game files is a DRM-free executable of Doom Eternal, which effectively bypasses the anti-piracy measures.
The results first surfaced on shady forum cs. rin.ru before finding their way on to the CrackWatch Subreddit , where pirates convene to exchanges info and links to pirated games.
Reddit user BarryGettman reports that alongside the genuine Denuvo-enabled executable DoomEternalx 258 vk.exe is another sitting in a folder called ‘original.’ It appears Besthesda may have quite simply forgotten to remove it when the game launched in the early hours of today .
Multiple responses in the thread suggest the executable works on both Steam and Bethesda launcher versions of Doom Eternal . Screenshots show users successfully launching the game.
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