Bethesda.net Launcher Says Goodbye

[The Blue Cryptid]

Summary

Bethesda will be shutting down Bethesda.net servers and allowing users to migrate their games and data to Steam starting in April.

 

Quote (From an E-Mail sent out by Bethesda)

Quote

"We’re saying goodbye to the Bethesda.net Launcher this year. We would like to thank you for your support and assure you that all of your games are safe. If you’re not playing PC games through the Bethesda.net launcher then your work is done here. Thanks for reading! If you do have games through the Bethesda.net launcher, don’t worry. Starting in early April you’ll be able to migrate your games and Wallet to your Steam account." 

 

My thoughts

While I don't like the market narrowing for gaming platforms, I have to admit that Steam is my preferred service and it'll be nice to not have to launch a different program just to play my Bethesda games I got on sale that ended up being for that launcher. I just feel, like Blizzard, that the Bethesda.net Launcher wasn't very useful as its catalog was just a few Bethesda games. I'm wondering if this is part of Microsoft's acquisition, eventually moving some of the titles to Game Pass.

 

Sources

https://bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam

[Wheezey]

9 minutes ago, The Blue Cryptid said:

Summary

Bethesda will be shutting down Bethesda.net servers and allowing users to migrate their games and data to Steam starting in April.

 

Quote (From an E-Mail sent out by Bethesda)

 

My thoughts

While I don't like the market narrowing for gaming platforms, I have to admit that Steam is my preferred service and it'll be nice to not have to launch a different program just to play my Bethesda games I got on sale that ended up being for that launcher. I just feel, like Blizzard, that the Bethesda.net Launcher wasn't very useful as its catalog was just a few Bethesda games. I'm wondering if this is part of Microsoft's acquisition, eventually moving some of the titles to Game Pass.

 

Sources

https://bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam

oh wow, something bethesda has done that i like 

[Eaglerino]

One down...

[kaylexmorgana]

Now get rid of ushit, origin and epic games and I'll be happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MarvinKMooney]

Just now, Eaglerino said:

One down...

Your forgot about Riot games has its own launcher now!! Isn’t it just amazing!!!….

[Taf the Ghost]

Somehow, they're going to brick some Doom copies, again.

[OhioYJ]

15 minutes ago, kaylexmorgana said:

Now get rid of ushit, origin and epic games and I'll be happy.

You don't have to use them? Well... Ok some games you buy on Steam still force you to use Origin, etc. However I know Epic for example, I don't use. I'd rather buy a game on Steam than use Epic (for "free" games). For exclusive games, I just don't play them. Vote with your wallet.

[Wheezey]

18 minutes ago, Viridian said:

Your forgot about Riot games has its own launcher now!! Isn’t it just amazing!!!….

They keep multiplying, EA had twins with the EA Launcher or whatever the hell its called

[Salv8 (sam)]

lets celebrate boys!

 

[Forbidden Wafer]

25 minutes ago, Wheezey said:

They keep multiplying, EA had twins with the EA Launcher or whatever the hell its called

What is ea even doing these days? Stopped caring after the shit show that was Battlefront 2.

[dizmo]

11 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

What is ea even doing these days? Stopped caring after the shit show that was Battlefront 2.

You're not missing anything. They've murdered Battlefield. 

[Brooksie359]

59 minutes ago, Wheezey said:

oh wow, something bethesda has done that i like 

Tbh it makes sense that they would shut it down seeing as they were bought by Microsoft so it seems weird to have a store front for a small section of games when they can just be on Microsofts store and steam. Microsoft probably was the one who pushed for them to shut it down tbh. 

[Wheezey]

3 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Tbh it makes sense that they would shut it down seeing as they were bought by Microsoft so it seems weird to have a store front for a small section of games when they can just be on Microsofts store and steam. Microsoft probably was the one who pushed for them to shut it down tbh. 

You are right, most likely was Microsofts call. But I am still glad that it won't be around anymore

[poochyena]

2 hours ago, kaylexmorgana said:

Now get rid of ushit, origin and epic games and I'll be happy.

 

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

[Forbidden Wafer]

3 minutes ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

Why is it so hard to get together and build a MoviesAnywhere-like platform for games? Use the freaking storefront you want, and move your games across them as you like. 

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

You're not missing anything. They've murdered Battlefield. 

it was a war crime

 

At least EA has or had? A 2 week return window regardless of how much you played.

[poochyena]

24 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

Why is it so hard to get together and build a MoviesAnywhere-like platform for games? Use the freaking storefront you want, and move your games across them as you like. 

You already can https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4B8B-9697-2338-40EC

or just put all your game shortcuts into a single folder.

[Shreyas1]

2 hours ago, Eaglerino said:

One down...

 

2 hours ago, kaylexmorgana said:

Now get rid of ushit, origin and epic games and I'll be happy.

Pretty sure that EA made their games available on steam right?

 

47 minutes ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

Nah this is one of the few instances that less competition is a good thing. Steam is less shit than most of the other launchers anyways and if they go rouge it wouldn't be hard for those companies to restart their launchers. I personally don't want to deal with 5-6 launchers with some only existing to play one game

 

Also you guys are forgetting about xbox, they have their own launcher with gamepass as well.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 hours ago, kaylexmorgana said:

Now get rid of ushit, origin and epic games and I'll be happy.

 

Origin, and ubisoft connect YES

EGS has a lot of great things, like my 50 game cataloug of games i never payed for

 

also get rid of battle.net and rockstars launcher and id be happy

[kaylexmorgana]

2 hours ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

yeah, just what i want is 10 more bloatwares on my pc. "wrong"

4 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

Vote with your wallet.

Nothing makes me cringe more than hearing this line.

 

No one likes those shitty launchers yet they still exist. All ran by BILLION dollar companies... that means they can never go out of business no matter how many of you "vote with your wallet".

[Kisai]

2 hours ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

Because people don't want stores that only exist as DRM.

 

The thing that sucks about EA Origin and Ubisoft UPlay is that they are DRM and the multiplayer requirement. So if you want to play a game that uses either of these, you can only play then with others on the SAME platform. So PC players get stuck with PC players. Console players don't get to play with PC players, or any other console players.

[Forbidden Wafer]

3 hours ago, poochyena said:

You already can https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4B8B-9697-2338-40EC

or just put all your game shortcuts into a single folder.

No, no, no. MoviesAnywhere let's you manage the same movie licenses across different services. Buy once, use everywhere. 

[Brooksie359]

4 hours ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

Let's be honest here and say what all know to be true. Those platforms aren't real competition to Steam as much as they would like to be. 

[Derangel]

5 hours ago, poochyena said:

yea, less competition, how could that possibly go wrong?

It really wasn’t competition. No single-publisher launcher is ever going to be competition to Steam. EGS is the closest we have and even that is a pretty far 2nd place really only surviving because Epic has bottomless pockets. While Epic continues to do the bare minimum to improve their store it’s going to remain that way, no matter how much they spend on timed exclusives.

[The Blue Cryptid]

10 minutes ago, Derangel said:

It really wasn’t competition. No single-publisher launcher is ever going to be competition to Steam. EGS is the closest we have and even that is a pretty far 2nd place really only surviving because Epic has bottomless pockets. While Epic continues to do the bare minimum to improve their store it’s going to remain that way, no matter how much they spend on timed exclusives.

Agreed. Almost all launchers that aren't Steam mainly just provide their own games rather than acting as a "marketplace" like Steam and EGS. The way I see things going it's gonna end up being Steam and Epic holding the status quo while things like GreenManGaming, Humble, and Fanatical become more popular for alternate purchasing avenues.