Bethesda to port The Elder Scrolls Online progress for Stadia to PC

Bethesda has announced that Stadia gamers can now port their progress in The Elder Scrolls Online to PC or Mac. Gamers need to log into the game’s web portal, where they can also download a PC or Mac version of the game for free.

According to Bethesda Stadia gamers will not lose any of their progress in The Elder Scrolls Online if they transfer their data. The developer states that achievements, inventory, friend lists, messages, rankings and all other game data are transferred when a transfer is chosen. The company is reportedly able to do this because Stadia gamers have always played on the same servers as this game’s PC and Mac gamers. This allows the transition to be seamless. Bethesda does not charge extra for this service, nor for the PC or Mac version of the game, which can be downloaded for free through the portal.

In October, game developer CD Projekt Red also published a step-by-step plan to export save data from Cyberpunk 2077 for Google Stadia to PC. Through cloud sync, PC gamers can then transfer that save data to the console versions of the game. Ubisoft also announced in October that Ubisoft games purchased through Google Stadia will be converted to a PC version. It is not clear whether the French developer will do this for a fee and will also convert savedata and dlc. The company will provide more details later.

The instructions from Bethesda, CD Projekt Red and Ubisoft come after Google announced at the end of September that it would stop Google Stadia, its game streaming service. Stadia would not have gotten the intended number of players that Google had hoped for. The service will stop on January 18, 2023. Google will refund users for software purchases such as games. The company also offers refunds for Stadia hardware, if purchased through the Google Store.

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