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Fallout 76: Bethesda confirms to PC Gamer that it will not be on Steam at launch
- Thread starter SFLUFAN
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Sigh... I knew it. Going the ESO route. They will release it later I'm sure. Fucking aggravating.
That's lame. I own all of the BGS on Steam, it's nice to have a consolidated library.
ESO on Steam doesn't function correctly though, the stand alone launcher is the way to go th
Some of their other games have launched elsewhere but eventually come to Steam.
Exact same situation for me. I'd like it if there was a way to transfer all my games over, but I somehow doubt that's possible. I'll still use it for FO76, but damn that's annoying.
Man I was looking forward to play this on steam with my friends .,.. really annoyed how every company has its own launcher noiw
Yup.
Makes it easier to ignore it.
Didn't give a shit about it to begin with.
Makes it an easy pass from me then. I was only semi interested anyways. Not going to set up another launcher for one game.
As someone who's new to PC gaming, I have no idea why this would move anyone's needle. Everyone who's playing has the same launcher, so it's not like one of you is on Steam and the others are not, and y'all are likely using discord for chat anyway.
build a decent library of games on a platform you owned for more than 5 or 6 years and then you will understand.
Damn, massive move imo, Fallout and TES games do stupidly well on Steam.
I wonder why it's becoming a lot more common for the big Pubs to just hard cut out Steam? I know EA did it awhile ago, but I don't think many followed, right?
I wonder why it's becoming a lot more common for the big Pubs to just hard cut out Steam? I know EA did it awhile ago, but I don't think many followed, right?
Can't really blame them. Why take a 30% cut on transactions when you can have all the money.
I have a ton of games on Steam. It takes what, 5 seconds to find a game on your desktop or using the search bar?
It seems like a wildly overblown issue from folks who are supposed to be somewhat agnostic about this stuff.
Because I don't want to install 5 different launchers to manage my games.
The plethora of games exclusive to independent game launchers is one of the most annoying parts of pc gaming right now.
I left Origin behind, and am glad GOG doesn't force theirs (though is increasingly hiding it's other options). I stick with the platform I'm hundreds of dollars invested in already.
I left Origin behind, and am glad GOG doesn't force theirs (though is increasingly hiding it's other options). I stick with the platform I'm hundreds of dollars invested in already.
It takes what, a minute to download it? Two minutes?
All for something that might add...half a minute to the gaming experience?
It's an annoyance because it is not done for our benefit. Steam is fully featured. In game chat, invites, screenshots, patching etc. It just has everything and works. Now we need to use some crappy launcher with none of these features so Bethesda doesn't need to pay that Valve 30%. I get it..and I'll still buy it cause I already have like 8 launchers on my PC but it's just very disappointing.
Yep, all the big pubs are turning away.
Now all they need is to court indie games and other bigger budget games to come to their platform as well.
Now all they need is to court indie games and other bigger budget games to come to their platform as well.
It's cool that it doesn't bother you, but if every single launcher gets social features I have to manage 5 friends lists as well which I'd rather not do.
How exactly does this benefit me if I have to download a launcher for every stupid publishers games?
My chat is through Discord and I'm taking screenshots via NVIDIA and the 15 other various pieces of software I installed with my build.
After Fortnite success and Activision using Battle.net I think publishers are getting more comfortable skipping steam and getting their own solutions. Discoverability is a mess on steam so I don't think it matters as much, and the people that won't buy because it's not on there is way worth the 30% (or whatever the cut they had dealt with valve) difference.
I'm surprised they didn't make this move sooner. They have a large enough library of games to pull it off.
This is the main thing. None of these clients offer anything that steam hasn't been offering for years and are still missing most of the things steam does offer. The only reason they exist at all is for publishers to bypass the 30% cut. It does absolutely 0 for the consumer.
This myth again.
What competition does uplay and origin provide steam? Do they have something steam doesn't? Do they have a marketplace for their users to make money? VR support? Big picture mode? Steam did all of those things by themselves.
No one gives a shit about how it doesn't bother you bud, maybe you should actually listen to people's complaints. Some people don't want to bloat their PCs with a shit ton of unnecessary software.
You're not reaching across launchers for this game, though. It's one launcher. You friends playing Fallout 76 are gonna be playing it via Bethesda's launcher. There's no friends list managing.
