How do we change names with no Bethesda.net account?

[Richard I]

I might have one, not sure.

Started playing last month, don’t remember it ever having me make an account.

I want to link it to steam to change my name, but I don’t even think I have an account. Well clearly I have one because I play, but I don’t have an email for it, or a password.

[BizarreMan]

Everyone has a bethesda.net account linked to their Steam account. Even if you don’t think you have one you do.

If you ever used the creation club for FO76 or Skyrim you have a bethesda.net account.

You can try going to bethesda.net and logging in with your possible email addresses. You may have to use the “forgot my password” function.

Once you get in, you can look under linked accounts and see your steam account already linked. If it is not linked, you are in the “wrong” bethesda.net account and need to try again.

If that does not work. Come back and there are other ways to find the email address that is on file with Steam and linked to Bethesda.net.

[Richard I]

Correction: it is asking for my username on Bethesda.net

I have an email from 2018 for Bethesda.net, but that was for my Xbox account. I have a separate fallout 76 account on steam and Xbox I think (different usernames and unrelated)

I used my typical password with my fallout 76 name and it didn’t work. Used “forgot my password” as well as went into the in-game settings and asked to resend the verification email (where it has the BUID) checked all of my emails and got nothing.

Not really sure what to do at this point. It has to be common

I have never used the creator fund on FO4, but I did download mods. Would I have needed a Bethesda.net account for that?

[steventirey]

Originally posted by P1ECEM4K3R:

I have never used the creator fund on FO4, but I did download mods. Would I have needed a Bethesda.net account for that?

If you used the in-game mod section or the Creation Club, yes you needed a Bethesda account for that. It would have automatically made one for you. As far as I remember.

At the very least, you will always have a Bethesda account if you play Fallout 76 due to the presence of the store and battlepass and the fact its an online multiplayer game.

[BizarreMan]

Okay.

It goes like this. You, and every one of us has a bethesda account. Some people just don't know the correct email address linking Steam and Bethesda. And it can be a royal pain to figure it out.

So here's the scoop.

On the Steam Store find Doom 64. It's a Bethesda game that uses the same linked accounts that 76 uses. Buy Doom 64. It's cheap, and you won't need it for long anyway.

Buy it, install it. Run it. Inside the game at the main menu, there is a "bethesda.net" option on the menu. When you select that option, it will tell you the name of the email account that connects everything together. If you still have access to that account. It's easy. You just go to Bethesda.net and log in with that account. It may ask you to "create an account". Even though the account already exists.

Once you have access to that account. You can verify the linked accounts and see your correct Steam account. You can then change the display name in the Bethesda account and have a better name.

You can change your display name every 90 days.

[Richard I]

I appreciate that response. Just got Doom 64 for less than $2.
I found the email I used, went to bethesda.net to help find my account username, but I haven't received any emails.

I guess I just need to wait at this point and try periodically and hope I get an email.

[BizarreMan]

Originally posted by P1ECEM4K3R:

I appreciate that response. Just got Doom 64 for less than $2.
I found the email I used, went to bethesda.net to help find my account username, but I haven't received any emails.

I guess I just need to wait at this point and try periodically and hope I get an email.

The only times I have ever known anyone to have issues with receiving an email is when they no longer had access to that account, or they had totally screwed up the email address. One guy had put #gmail.com instead of @gmail.com. That took conversations with Bethesda support to get resolved.

[Richard I]

I've ensured that I've put @gmail and the spelling is correct. My browser even has it autofilled now with the correct spelling.

I have access to the email account, not sure about the Bethesda account. I don't even remember making it, so maybe it goes inactive after a certain amount of years?

I'll also say that I don't have any past emails from bethesda.net on this email account. No verify from many years ago, none of that. I'm not sure. But when I go to Doom 64 this is the email it says I am logged in through bethesda.net with.