Steam or Bethesda launcher?

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does it act like Uplay? or different?

[rawWwRrr]

yes

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Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

yes

so its like uplay? if you linked your steam you cant play without steam?

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Originally posted by Angelina:

It's not like Uplay if you buy on Steam. If you get the Steam version, then you sign in once to Bethesda.net & the overlay/launcher is completely hidden/non-existent after that. If u want to switch back to Bethesda launcher without Steam, then u can. Bethesda launcher, if you buy there, is something like Uplay, but way less in your face.

Friends, etc, are handled in-game. You don't need to deal with any stupid Uplay type overlay for anything.

Edit - Get the Steam version. U can switch back & forth, but if you buy through Bethesda, then you'll need to contact Bethesda support to switch over to Steam, which might be too much fuss for some people. I personally can't stand third party services (Origin, Uplay, etc), but this is completely fine. It barely even asks for any personal info to sign up to Bethesda.

Thanks! i should buy it now.

thats right uplay sucks if you buy on steam you cant play on uplay without steam, thats why i bought all ubisoft games at uplay not steam

[Trance4Mason]

Other than convenience, are there any advantages/reasons to switch from Bethesda launcher to Steam?

I've had Bethesda launcher since QC beta and I'm wondering if it is worth the hassle of changing?

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Originally posted by Trance4Mason:

Other than convenience, are there any advantages/reasons to switch from Bethesda launcher to Steam?

I've had Bethesda launcher since QC beta and I'm wondering if it is worth the hassle of changing?

exposing the game on steam?

[Trance4Mason]

Originally posted by SKRAAAA TADU:

exposing the game on steam?

Exposure meaning to help raise the profile/awareness of QC? (Active player numbers etc)

(sorry if this is an obvious question - I'm recovering from flu and my brain isn't great right now!)

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Originally posted by Trance4Mason:

Originally posted by SKRAAAA TADU:

exposing the game on steam?

Exposure meaning to help raise the profile/awareness of QC? (Active player numbers etc)

(sorry if this is an obvious question - I'm recovering from flu and my brain isn't great right now!)

lol. well showing as "User in-game Quake champions"

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Bethesda launcher user here.

It's very crap. launcher when it dls anything, will absolutely kill your PC use/connection while doing. When it dls a game update, it won't just dl update but re-dls everysingle time the entire game. It's not as convenient ui to navigate as steam origin or so.. it's just bad.

edit: Some people have had trouble even getting it to function at all. Because beth launcher has been trying to update itself for them and then it has just crashed and that process has been an infinite loop for them, even when they uninstalled the thing and re-installed it.

[Tapasvi]

It' getting quite anoying when so many developers trying to clone Steam.

Anyway, when i've bought the game on Steam, it doesn't appear in my bethesda laucher ('buy' button instead of 'play'), linked, confirmed. When i've boght another champion key to get unique ranger and nux skins, it apeared in it.

There's actually can be an advantage in having quake in bethesda launcher in some rare cases. If you're using multiple PC, it's often quite inconvinient to play Steam games in online mode, because Seam doesn't allow to launch multiple games on multiple PCs, unless you go offline. In my case, I have a MMO that i want to be launched AFK on secondary PC, and since QC requires Steam to be in online mode, i play through Beth launcher.

But in other cases, if you just choosing, then, obviosuly Steam, as more trustworthy and stable platform, for many publisher, not one. In the next 5 years every publisher will have their launcher and cover half of your desktop lol.
Another example is when the recent hotfix was deployed, it required ~300mb download in Steam, and ~12gb in Beth. This dull copy of Steam can't even update properly, cheez...

[Trance4Mason]

Originally posted by spessu_sb:

When it dls a game update, it won't just dl update but re-dls everysingle time the entire game.

Yeah, I hate this too - especially the so-called "hotfix" patches; 10gb is a very hot hotfix...

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Originally posted by Trance4Mason:

Originally posted by spessu_sb:

When it dls a game update, it won't just dl update but re-dls everysingle time the entire game.

Yeah, I hate this too - especially the so-called "hotfix" patches; 10gb is a very hot hotfix...

Tell me about it.. Steam doesn't ever have this kinda issues and then when that 10gb freezes pretty much your entire PC because beth launcher is just such lousily made thing that it literally eats up your entire connection bandwith and processing power due to crap optimization.

Originally posted by Angelina:

Originally posted by Trance4Mason:

Yeah, I hate this too - especially the so-called "hotfix" patches; 10gb is a very hot hotfix...

I'm pretty sure the devs have already addressed this in the past. Even though it says it's downloading 10gb or whatever, actually it's not (at least according to them).

But for anyone reading; Steam is def the way to go if you plan to buy the game.

Well I can verify it that they most definitely have not. Devs on QC are not at all the same as on Beth Launcher. QC devs are qc:ing and beth devs bethesda lol.