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Bethesda Launcher Making Me Buy Fallout 76 Again

You can at present transfer your Bethesda Launcher games to Steam

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Information technology lived for a while merely never really grew up. The Bethesda Launcher arrived in 2016, simply it unfortunately didn't evolve into much of anything too a desktop customer with two buttons: purchase game and play game.

And now it's being switched off. On May 11 the Bethesda Launcher will become officially defunct, and every bit promised, starting today you tin migrate your Bethesda Launcher games library over to Steam. Annotation: You'll yet be able migrate your games later May xi when the launcher is expressionless. You merely won't exist able to use the launcher itself anymore. So, you might too do it at present.

Bethesda has a total list of instructions on how to begin the neat Steam migration, but basically you'll start past trying to log on to the Bethesda site, realizing you have no idea what your password is because you haven't logged in there in ages, resetting it, so logging into the Bethesda site. On your account page, there are sidebar tabs to link your Steam and Bethesda accounts (if y'all oasis't already) and to begin the transfer process.

I did information technology this morning and it went without a hitch, though your experience may differ: I only owned four games through the launcher and I'd already linked my Steam and Bethesda accounts for some long-forgotten reason. Only, it worked and only took a few minutes. My Bethesda games are at present safely in my Steam account, and it fifty-fifty transferred the Fallout 76 Atoms I had in my Bethesda wallet.

Transferring your saved games may exist a bit more of a hassle, depending on which games the saves are for. And then let me direct y'all to the FAQ on transferring salve progress, where you tin can check each individual game to see if whatsoever actress effort is required on your function. The migration will bring over save files automatically for a number of games (like Fallout 76, Fallout 3, and Doom 3) but for others like Deathloop, you'll take to manually re-create the data from the original location and plop information technology into the new ane.

Transferring salvage data for Doom Eternal seems especially complicated considering it won't transfer automatically and can't exist done manually. Information technology really needs to be done with a conversion tool. Doom Eternal has its ain separate listing of instructions here. Bluntly, it sounds like hell.

As for subscriptions to Fallout 76's Fallout 1st membership, that'due south got a whole page of its own. An existing membership will continue until information technology naturally expires, but renewing an expired membership or starting a new 1 volition need to be done through Steam from now on. Though the Bethesda launcher will continue to piece of work until May 11, all real-money transactions are halting at present.

The data migration hasn't been polish sailing for anybody, and some players have registered complaints about the account linking non working. Other issues might be resolved past installing and launching a game once it'south migrated to Steam: for instance, some users reported purchasing the deluxe edition of Rage 2 from Bethesda but found simply the standard edition had migrated to their Steam accounts. Apparently, once the game is actually downloaded and launched on Steam, the Deluxe DLC will appear.

If you're struggling, you can ever create a support ticket here, and then cross every bit many fingers as you tin that you'll receive a solution quickly.

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years equally a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably and then he'd terminate emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a dearest-detest relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He'due south also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his ain.

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Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-now-transfer-your-bethesda-launcher-games-to-steam/