RIP Bethesda Launcher: Here’s how its nearly full transfer to Steam will work

Warning comes ahead of game-transfer process, which kicks off in April. Affected users will get to carry every BL purchase and license over to Steam storefront starting in ‘early April’ Bethesda insists that all games’ paid DLC and microtransaction currencies will transfer to the Steam versions seamlessly, so long as players log into a Bethesda.net account while in-game. Bethesda Launcher in particular suffered because it asked PC gamers to move away from the mod-friendly ecosystem of Steam, which breathed significant life into Bethesda’s ambitious-but-buggy duo of Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The move follows Microsoft’s shift away from an exclusive launcher and toward the closed, controlled, micro-transaction-filled garden of Creation Club. . . .