Unable to Log in Suddenly (The Lobby Server has encountered a critical error)

[YukikoKurosawa]

Just an hour ago I was booted out of the game, I tried to log back in only to be met with the afformentioned message. I've made numerous attempts since, even restarting my computer, to no avail. I can't find anyone else complaining about this so either it's on my end or I don't know what.

The game has been working with zero issues for the past several months since I don't know what's wrong.

Edit: I'm on Primal btw.

[Oglaf]

Same error, seems like a server outage.

[Dynratygus]

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[Soulios]

I can confirm I have never seen this error before today. It's a bit odd. did something change?

[Lihtleita]

EDIT: someone smarter than me thinks this might be because of steams servers melting during their summer sale
if this is true please give us the option to switch our pc licenses so this never happens again, thank you

[Ceridwen]

My son is getting it, too - he goes through Steam. (I don't.)

If he goes around Steam, it says his subscription has expired. (It hasn't.)

[SamiAmariyo]

same error. Steam Launcher.

[FoxyMaya]

Also ran into this Issue, My connection is wired and I'm running the game thru Steam. The error massage pops up where you are suppose to put in your log in info so I'm unable to even try to log into the game.

[Arnsgrim]

I'm getting a similar issue, but I can't even get into the log in portion of the launcher. I play through steam as well.

[Shascar]

Same error. Was working fine last night while I was playing it. Haven't had the issue before.
Launching through Steam on a wired connection.

Edit: still happens on a fresh restart without opening any other programs, though antivirus and other startup programs may still be running, though they never effected it previously.