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Steam Bethesda.net is getting shutdown in May, all previously purchased titles will be transferred to Steam.

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This is almost certainly tied to them getting acquired by Microsoft last year. As they've been gradually trying to detach from that service over the past few months.
  • Fallout 76, which was initially exclusive to the launcher. Received a Steam release on April 2020. With the option to transfer your copy over.
  • Some games that had features exclusive to Bethesda.net, such as The Evil Within. were transferred over to the Microsoft Store with said content intact.
  • Deathloop was initially announced as using Bethesda.net, but it was changed to Steam at the last minute. Third-party key sellers had to switch over to that, and the retail version contains a key that gets converted to a Steam one when activated on the launcher.
  • Not officially confirmed just yet, but i'd imagine the upcoming retail release of Ghostwire Tokyo will just cut out the middleman. and provide a straight Steam key in the box.
They're not completely removing the Bethesda login system, however. Games that require a login to access will still need one. Save data will also (with the exception of Wolfenstein Youngblood) be transferred across the two services.


I suspect the same thing is going to happen to Battle.net once the Activision purchase is finished, which will definitely be an improvement in several cases. (Remember when Crash Bandicoot 4 inexplicably included always-online DRM?)
 
Does this mean Bethesda.net prompts will disappear from ports of the old Doom games? Because I always hate seeing that crap in goddamn Doom of all things.
 
I wonder what will happen to the Mods page for Xbox & PS4 games.
I know you can also get them in the games but the UI was much more pleasant on the website.
 
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I'm absolutely devastated that this is happening.

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The migration process has been officially activated, transfer your games over.
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    • They've added parity between Bethesda.net and the Steam marketplace, so titles that weren't previously on there such as the first two Elder Scrolls games, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and the Creation Kits for Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition are now accessible through Steam.

    Youngblood has also quietly received a patch that removes Denuvo as part of the process. So cue the ending music!


    (The Partisan can be used as an alternative, if you prefer.)​
     
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