I have added a new Incident revolving around automatically linking games purchased via steam to old rockstar accounts and locking access to the game until their provide a 2 factor code of which old linked accounts can sometimes loose access to
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=== Rockstar automatically linking games to lost accounts when purchased from Steam ===
=== Rockstar automatically linking games to lost accounts when purchased from Steam ===
Games purchased through steam are automatically/on launch locked to linked Rockstar games account <ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />, users who in the past had used a Rockstar games account and linked it to steam, but in the leading time between then to the new purchase had lost access to the account then will come to find that the game has now become locked away as the game was automatically locked to an account they no longer can access AFTER they purchased it from steam.
Games purchased through steam are automatically/on launch locked to linked Rockstar Games account.{{CitationNeeded}} Users who in the past had used a Rockstar Games account and linked it to steam, but who had lost access to their Rockstar-linked emails in the time between then and the new purchase had lost access to the account then found that the game had become locked and unusable, as the game was tied to their inaccessible Rockstar Games account.


Some users are reporting success after a multitude of attempts to reach out to support in having their accounts un-linked, but many more are reporting back that they are not having any luck with finding a resolution. <ref name=":0" />
Some users are reporting success after a multitude of attempts to reach out to support in having their accounts un-linked, but others are reporting back that they are not having any luck with finding a resolution.{{CitationNeeded}}


===Rockstar requiring proof of purchase for Android games===
===Rockstar requiring proof of purchase for Android games===