Bethesda Hasn't Decided Whether or Not Doom Eternal will Avoid Steam

Speaking with IGN at QuakeCon 2018, Bethesda’s Pete Hines said that Fallout 76 not coming to Steam at launch doesn’t mean the publisher will never release a game there again.

“We did not announce ‘all future Bethesda games will not be on Steam,’” Hines explained. “That is not what we said. We said ‘this game will be available exclusively on Bethesda.net.’”
When asked whether Doom Eternal would be skipping Steam as well, Hines said they don’t know yet. “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,” he continued. “[Doom Eternal] may or may not, but it hasn’t been decided on anything else yet.”

[Activemessiah]

Bethesda Hasn't Decided Whether or Not Doom Eternal Will be on Steam... If it doesn't, it will be interesting to see how many people cave in despite complaining about... I will play it... On my "terms"... Not Bethesda's.

[Skull521]

Once all the major companies quit using Steam it's gonna be funny to see Steam with an endless sea of garbage games and no A-AAA games available. Maybe Half Life 3 will finally get made, exclusive to Steam, in a desperate attempt to save it.

[Eonjay]

And you want to see Steam die why?

[BlaqMagiq1]

@Eonjay

Cuz he's an idiot.

[nowitzki2004]

What do you dislike about Steams services?

[Hungryalpaca]

uh Steam is the largest platform in the world. Are you dense?

[TheColbertinator]

Bethesda hasn't decided to pull their heads out of their asses yet either. They make a bit of profit and suddenly they act like EA.

[Activemessiah]

They've always act shoddy... the first time i noticed was regarding Prey 2 back in 2011 with the leaked emails and how they treated Human Head studios.

[annoyedgamer]

Release it DRM free. Who am I kidding.

[NovusTerminus]

Translation: We need to see the sales of Fallout 76 to gauge how we do without Steam.

[Jinger]

I don't care. I'll DL their launcher. Doesn't really bother me much.

[ravinash]

I remember when I started playing Quake champions via Bethesda's launcher.
The updates wouldn't work half the time and would take ages as it would have to download the whole game again a few times. I understand that it was in early access at that time, but I haven't had nearly as many problems since i started running it from Steam.

[SegaGamer]

More bloatware and yet another place we would need to sign up to and give our credit card details to........you may not have an issue with that, but many people would. Imagine if all game companies did this, would you really be ok with having 30 different launchers on your pc, with 30 different accounts, 30 different passwords and 30 different places holding your credit card details? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.