u/Cool_Newspaper_6090

Hi there!

I just bought this game for my steam deck today and it physically won’t let me start the game without rockstar launcher, however when I try to make an account it just keeps saying “sorry we are unable to handle your request at this time”

I’ve been at this for an hour now and I can’t physically get to the game, I’ve tried making an account on my phone instead, and on my partners PC too but I keep getting the same error message.

Are the servers down or something? I’m genuinely at a loss, I don’t have any connectivity issues whatsoever so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong

Is this a common issue? All I wanna do is play a game I use to play on my ps4 and enjoy it on my steam deck since it’s on sale but I can’t even play it 😭

EDIT to add : I’ve also tried the tip of checking the time zone is correct in both game mode and desktop mode and then restarting; this still didn’t fix the issue unfortunately.

Edit #2 : the specific error message I’m getting apparently relates to connectivity issues, I saw the following on rockstar website “You can resolve this issue by checking that your network or internet service provider is not using a proxy server or virtual private network (VPN) to connect to Rockstar Games services.”
But this is of no help either because I don’t have a VPN on my network that I’m aware of, I’m not even sure how I would check that?

Edit #3 : game is unplayable due to rockstar launcher errors. Been in contact with my internet service provider who confirmed no issues and no proxy IP, so will just refund this via steam. Absolutely ridiculous. Why do PC games need so many launchers ? What is the point? I’m grateful I can still play this game on my ps5 but I just thought it would be nice to play this handled in bed, but for some reason rockstar wants to make things difficult for everyone. I genuinely don’t understand the point of this and their customer service refusing to help is ridiculous

Hi there, currently working on 100 percenting this game which I love, it is a bit repetitive at times thought but it’s still a nice cozy game

There’s an achievement for using a premium ingredient, I’ve purchased and used these many times but the achievement won’t pop.

If anybody else has completed this game could you tell me what you did exactly to get this achievement because for some reason for me it is either bugged or I’m doing something wrong, I can’t find anything about it online since the game is so new 😭