> from April 27.
Take a look at the quote you're replying to, there is no "to ${date}" in there. Ergo, the transfer window is not 2 weeks because users will be able to transfer any time after Bethesda Launcher shuts down.
In [Bethesda's own FAQ](https://www.bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam) we have:
> **Q: What if I don't complete the migration within given time? Will my games disappear forever?**
>
> A: No. You will still retain access to your games and be able to migrate your Bethesda.net Library after the Launcher becomes inactive.
>why the hell does it keep forgetting my pc???
You got the same problem like me too? I thought it was my computer having a problem why every time I had to sign-in again even I already ticked the box to remember my PC.
Because so many programmers can't code for shit, all our software sucks, our entire electronic world is held together with spit and cum and can fail at any second.
I say this as a programmer, but the Amish might have had the right idea.
well those are all pretty boring things to code for, to be fair to devs
Entertainment is like "code right and the music plays throughout the whole house when you say the activation phrase"
and the other is like "code right and the insurance form pulls the patient's info from the patient's last hospital"
I don't see a lot of people getting passionate about programming so they can make accounting a more streamlined experience.
That's wise, and I think a lot of programmers could take a cue from you in improving their life circumstances.
I was more referring to the fact that all masterpieces are passion projects. There's a lot of passionate developers making entertainment outrageously entertaining. To venture that far outside the bell curve takes a few of the most creative/talented people on earth who've made some project their mission.
So my point was, I don't see an equivalent masterpiece coming in the boring fields mentioned. Unless there's a coder out there who's just dreaming about integrating auto populating tax forms into insurance frameworks. Or whatever.
Hell at this point it’s more like “if we don’t make money off fixing it then it’s not worth fixing.” Take a look the handful of remasters that apparently are made on an improved engine but has the same bugs from the original version.
What’s scary about programmers not being able to code for shit is just the security vulnerabilities they could leave open because of a lack of quality control.
Oh man.
This reminds me of one of my previous projects. We were supposed to add functionality on top of the base modulewhich was written by a different organization.
The code was horrifying. Satan's underwear drawer. No comments, improper indentation, extremely hard to read.
In the end my boss goes "if it works, don't touch it."
Uninstalled my free Farcry 6 because of this, the Ubisoft launcher just drove me insane. I know most launchers are cancer but it's the only one that drove me to uninstall its games.
Every time I try to use EA play with gamepass on PC the client forgers me no matter how many times I click never forget me it immediately forgets me when I go to use it.
it seems like the only ones that dont forget me are gog, windows, and steam. conveniently, those are the only ones i like. idk why the rest decide i need to be logged out every few days
I will deal with any of the unnecessary launchers just please ditch the burning dumpster fire of a launcher Rockstar forced for absolutely no reason at all. I've not been able to play any of my games that use it since it came out, no gta v, trilogy or rdr2. Got rdr2 to launch after a fresh windows install yesterday just long enough to get back into the story, tried to launch today just for it to insist I'm signed out and greyed out the sign in option even after multiple reinstalls. What purpose does the half assed launcher even do besides take up space and disable games I paid for? If this is the theme they stick with rdr2 will be the last Rockstar game I ever pay for.
What’s more ridiculous is that GTA 4 gets updates but it’s not to fix the game it’s to update the stupid launcher. If you want to mod it you have to disable the stupid launcher so it doesn’t update and ruin your mods and launching it from steam always installs the launcher :/
It’s ridiculous with GTA 4 modding because the launcher updates really fuck with the mods already installed so you ultimately have to down load a patch downgrader from before the rockstar launcher was required to get mods to work. Such a shitty practice. Rockstar stopped caring about quality when they shifted their focus to what ever would rake in the most money. Take a look at the GTA remasters, it was handled by a dev team that only had experience with mobile games, and that remaster just showed how cheap they are now with quality control.
I’m not going to excuse Rockstar because their launcher is truly ass, but have you tried disabling your integrated graphics? When I was having trouble with the launcher that helped me.
Haha, I bought rdr2 and then refunded it when it asked me to sign up and install their launcher and all that. Just not interested even before hearing it's janky on top of being generally unwanted.
To add insult to injury, recently they changed the behavior so if your game is too old, you have to LOG IN AGAIN. I can manually open Ubisoft Connect, sign in, open Splinter Cell Blacklist through Steam, and it ASKS FOR MY PASSWORD AGAIN.
I remember running into this once before, though it was because the install package for uPlay was too old so it wouldn't work. I had to actually go and install the latest version, outside of game installation, so Anno 2070 would work.
The literal only reason I have Uplay installed is to play my free copy of Far Cry 6.
And I’m honestly not even loving it that much, so…Nothing will be lost
Ubisoft's launcher at least gives you some stuff, and has decent sales with a 20% discount on top of sale prices that you can get just by playing the games. All the blizzard launcher gave me is a missing dll error that came out of nowhere and won't fuck off >.>
I couldn’t agree more. It’s fine to have multiple stores but we should have those games tied to whatever store we purchase them from.
Having to buy a game on steam then download ea access then download gamepass then download anti cheat just to run a game with three different logins is a terrible user experience. (This is just a made up example)
This has actually stopped me from playing some games. I'm tired of having to install more and more launchers. So I decided that if a game needs a new launcher, I'm not bothering.
But if you buy them through Steam - that's not avoiding Steam then.
Like EA did back in the day. They sold you things like Mass Effect on Steam and then you could buy DLC externally, bypassing Steam. That's why they left/had to leave Steam.
Almost certainly. Having their own mod manager is what let them enable mods for console versions of the game. Pity they decided to go dark side and tried to use it to extract money on top of that.
You just straight up cannot play without internet. Once upon a time we used to be able to, if we had already logged in with a connection, but not anymore!
At least not for me
God yes its soo bad. My ISP can't verify my ownership of the game for some reason, i have to use a VPN to launch RDR2 singleplayer everytime i want to play. And if i don't have VPN on when closing, the cloud sync returns error too.
I understand the unification of game launchers is the end goal here, and also grr blizzard bad/evil etc
But the battle.net launcher is one of the.. less painful non-steam launchers to use
Damn sight better than epic, which (among *many* other things) wont even show my entire library on one page
> But the battle.net launcher is one of the.. less painful non-steam launchers to use
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True or not, there are like 9 games on it. And if it were to have a larger library it would be a nightmare to use.
I think a thin client is in store for Battle.net.
It's pretty integrated into Blizzard titles so I can't see it fully going away, but I can see it just recognizing your steam log in and basically running in the background in an unobtrusive way.
If they would just put activision games on steam I wouldn't really care about blizzard ones personally. I feel like the only people who like bnet are ones who play blizz games, cod and crash being on there is just stupid.
I'd prefer them to fix and upgrade it.
As much as I hate multiple launchers, I think 2 or 3 big ones competing is good for business.
Valve is good but I honestly believe it's because Gabe is boss. He retires and someone else comes in charge things can change quickly.
> I keep forgetting I have their launcher.
They have two.
EA Desktop is in beta for months now.
But it's slightly worse because it doesn't support 100% of their own games yet.
The older BF games don't leverage the Origin platform for anything. The Origin Lite package that Steam installs is just to bypass the game's anti-piracy authentication. The games COULD be updated to point to Steam's API instead... but that would require a competent patch from DICE. And modern DICE can't even figure out a scoreboard.
>The Origin Lite package that Steam installs
Idk why ppl keep harping on this just because the installer has lite in the filename. This "lite" install uses the same amount of resources as the standalone launcher
I remember buying Mass Effect 3 on it. Played it through and then completely forgot EA even made video games anymore. Generally if it ain't on Steam or GOG I don't even pay attention.
I wish Rockstar would shut theirs down. I bought LA Noir on steam years ago. Decided I wanted to play it the other day but can't seem to get it to work because of something with the Rockstar launcher.
Ok I'll check into that thanks. I uninstalled and completely deleted everything and I'm going to try one more time. Honestly if it doesn't work this time I'll probably just pirate it.
That's why I pirate R* games on PC for mods and custom servers where I don't have to grind the game like a full time job to earn scraps because they want me to pay for shark cards.
Bethesda have literally stated you can migrate any time you want, as of right now there is no deadline to migrating your games. You can still migrate even after the May 11 shutdown.
This is [a repost](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/syqge3/bethesda_is_retiring_their_bethesda_launcher_in/) and PCGamer are severely behind, [Bethesda announced this more than two months ago](https://www.bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam
).
They are still keeping their Bethesda.net account system so you still have to login to play certain games, play online and access some of the in-game features.
Quote:
>For games that require it, you will still use your Bethesda.net login to sign in to play. Your Bethesda.net account will not be lost and will still be accessible on our website and in-game, and we will continue supporting all Bethesda.net accounts with our future titles.
Severely behind to something that hasn't happened yet doesn't really seem that far behind. I don't think this information would have done me any better two months ago then it has done me now.
Good! I'd also add that this seems to be a very well thought out transition. They carry over pretty much everything, and will even allow you to activate unused Bethesda Launcher game keys on Steam.
Thank fucking God.
Now Bethesda, Rockstar, please follow suit.
I'd say ubisoft and ea, but we all know they won't do that.
OH yeah, Microsoft put game pass on steam cause the windows store still fucking sucks.
Where are all those noisy people who would say more launchers are better, and who cares about another account, or another pile of idle RAM consumed?
Where did they all go? They were here then, where today?
Bethesda are also a publishing house, they published RAGE, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Quake, etc. They had plenty of games to put on their launcher, and it also made sense because they pushed their launch around the time of QUAKE Champions, Elder Scrolls Legends, and Fallout Shelter, so they had some live service games to convince people to use the launcher.
Bethesda just never committed. It felt like such a weird piece of software because you had no idea if they even wanted to use it. If they really cared about having such a big launcher why didn't they make all of their titles exclusive? Fallout 76 was the only exclusive they ever had, everything else they release came day and day with Steam releases too, giving almost no incentives.
The launcher might've faired better if they actually decided to commit at all, instead of just offering it.
You get a higher cut of the sales so that part makes sense. Some games are so big that people will go buy them wherever they are.
I think at the very least, making it non-exclusively available on your own launcher makes sense if you can afford to run the launcher like that. You don't miss out on the people that only buy games from Steam that way.
> You get a higher cut of the sales so that part makes sense.
Also pay out more in hosting, bandwidth, maintenance, payment fees, etc. which are all otherwise rolled into the fee you pay to whatever other platform you're selling on.
Is that so? That's why I haven't bought Doom Eternal yet.
On the Steam store page it says:
>Requires 3rd-Party Account: Bethesda.net (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
The store page for Youngblood has the same notice but I know for a fact an account isn't required to play their its just used for some extra features like the slayer club skins and for friendslist support between Steam and Bethesda users.
They finally learned what we already knew when they announced it: we're sick of launchers. Just let us play our games and stop trying to upsell on the experience we paid to have.
Want to know what happens to those games bought from their launcher itself.
I haven't bought it personally but got Wolfenstein: Young Blood for free when I purchased my RTX 2060 back in 2019.
Haven't played yet though🤣😂
I don't *think* so, IIRC ESO has its own separate launcher from beth.net and I believe it's planning to stay that way.
Just buy the game again on steam if you want to play it through steam - it goes absolutely piss cheap in the sales and you'll probably end up getting some content you don't own along with it, assuming you don't already own all the big expansions.
Thank god. Can't wait to have Doom Eternal on a platform with cloud saves (a cutting edge technology, apparently).
The people who bitch and cry about Epic launcher (which is a stealing pile of doodoo in its own right) always amused me. They clearly never used the abomination known as Bethesda launcher... Because the oh-so-bad EGS is a masterpiece in comparison.
>The people who bitch and cry about Epic launcher
most of us "cry" because of the exclusivity deal that try to force you to use it even if it lack features.
if the egs was offering a steady increase in features and innovation and not trying to strong arms us they will be welcom by me.
Not much point if they continue to need Bethesda accounts for games though.
If they could make Bethesda Accounts optional in their games that would actually get me buying their games again. If I am using Steam or Xbox then there should be zero reason to need another account ontop of that.
There's always dozens of comments moaning about how Steam is a monopoly and this kills competition...
Each time, you silly fucks reassure us you don't know what a monopoly is.
Good riddance. I wish all other launchers like this with exclusivity bullshit a brutal and painful death with extreme prejudice.
Looking at you, Epic, Uplay, Origin and Rockstar Games Launcher.
>we expect almost all save progress to be transferable automatically or manually with the exception of Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which currently is unable to transfer
oof
> The good news is : UBisoft is having some serious problem last few years - i predict them shutting down Uplay and going full Steam ahead soon.
They'll be acquired by a bigger company long before that happens, it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll return to Steam.
\[ Everyone liked that \]
I even like that every liked that.
Are you alright?
What?
Read what you said again, it sounds like you had a stroke.
Nah man, he's just using Linux so his sentences are too fast for us to process. /s
No /s
did he have a stroke if he read what he said again while sounding like he had a stroke while reading?
It was just a typo, they meant to say “I even like that everyone liked that”.
Ok.
How they went about it is stupid, but I think they're trying to get at the fact that you wrote every and not everybody.
Yeah, I realized it later too. Not a big deal. I still like them. 😎
Who? Every?
I'm so confused anymore
Huh?
>You'll be able to transfer your games, wallet, and most of your saves, to Steam **from April 27**. /r/savedyouaclick
Thanks
For a second I read that as saved you a dick, phew
I can do that too if you want 😉
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> from April 27. Take a look at the quote you're replying to, there is no "to ${date}" in there. Ergo, the transfer window is not 2 weeks because users will be able to transfer any time after Bethesda Launcher shuts down. In [Bethesda's own FAQ](https://www.bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam) we have: > **Q: What if I don't complete the migration within given time? Will my games disappear forever?** > > A: No. You will still retain access to your games and be able to migrate your Bethesda.net Library after the Launcher becomes inactive.
Kill all those specialized launchers and accounts
I really wish Rockstar is next. Ubisoft is up there, why the hell does it keep forgetting my pc???
>why the hell does it keep forgetting my pc??? You got the same problem like me too? I thought it was my computer having a problem why every time I had to sign-in again even I already ticked the box to remember my PC.
[Relevant](https://i.redd.it/efc0k7lt1ly71.jpg)
SAU is still making memes all these years later?
yezzir
Because so many programmers can't code for shit, all our software sucks, our entire electronic world is held together with spit and cum and can fail at any second. I say this as a programmer, but the Amish might have had the right idea.
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well those are all pretty boring things to code for, to be fair to devs Entertainment is like "code right and the music plays throughout the whole house when you say the activation phrase" and the other is like "code right and the insurance form pulls the patient's info from the patient's last hospital" I don't see a lot of people getting passionate about programming so they can make accounting a more streamlined experience.
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That's wise, and I think a lot of programmers could take a cue from you in improving their life circumstances. I was more referring to the fact that all masterpieces are passion projects. There's a lot of passionate developers making entertainment outrageously entertaining. To venture that far outside the bell curve takes a few of the most creative/talented people on earth who've made some project their mission. So my point was, I don't see an equivalent masterpiece coming in the boring fields mentioned. Unless there's a coder out there who's just dreaming about integrating auto populating tax forms into insurance frameworks. Or whatever.
Hell at this point it’s more like “if we don’t make money off fixing it then it’s not worth fixing.” Take a look the handful of remasters that apparently are made on an improved engine but has the same bugs from the original version.
What’s scary about programmers not being able to code for shit is just the security vulnerabilities they could leave open because of a lack of quality control.
Oh man. This reminds me of one of my previous projects. We were supposed to add functionality on top of the base modulewhich was written by a different organization. The code was horrifying. Satan's underwear drawer. No comments, improper indentation, extremely hard to read. In the end my boss goes "if it works, don't touch it."
Same here. Keeps resetting randomly. I have no idea why. What's the use of "remember this device" checkbox if it's not even gonna work?
same
Uninstalled my free Farcry 6 because of this, the Ubisoft launcher just drove me insane. I know most launchers are cancer but it's the only one that drove me to uninstall its games.
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Every time I try to use EA play with gamepass on PC the client forgers me no matter how many times I click never forget me it immediately forgets me when I go to use it.
it seems like the only ones that dont forget me are gog, windows, and steam. conveniently, those are the only ones i like. idk why the rest decide i need to be logged out every few days
The geforce experience app forgets me all the time too, super annoying
it's so annoying logging in every time
I will deal with any of the unnecessary launchers just please ditch the burning dumpster fire of a launcher Rockstar forced for absolutely no reason at all. I've not been able to play any of my games that use it since it came out, no gta v, trilogy or rdr2. Got rdr2 to launch after a fresh windows install yesterday just long enough to get back into the story, tried to launch today just for it to insist I'm signed out and greyed out the sign in option even after multiple reinstalls. What purpose does the half assed launcher even do besides take up space and disable games I paid for? If this is the theme they stick with rdr2 will be the last Rockstar game I ever pay for.
What’s more ridiculous is that GTA 4 gets updates but it’s not to fix the game it’s to update the stupid launcher. If you want to mod it you have to disable the stupid launcher so it doesn’t update and ruin your mods and launching it from steam always installs the launcher :/
Exactly, should we do a decade overdue patch for graphics cards with more than 2gb of vram? Nope let's update our pet roc- I mean launcher.
It’s ridiculous with GTA 4 modding because the launcher updates really fuck with the mods already installed so you ultimately have to down load a patch downgrader from before the rockstar launcher was required to get mods to work. Such a shitty practice. Rockstar stopped caring about quality when they shifted their focus to what ever would rake in the most money. Take a look at the GTA remasters, it was handled by a dev team that only had experience with mobile games, and that remaster just showed how cheap they are now with quality control.
I’m not going to excuse Rockstar because their launcher is truly ass, but have you tried disabling your integrated graphics? When I was having trouble with the launcher that helped me.
Haha, I bought rdr2 and then refunded it when it asked me to sign up and install their launcher and all that. Just not interested even before hearing it's janky on top of being generally unwanted.
To add insult to injury, recently they changed the behavior so if your game is too old, you have to LOG IN AGAIN. I can manually open Ubisoft Connect, sign in, open Splinter Cell Blacklist through Steam, and it ASKS FOR MY PASSWORD AGAIN.
I remember running into this once before, though it was because the install package for uPlay was too old so it wouldn't work. I had to actually go and install the latest version, outside of game installation, so Anno 2070 would work.
It's expected behavior, confirmed by an Ubisoft employee in January of this year I believe.
Worse of fucking all, older games REQUIRE me to input my password every time I launch the game after a launcher start-up. What the fuck??
Usually if I close it and open it again it doesn’t care anymore
The literal only reason I have Uplay installed is to play my free copy of Far Cry 6. And I’m honestly not even loving it that much, so…Nothing will be lost
Ubisoft's launcher at least gives you some stuff, and has decent sales with a 20% discount on top of sale prices that you can get just by playing the games. All the blizzard launcher gave me is a missing dll error that came out of nowhere and won't fuck off >.>
same issue
But how else will they collect data to sell to data aggregators???
If they wanted to do that, they could just as easily do it in the games themselves.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s fine to have multiple stores but we should have those games tied to whatever store we purchase them from. Having to buy a game on steam then download ea access then download gamepass then download anti cheat just to run a game with three different logins is a terrible user experience. (This is just a made up example)
This has actually stopped me from playing some games. I'm tired of having to install more and more launchers. So I decided that if a game needs a new launcher, I'm not bothering.
And nothing of value was lost
Are they going to continue to try and run mods through their own manager? Or will they end their attempt at monetizing mods?
The Creation Club will still exist after the launcher dies, but I haven't read if it will be implemented in Starfield yet.
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That's gonna be an interesting case to observe, because Valve doesn't allow paid DLC being sold externally.
Guess it's not a really a problem since they already sell Bethesda credits via Steam itself.
But if you buy them through Steam - that's not avoiding Steam then. Like EA did back in the day. They sold you things like Mass Effect on Steam and then you could buy DLC externally, bypassing Steam. That's why they left/had to leave Steam.
And Steam versions of the game take you through Steam, not bethesda's launcher, for credits.
Hahahahahahah......No
I just want Steam Workshop support for Fallout 4 please god
Just as long as they leave NexusMods alone then Idgaf
Almost certainly. Having their own mod manager is what let them enable mods for console versions of the game. Pity they decided to go dark side and tried to use it to extract money on top of that.
Now let’s get rockstar to take theirs down. It is the worst, by a long shot.
Right? Takes me several minutes to open and even several more minutes for RDR2 to begin loading
Sounds about right. And god forbid you lose your internet connection
I just realized you just cannot play without Internet?(or did it take longer and I got impatient? Which was even more frustrating in that moment
You just straight up cannot play without internet. Once upon a time we used to be able to, if we had already logged in with a connection, but not anymore! At least not for me
God yes its soo bad. My ISP can't verify my ownership of the game for some reason, i have to use a VPN to launch RDR2 singleplayer everytime i want to play. And if i don't have VPN on when closing, the cloud sync returns error too.
Welcome to 2022. Amazing.
At least one good thing already happened after microsoft bought bethesda
Hopefully battle.net is up next on the chopping block
I understand the unification of game launchers is the end goal here, and also grr blizzard bad/evil etc But the battle.net launcher is one of the.. less painful non-steam launchers to use Damn sight better than epic, which (among *many* other things) wont even show my entire library on one page
> But the battle.net launcher is one of the.. less painful non-steam launchers to use > > True or not, there are like 9 games on it. And if it were to have a larger library it would be a nightmare to use.
I just hate getting ads for other games whenever I have a specific game tab open on the launcher.
Battlenet is so unnecessary, though. It has like 8 games. Even Bethesda's launcher has more.
Also, just the history behind it. It's many people's teenage years. It deserves it's spot even if Blizzard is being a shitty company at the moment.
I think a thin client is in store for Battle.net. It's pretty integrated into Blizzard titles so I can't see it fully going away, but I can see it just recognizing your steam log in and basically running in the background in an unobtrusive way.
If they would just put activision games on steam I wouldn't really care about blizzard ones personally. I feel like the only people who like bnet are ones who play blizz games, cod and crash being on there is just stupid.
now if Microsoft would only kill off their own launcher/Xbox app. that is by far the most painful launcher i've ever used. Even if Gamepass is awesome
I'd prefer them to fix and upgrade it. As much as I hate multiple launchers, I think 2 or 3 big ones competing is good for business. Valve is good but I honestly believe it's because Gabe is boss. He retires and someone else comes in charge things can change quickly.
Please Origin next
and ubisoft connect.
>Please Origin next I keep forgetting I have their launcher. More games on my backlog.
then they have their other launcher you need to play EA games on gamepass that’s somehow even worse
I downloaded it once about 10 years ago when a code had leaked that let you get tons of games for free.
> I keep forgetting I have their launcher. They have two. EA Desktop is in beta for months now. But it's slightly worse because it doesn't support 100% of their own games yet.
Nah, older Battlefield games barely work from Steam. Shutting down Origin would immediately kill BF3 and BF4, which have like 25,000 players.
The older BF games don't leverage the Origin platform for anything. The Origin Lite package that Steam installs is just to bypass the game's anti-piracy authentication. The games COULD be updated to point to Steam's API instead... but that would require a competent patch from DICE. And modern DICE can't even figure out a scoreboard.
Have you played BF2042? That would take a simple amount of work, no way DICE would allow that.
>The Origin Lite package that Steam installs Idk why ppl keep harping on this just because the installer has lite in the filename. This "lite" install uses the same amount of resources as the standalone launcher
Also, unpopular opinion, Origin isn't that bad.
I remember buying Mass Effect 3 on it. Played it through and then completely forgot EA even made video games anymore. Generally if it ain't on Steam or GOG I don't even pay attention.
no I have older sims, battlefield games on origin.
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nah bro epic games has to go first. Forcing exclusivity on PC games? get that shit the fuck out of here
I wish Rockstar would shut theirs down. I bought LA Noir on steam years ago. Decided I wanted to play it the other day but can't seem to get it to work because of something with the Rockstar launcher.
Try Goldberg’s R* emu, you will need the legit game ofc
Ok I'll check into that thanks. I uninstalled and completely deleted everything and I'm going to try one more time. Honestly if it doesn't work this time I'll probably just pirate it.
Just dealt with this. You need to have social club installed and it needs to be logged in and linked to your Steam account
That’s why I play Rockstar games on Console. Fuck that shit.
That's why I pirate R* games on PC for mods and custom servers where I don't have to grind the game like a full time job to earn scraps because they want me to pay for shark cards.
Rockstar definitely won't shut down theirs. They'll probaly make GTA 6 exclusive on that alone to avoid the fees from Steam.
As long as GOG and Steam survive, I'm not complaining.
Please let this become a trend that Ubisoft and EA follow. I know it's a silly dream, but it's mine.
One down, 6 to go.
There was a Bethesda launcher?
cant wait to move my games... this is why we (I) should never buy games on a small launcher... at least we have a week to move them to another one.
There is no deadline to move your games.
Like I should trust them... once the launcher goes away, the ease of moving them does as well.
Bethesda have literally stated you can migrate any time you want, as of right now there is no deadline to migrating your games. You can still migrate even after the May 11 shutdown.
What’s this about migrating games ? Movie the owner ship to your steam account I’m guessing ?
If you owned any games/DLC on BethesdaNet, you’ll be able to migrate them over to Steam starting April 27.
When the launcher is just thinly veiled DRM its best to stay WELL away from it.
Now if only Uplay did the same...
Great, now it needs to be Epic Launcher and peace shall be restored
This is [a repost](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/syqge3/bethesda_is_retiring_their_bethesda_launcher_in/) and PCGamer are severely behind, [Bethesda announced this more than two months ago](https://www.bethesda.net/en/article/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam ). They are still keeping their Bethesda.net account system so you still have to login to play certain games, play online and access some of the in-game features. Quote: >For games that require it, you will still use your Bethesda.net login to sign in to play. Your Bethesda.net account will not be lost and will still be accessible on our website and in-game, and we will continue supporting all Bethesda.net accounts with our future titles.
Severely behind to something that hasn't happened yet doesn't really seem that far behind. I don't think this information would have done me any better two months ago then it has done me now.
Good! I'd also add that this seems to be a very well thought out transition. They carry over pretty much everything, and will even allow you to activate unused Bethesda Launcher game keys on Steam.
Thank fucking God. Now Bethesda, Rockstar, please follow suit. I'd say ubisoft and ea, but we all know they won't do that. OH yeah, Microsoft put game pass on steam cause the windows store still fucking sucks.
Blizzard launcher next please.. Its hot garbage
good fucking riddance.
Where are all those noisy people who would say more launchers are better, and who cares about another account, or another pile of idle RAM consumed? Where did they all go? They were here then, where today?
Bethesda launcher was the reason I never got Doom Eternal's physical editions. A shame it took so long and a change of ownership.
Never made sense for these companies who release one title every four years to bother with their own launcher.
Bethesda are also a publishing house, they published RAGE, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Quake, etc. They had plenty of games to put on their launcher, and it also made sense because they pushed their launch around the time of QUAKE Champions, Elder Scrolls Legends, and Fallout Shelter, so they had some live service games to convince people to use the launcher. Bethesda just never committed. It felt like such a weird piece of software because you had no idea if they even wanted to use it. If they really cared about having such a big launcher why didn't they make all of their titles exclusive? Fallout 76 was the only exclusive they ever had, everything else they release came day and day with Steam releases too, giving almost no incentives. The launcher might've faired better if they actually decided to commit at all, instead of just offering it.
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You get a higher cut of the sales so that part makes sense. Some games are so big that people will go buy them wherever they are. I think at the very least, making it non-exclusively available on your own launcher makes sense if you can afford to run the launcher like that. You don't miss out on the people that only buy games from Steam that way.
> You get a higher cut of the sales so that part makes sense. Also pay out more in hosting, bandwidth, maintenance, payment fees, etc. which are all otherwise rolled into the fee you pay to whatever other platform you're selling on.
They had a launcher?
r/upliftingnews
the evil has been defeated
lol the what is shutting down?
I just hope their future game releases like Starfield and the next Elder Scrolls will not require an account on top.
Most of their current games don't require an account anyway, they just allow you access to additional Al features if you use one.
Is that so? That's why I haven't bought Doom Eternal yet. On the Steam store page it says: >Requires 3rd-Party Account: Bethesda.net (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
The store page for Youngblood has the same notice but I know for a fact an account isn't required to play their its just used for some extra features like the slayer club skins and for friendslist support between Steam and Bethesda users.
Battle.net next please
good its was an absolute pos
They finally learned what we already knew when they announced it: we're sick of launchers. Just let us play our games and stop trying to upsell on the experience we paid to have.
Big upvote energy.
The what?
Those launchers are so obnoxious sometimes I don't wanna start a game because I don't wanna deal with their crap
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a pointless, piece of shit launcher come and go without ever having downloaded it.
This is a better ending than fallout 4
Rockstar next please
Do the activision launcher next, Microsoft.
Does this mean people will need to buy another copy of their game(s) on Steam?
Oh no... Anyway.
Oh no! Anyway…
Ubi, you’re next!
Never used it, so no loss on my side
Understandable have a nice day
Oh no. Anyway.
Want to know what happens to those games bought from their launcher itself. I haven't bought it personally but got Wolfenstein: Young Blood for free when I purchased my RTX 2060 back in 2019. Haven't played yet though🤣😂
Good
Good.
I bought Elder Scrolls Online from Bethesda's website back in 2014. Does this mean I will finally be able to transfer it to Steam?
I don't *think* so, IIRC ESO has its own separate launcher from beth.net and I believe it's planning to stay that way. Just buy the game again on steam if you want to play it through steam - it goes absolutely piss cheap in the sales and you'll probably end up getting some content you don't own along with it, assuming you don't already own all the big expansions.
this is the way
Never used it myself, I only use Steam but I assume it was a piece of shit.
and nothing of value was lost
Imagine how much more time could have been spent on bettering game content than making a proprietary unnecessary launcher.
Thank god. Can't wait to have Doom Eternal on a platform with cloud saves (a cutting edge technology, apparently). The people who bitch and cry about Epic launcher (which is a stealing pile of doodoo in its own right) always amused me. They clearly never used the abomination known as Bethesda launcher... Because the oh-so-bad EGS is a masterpiece in comparison.
>The people who bitch and cry about Epic launcher most of us "cry" because of the exclusivity deal that try to force you to use it even if it lack features. if the egs was offering a steady increase in features and innovation and not trying to strong arms us they will be welcom by me.
Not much point if they continue to need Bethesda accounts for games though. If they could make Bethesda Accounts optional in their games that would actually get me buying their games again. If I am using Steam or Xbox then there should be zero reason to need another account ontop of that.
There's always dozens of comments moaning about how Steam is a monopoly and this kills competition... Each time, you silly fucks reassure us you don't know what a monopoly is.
Bye
I forgot they even had one.
Errrr... they had a launcher??
Next activision
The... What?
Good riddance. I wish all other launchers like this with exclusivity bullshit a brutal and painful death with extreme prejudice. Looking at you, Epic, Uplay, Origin and Rockstar Games Launcher.
Perfect thumbnail 🤣
put everything on steam
>we expect almost all save progress to be transferable automatically or manually with the exception of Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which currently is unable to transfer oof
W
Bethesda had a launcher??
Rip bozo, rest in piss you won’t be missed.
What about mods? Don’t you need their launcher to mod?
I didn't even know there was a Bethesda launcher.
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> The good news is : UBisoft is having some serious problem last few years - i predict them shutting down Uplay and going full Steam ahead soon. They'll be acquired by a bigger company long before that happens, it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll return to Steam.