I couldn’t play red dead 2 because of some old email I didn’t recognize was associated with my rockstar social account that was linked to my steam account where I bought the game. I didn’t even give a shit about cloud or online play. I just wanted to do the game all alone but it wouldn’t let me without that email. It was the dumbest shit ever and i eventually just got a refund. They definitely use people over seas for support and it takes them forever to reply.

Yep. I have the exact same problem with EA-Connect. My account is just gone because EA doesn't offer any support.

Yep, I have the same story verbatim dude. Fuck Rockstar, permanently. Haven’t played one of their games in like 5 years, and I never will again.

Did you try typing goru@n.ga as your email address?

IRL you don't need an email account to do road violence. Simulator is worse than life. Matrix, confirmed.

thanks for the tip, but I don't buy any games I don't have to.

Not a fan of Rockstar in particular.

GTA (as in, the first one) was a wonderful gaming experience. GTA 2 changed the game in some interesting ways, yet it remains the black sheep of the series for some reason. 3, 4, and 5 were iconic. Then 4 came out again (oops, the OG 4 is actually just Vice City, it's not the fourth game but it's also not DLC, not sure how that works. Interestingly while GTA 4/VC and GTA 4 were in different cities, GTA 5/SA and GTA 5 both took place in San Andreas (and surrounding areas). Anyway, I couldn't get into the new GTA 4. GTA 5 was better, but I never finished it. Then they paused GTA to do a sequel to their Red Dead games, neither of which really went anywhere (popularity wise) but whatever, RDR2 (sequel to Red Dead Redemption, itself a sequel to Red Dead Revolver) ended up being a massive hit. Wasn't for me, but I enjoyed what I played (the intro and maybe a couple hours after).

I don't think GTA VI will be worth $100. I'm not interested in paying more than like $40 for it, tops. But, that's just me. I know even at $100 it will break records and then everyone will think they can sell their games for $100 each. I don't like it, but it's going to happen.

Ok, I won't. I don't like launchers anyway.

I delt with the exact same issue recently. I was locked out of my 13 year old Rockstar account and despite sending everything asked for they wouldn't help me. It took 9 separate support requests over the course of 6 months before I was able to get my account back. Their support is the most infuriating AI bullshit I have ever dealt with.

I didn't know if it will help you but it seems the key phrase that actually got them to look at my account was that I was "worried about my account being compromised". It was a complete lie but I had run out of options. They ask every time "when was your account linked to steam/epic" and I just said "I've never linked epic, oh no someone has my account!!". That was the only thing that worked. Good luck 🤞