social club account my steam is linked to?

[Chief Smackahoe]

cant play the game cause it says my steam account is linked to another social club. How can I figure this out? I'm so disappointed its this difficult to play a game I own.

[psykoteky]

Search email accounts for notification emails from R* to denote your email account used.
Search for email change notifications and - to click link to recover account.

If you see nothing from R* anywhere, you can also-
Spam forgot password on social club - put in email - check emails for notifications again.
Can also just try 'logging in' to the social club website with what you believe are the 'correct' credentials. The owned games should be listed - and your steam account should be in the linked account tab - else, there's other problems.

Otherwise - Contact R*, jump through hoops, prove ownership, recover account.
Lots of info /more details here regarding this/variations of getting this fixed, etc -
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/3936769163101735334/#c3936769163101801343

If you jump to the unlinking route - your post history shows you as owning gta5 - and you could lose that via an unlink. Recovery of the old social club account will prevent that.

/goodluck - whole process can be silly easy, or really annoying/hard/slow.

[Chief Smackahoe]

Doesn’t look like I’m playing rdr2. This isn’t worth the hassle

[E-Commerce Meatualization Inc]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

Doesn’t look like I’m playing rdr2. This isn’t worth the hassle

I hate that "hassle" is the new normal for everything. I'm at a point where i'm done giving companies money if I have to create an account to play a game or if their single player stuff is online only.

No reason anyone should have dozens of passwords just to play dozens of different games.

[Chief Smackahoe]

I spent 2 hours trying to figure it out. I was able to log into my social account but for some reason its not linked with my steam account. So incredibly frustrating

[psykoteky]

You mean you see steam not being linked on the social club website in linked acc tab? Usually happens when the social club acc you are on is not the linked social club acc.

Steam acc + originalsocialclubacc === sign in with old email/pass.
If the originalsocialclubacc EMAIL is changed for some reason-
Steam still attempts to sign into that originalsocialclubacc.
And if you use the old credentials - they are now wrong.

Since the old email is no longer in use on the original social club acc - a NEW social club acc is/can be made. Something that's been plaguing many since last June. This new acc makes it look like the credentials are working unless you dig into the acc details.

If you ARE seeing your steam acc linked on the social club website / linked acc tab...
There have been some oddities with EGS/Steam launcher and multi game copies causing issues - usually resolved by renaming my docs / rockstar games to -old and signing back into each properly. R* launcher updates resolve some issues, and bring others. Coin flip every update.

The whole thing is frustrating. Especially when some users resolve it in couple hours, and others take 2-3-5+ tickets over weeks. Many variables. =\

[dylan000444]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

I spent 2 hours trying to figure it out. I was able to log into my social account but for some reason its not linked with my steam account. So incredibly frustrating

That’s the same problem I’m having how did you log in after

[Chief Smackahoe]

I didn’t. I just uninstalled rdr2 and went out with my girl instead. Way better time

[Redarmy]

Originally posted by Chief Smackahoe:

I didn’t. I just uninstalled rdr2 and went out with my girl instead. Way better time

This statement and the user name indicates your probably had an awesome time..her maybe not so much.