Bethesda Launcher will be shutting down on May 11
Back in February, Bethesda announced plans to place a benevolent bullet in the brains of the Bethesda Launcher, an unpopular replacement for certain other popular digital game management programs.These plans have since been updated Blog post about deactivating the launcher and migrating to Steam“If you do have games through the Bethesda.net launcher,” it said, “don’t worry. Beginning April 27, you’ll be able to migrate your games and wallets to your Steam account.”
Detailed instructions on what to do will be provided on April 27. Some game saves are transferred automatically, while others require manual copying into the relevant folder. “Currently,” Bethesda wrote, “we expect that almost all save progress can be transferred automatically or manually, with the exception of Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which cannot be transferred at this time.” DLC and in-game currency will automatically transfer, good news
The Bethesda Launcher will run until May 11, but even if you don’t transfer all your games to Steam until someone with high enough voice skills convinces it to self-destruct, you can still transfer them later.
Also don’t throw away your Bethesda.net login details. “For games that require it, you will still be logged in with your Bethesda.net login to play the game. Your Bethesda.net account will not be lost, it will still be accessible on our website and in games, and we will continue to support all Bethesda. net account with our future titles.”
While it never bothered me like Uplay (now called Ubisoft Connect) it still wouldn’t launch if I ticked the “remember my details” box when I logged in, Bethesda Launcher is one I wouldn’t Favorite software doesn’t miss out — at least, after I migrated copies of Arx Fatalis and Quake 2 to Steam.