Activation Error, Your social club account is not entitled to RDR2

[davidgunnarrichard]

I can't start the game. I get this error every time, just after the shotgun blast and legalese screens on startup. It's like the game is trying to online-check and doesn't think I'm connected to internet. I am. Also disabled antivirus and firewall, deleted and reinstalled, reset Winsock, etc, etc. Was on with a RS tech for an hour and they had no clue.....anyone?

[cube]

Log out of the Rockstar launcher and log back in again. It's been an issue with Social Club for year. They refuse to fix it.

[davidgunnarrichard]

Tried that, tried deleting local file, Launcher folder, Social Club folder. Nothing works

[Acheg1l]

I have exactly the same issue and the same history... support couldn't help.

[davidgunnarrichard]

Bump

[malimoe]

i have the same problem. how did you even manage to get an answer from the rs support? im waiting now for more than a week, but still no answer on my ticket.

[davidgunnarrichard]

Originally posted by Malimos:

i have the same problem. how did you even manage to get an answer from the rs support? im waiting now for more than a week, but still no answer on my ticket.

Malimos, I used the chat option and got a tech in about 20min.

[Jester]

I encounter this nearly every time I load up the game. In my experience I just have to keep trying and eventually it'll take. If after a couple tries it's still not loading, then I'll open the Rockstar launcher and launch the game from there with the "Play on Steam" button. That usually works but not always.

[malimoe]

Originally posted by davidgunnarrichard:

Originally posted by Malimos:

i have the same problem. how did you even manage to get an answer from the rs support? im waiting now for more than a week, but still no answer on my ticket.

Malimos, I used the chat option and got a tech in about 20min.

Thx for mentioning it davidgunnarrichard. After i switched language to english i could chat with rockstar. Twice. But unfortunately id didn't help anything.

[malimoe]

BUT I (hopefully) found a solution to play the story for now.
Switch Steam to Offline Mode and start the game through Steam, that worked for me so far. Hope this helps someone else.

[Xardas]

I try to fix it by deleting the Red Dead Redemption 2 directory to C:\Users\[your user]\Documents\Rockstar Games

After deleting launch the game and use cloud save

[Zillacus]

Try disabling your antivirus before launching game. I had a RDR2 update being blocked via antivirus through the Rockstar launcher. Once updated turn antivirus back on. Haven't had issue since.

[Seraph]

Same issue, tried all the things

[SpinyNorman]

Same issue and found R* help desk no help. 🤬 Had to get a refund...

[davidgunnarrichard]

I tried to get a refund but apparently all of the hundreds of times I've tried to start the game surpassed the 2 hour limit on refunds. SMH

[Khaki]

Anybody have luck fixing this? Just bought the game and been having this issue from the start