According to Bethesda, players can start migrating their games over to Steam in early April. Which means you have at least a month to plan out which games you want to transfer. If not all of them. Since you’ll have until May to play using the Bethesda launcher, you won’t have to migrate them to Steam right away. But you won’t want to wait until the last minute. So planning things out is probably a good thing to do.
Bethesda may be sunsetting its launcher, but your games and wallet are safe
For players that use the Bethesda launcher, the sunsetting process won’t take anything away. Your games and wallet will be transferrable as long as you go through the migration. There is one caveat though. Bethesda says that some game saves will need to be transferred manually. While most of the saves will migrate automatically when games are moved over. This should make the process relatively painless and overall, it shouldn’t take long to do. Instructions on how to migrate everything over to Steam will be made available at a later date. Closer to the opening of the migration process. Players who want to transfer games will want to follow those steps to ensure a smooth transition.
You will still need a Bethesda.net account for some games
Although the launcher is leaving, some games (many, according to Bethesda), will still require players to use their Bethesda logins. The publisher doesn’t mention which ones, but you may as well assume all of your favorites so you’re not caught unaware. In addition, friends lists from the Bethesda launcher will also be migrated over to Steam. But only for games that have a Bethesda.net friends list like DOOM Eternal, Fallout 76, The Elder Scrolls: Legends and more.
