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Home»News»Gaming News»Bethesda isn’t sure if future PC titles will be released on Steam

Bethesda isn’t sure if future PC titles will be released on Steam

By Keith MitchellAugust 12, 2018
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At least not yet

A few days ago, Bethesda released shocking news that their upcoming title, Fallout 76, would not be released onto Steam. Instead, it would be released exclusively on Bethesda’s own game launcher. This led many, including myself, to wonder if this was to be the fate of the rest of Bethesda’s upcoming PC titles. As such we reached out to get more information but never received a reply.

IGN also reached out to the company with the same question and did get a reply. It would seem that Bethesda isn’t sure what the future holds. Here’s what Bethesda’s SVP of Bethesda’s global marketing and communications, Peter Hines, had to say on the matter.

“We did not announce ‘all future Bethesda games will not be on Steam,’”  “That is not what we said. We said ‘this game will be available exclusively on Bethesda.net.’”

When asked about DOOM Eternal;

“We haven’t decided on anything else, this is specific to Fallout 76 given the kind of game it is — it’s an online, ongoing game.” “Doom Eternal may or may not, but it hasn’t been decided on anything else yet.”

So this begs to ask the question, what exactly has or is being planned for the future? On one hand, Bethesda could be completely honest and isn’t sure about their future actions. I can understand why moving Fallout 76 to their own launcher makes sense. For Bethesda, this ensures that they’ll get maximum profit and won’t have to lose 30% if they released the game on Steam. This could also mean that Fallout 76 could be a timed-exclusive for Bethesda’s own service, similar to how Microsoft releases certain games onto their Microsoft Store and then later onto Steam.
 
Again, it makes a lot of sense.  
 
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However, on the other hand, it could be that the company has already made up its mind.  Fallout 76 could be the start of Bethesda parting ways with Steam completely. It’s not completely unfounded. Look at EA for example. Since 2011, they stopped releasing their major titles onto Steam. Outside of several Sims 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning expansions, the last EA game released onto Steam was Shift 2 Unleashed in 2011. Since then, every EA published title has been released onto Origins exclusively. It would seem that EA has enjoyed a pretty successful run with what started out as an experiment.   
What if this is exactly what Bethesda is looking at and figures if one company can do it, why can’t they. This also makes sense. As for why Bethesda isn’t saying if they are or aren’t. Well, it could be that they just don’t want the backlash of gamers loyal to Steam and want to avoid the negative press. Remember when they said they weren’t sending out review copies to press anymore? It wasn’t pretty.  
As to which one of these is right on the money, we’ll just have to wait and see. In the meanwhile, if you haven’t checked out Bethesda’s launcher, you should give it a try. It’s not that bad.  
Credit: IGN.com

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Keith has been a fan of geek culture and video games ever since his father gifted him his first gaming console many decades ago and has used this love of for the genres to start The Outerhaven. Keith keeps follows on the ongoings of videogames, anime, comics and technology, and while he has been writing about these topics for the past 14 years, he has been a gamer and tech guy for 30 years.

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