{"id":123758,"date":"2022-02-23T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123758"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:06:27","slug":"bethesda-net-launcher-to-shut-down-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/123758-bethesda-net-launcher-to-shut-down-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda.net launcher to shut down in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda is closing down its PC games launcher in May, but users will be able to start transferring their games to Steam in April.<\/p>\n<p>This will give users a month-long window to transfer all their Bethesda games to their Steam libraries, as well as transfer any money in their Bethesda wallet to their Steam wallet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethesda.net\/en\/article\/2RXxG1y000NWupPalzLblG\/sunsetting-the-bethesda-net-launcher-and-migrating-to-steam\">Bethesda confirmed<\/a> in a press release that users would not lose anything due to its game launcher&#8217;s closure and that game transfers to any other platform besides Steam will not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>An automatic transferring process will take care of most users&#8217; games and save data, but manual transfers might be necessary in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bethesda, Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the only game for which transfers will not be possible, and for those still playing Fallout 76, Bethesda has put forward a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/fallout.bethesda.net\/en\/article\/FfWIVEmUL8vXXpAtkYnCT\/farewell-bethesda-net-launcher-fallout-76-faq\">FAQ page<\/a> for the transferring process.<\/p>\n<p>Users\u00a0will still need to use their Bethesda.net login details within Bethesda titles to access content like skins and mods.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123749-marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-failed-to-meet-square-enixs-expectations\">Marvel\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy failed to meet Square Enix\u2019s expectations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about Bethesda&#8217;s launcher shutting down in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":123761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25750,25751,85,19395],"class_list":["post-123758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-bethesda-net","tag-games-library","tag-steam","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}