Most recently, a head from Bethesda announced that their up-and-coming game, Fallout 76 isn’t going to come on Steam. Announced via Twitter, the statement reveals that the game is going to be Bnet exclusive which is the official platform for Bethesda games.

Pete Hines is the marketing head for Bethesda so the source for this is as authentic as it can be.

Another statement in this regards from an official spokesperson is as follows:

“The PC version of Fallout 76, for both the B.E.T.A. and the launch, will be available only via Bethesda.net, not on Steam”

And this would be the first time Bethesda has done something of this sort as previously all titles were launched on the Steam store. Doing so, Bethesda is most likely trying to avoid giving a chunk of their sales to Valve for being enlisted.

The beta for Fallout 76 is set to start in October with different dates for all the platforms the game is releasing on. But unlike Beta for other titles, Bethesda has announced that the Beta for Fallout 76 would be a full version of the game. This means that all the progress that you make in the beta will continue once the full game is released.

Stay tuned for more to come regarding the game’s release or any new announcement from Bethesda for Fallout 76.