Back in February, Bethesda announced plans to place a merciful bullet in the brain at Bethesda Launcher, an unloved alternative to certain other popular digital game management programs. These plans have since been elaborated in an update to a blog post about sunset launch and migration to Steam. “If you have games through the Bethesda.net launcher,” it says, “don’t worry. From April 27, you’ll be able to migrate your games and Wallet to your Steam account.”
Detailed instructions on what to do will be given on April 27th. Some games will have their saved transfer automatically, while others will require you to manually copy them to the appropriate folder. “At this time,” Bethesda writes, “we expect almost all saved progress to be transferred automatically or manually, with the exception of Wolfenstein: Youngblood, who is currently unable to transfer.” DLC and in-game currency are transferred automatically, which is good news
The Bethesda Launcher will stay up and running until May 11, but even if you do not get all your games transferred to Steam when someone with a high enough speaking ability convinces them to self-destruct, you will still be able to upload them thereafter. .
Also, do not throw away your Bethesda.net login information. “For games that require it, you will still use your Bethesda.net login to log in to play. Your Bethesda.net account will not be lost and will still be available on our website and in the game, and we will continue to support all Bethesda.net stands for our future titles. “
Although it never managed to annoy me as much as Uplay, now known as Ubisoft Connect, which still does not start if I check “remember my details” when I log in, Bethesda Launcher was a nasty software that I won ‘Miss of – at least when I migrated my copies of Arx Fatalis and Quake 2 to Steam.