No longer able to log into Steam version with my non-Steam account. Why do this SE?

[Grodian]

Yup, I had the steam version of ARR to log into my non-steam account for account wide playtime tracking and screenshot handling. This change came out of nowhere, no warning that I saw anywhere.

[Lozza]

Yup, I had the steam version of ARR to log into my non-steam account for account wide playtime tracking and screenshot handling. This change came out of nowhere, no warning that I saw anywhere.

The first notification went up in the launcher in March this year. Although as others have pointed out it said nothing about affecting non Steam accounts using a Steam version of the game. I've commented several times in the massive thread on the issue since that I didn't like that SE was keeping exceptionally quiet about the whole thing and that, at the very least, such a drastic change deserved and email to Steam users as a bare minimum.