Bethesda has been using its own Bethesda.net Launcher for its own games for some time, but it will soon be obsolete.
Many developers rely on their own launchers, which run and start their own games. Bethesda is also one of them and has been using the Bethesda.net Launcher for this since 2016 – but that will now change again.
Today, Tuesday, Bethesda announced that the launcher will die later this year and will be abolished. The corresponding processes are to be initiated at the beginning of April. From then on, the players will have enough time to migrate their games and co. to the newly used platform: Steam. Of course, saves should also be able to be taken over.
According to the official information, the Steam migration will include the game library and the wallet; nothing should actually be lost by removing the launcher. Bethesda.net accounts will remain active for the time being because some games require log-in processes for saves or in-game items.
From May, the launcher should no longer be used to start Bethesda games; this will only work via Steam. Separate migration to Steam will still be possible afterwards. So if, for example, you only get around to playing a specific Bethesda title again in June, you can still move it to Steam and then start it via the popular Valve platform.
There is currently only one problem with the transfer of all other content and savegames to Steam: savegames from Wolfenstein: Youngblood cannot currently be transferred.