rockstar launcher shows RDR2 as not bought

[Abyss]

how do i activate the steam game that i paid for and downloaded? rockstar launcher says i gotta buy it but i kinda did that already...

[Uhzu]

you put it on the wrong account. You have to talk to Rockstar support. it'll take days to figure out so good luck!

[Harper]

Same thing here. How the ♥♥♥♥ do you fix this?

[Uhzu]

Originally posted by Harper:

Same thing here. How the ♥♥♥♥ do you fix this?

Have to talk to R* support. I did this with GTAV and they fixed it.

[E3st]

Start Steam as Admin and then RSR2. That workes for me and some other.

The game ist not show as buyed, but the game starts.

[Abyss]

Originally posted by Uhzu:

you put it on the wrong account. You have to talk to Rockstar support. it'll take days to figure out so good luck!

i didnt, i have the one account, it shows my gta v so im sure its the one and only account i have and use.

Originally posted by Uhzu:

Originally posted by Harper:

Same thing here. How the ♥♥♥♥ do you fix this?

Have to talk to R* support. I did this with GTAV and they fixed it.

this sucks... what do they need to help me?

Originally posted by E3st:

Start Steam as Admin and then RSR2. That workes for me and some other.

The game ist not show as buyed, but the game starts.

i needed to do this to have the damn thing even launch haha!

[Narsakiel]

I have the same problem, does anyone have a fix yet?

[Michael]

Originally posted by Narsakiel:

I have the same problem, does anyone have a fix yet?

Yeah talk to rockstar support.

[Abyss]

Originally posted by Michael:

Originally posted by Narsakiel:

I have the same problem, does anyone have a fix yet?

Yeah talk to rockstar support.

i did, they could not help after like 2 hours of wasted attempts, how did you contact them just to be sure?

[Claus]

Guys, they probably told you to do a new steam account, but we can safely establish that nobody wants to do that. Refund the game immediately. Then reply to the email correspondence you have with asking them to unlink your old social club from steam, this will cause all online games to stop working such as GTA V , the entire game not just online.

After you have done that buy the game again and manually link it to steam on your new social club account, you lost all your online games on the old because rockstar does not allow you to use more social club accounts than one, they literally told me to make a new steam account like their accounts is more important than a 15 year old steam account lol.

I spent hours in their live chat and no result, Rockstar still lives in the stoneage where all games are bound to the link instead of the account, that way they can drag more money out of you by forcing you to buy new games.

Here is their answer if you refuse to believe it.


I've reviewed your account thoroughly and see that you have a GTAV game on your Steam account. Please be informed, the entitlements to play GTAV are tied to both the Social Club and Steam account. These accounts must remain linked or you will not be able to play GTAV or GTA Online with either of these accounts.

We suggest you to purchase the new game on your New Steam account since you've already requested for a refund on the current Steam account. Because unlinking the current Steam account will make you lose the GTAV game on your account.

If you still want to unlink the current Steam account from your old Social Club account, please get back to us with the confirmation that you understand that unlinking the accounts will result in being unable to play GTA Online as well as GTAV with either of these accounts.

[Michael]

Originally posted by Azure:

Originally posted by Michael:

Yeah talk to rockstar support.

i did, they could not help after like 2 hours of wasted attempts, how did you contact them just to be sure?

I don't own the game on steam YET, but there are a few forum through the forums about this problem.

You go here https://support.rockstargames.com

and contact them by logining into your social club account.

[Claus]

After i unlinked my social club from steam and i was about to buy it again, but i've have had so much hassle and for what, buying the game 3 times and being a loyal customer in return they spit in my face with this treatment.

I decided to keep the game on rockstar social club only and never buy their games again, this is 2019, problems like this should not exist still.

[Michael]

Originally posted by Claus:

If unlinked my social club from steam and i was about to buy it again but i have had so much hassle and for what buying the game 3 times and being a loyal customer in return they spit in my face with this treatment.

I wouldn't unlink the accounts. I would suggest you refrain from opening your wallet towards them in the future.

[Claus]

Originally posted by Michael:

Originally posted by Claus:

If unlinked my social club from steam and i was about to buy it again but i have had so much hassle and for what buying the game 3 times and being a loyal customer in return they spit in my face with this treatment.

I wouldn't unlink the accounts. I would suggest you refrain from opening your wallet towards them in the future.

I already did that and lost GTA, but can you see my point they think that social club is more important than steam, i would never start a new steam account, social club needs to start offering the option to link several accounts or make games attach to the account itself, ubisoft for example they allow you to link one uplay account to each game as you desire, online only is absolutely no excuse for this crappy system, they lost 60$ because i wanted to support them and in return their social club only allows me one account.

Why would i want 2 rdr copies on the same account, it's just stupid.


I lose nothing other than my valuable time, i just go back to my old rdr 2 account and play there, but they lost 60$ if not more to their account linking system, i did my part to make it work.

[Michael]

Originally posted by Claus:

Originally posted by Michael:

I wouldn't unlink the accounts. I would suggest you refrain from opening your wallet towards them in the future.

I already did that and lost GTA, but can you see my point they think that social club is more important than steam, i would never start a new steam account, social club needs to start offering the option to link several accounts or make games attach to the account itself, ubisoft for example they allow you to link one uplay account to each game as you desire, online only is absolutely no excuse for this crappy system, they lost 60$ because i wanted to support them and in return their social club only allows me one account.

Why would i want 2 rdr copies on the same account, it's just stupid.


I lose nothing other than my valuable time, i just go back to my old rdr 2 account and play there, but they lost 60$ if not more to their account linking system, i did my part to make it work.

Did you play GTA online? I played GTA V only in online and the would have been a lot lost for me.

[Die Zahl]

Originally posted by Azure:

how do i activate the steam game that i paid for and downloaded? rockstar launcher says i gotta buy it but i kinda did that already...

i have the same problem. it says, have to buy it again on Rockstar Social Club to play it :(