Steam Launcher not working

[Tenarit]

same problem using the steam version

[RaffSkystrike]

I experience the same issue.

[Daveena]

Also enduring the same issue.

[Swerto]

Why is steam authentication even a thing? There is no purpose for it other than causing a failure state like this.

The launcher already makes us authenticate with our license login ID and password, that should be authentication enough.

Steam does not require games to use its authentication to be sold on steam.

[Lindsey_Faelan]

Square, again... please allow us steam users the option to migrate to the stand alone version. =(

[yokye]

I'm having the same issue here.

[RandomWanderings]

I bought the game on steam almost 10 years ago, and its one of the worst mistakes I've made since I've been locked into using this client since then. I bought the game ages ago not knowing if I'd like it and now I'm locked into it with thousands of hours logged on my character. I would pay FULL GAME COST if I would be able to buy the game on PC again to avoid using steam to access the game. But I cant because steam counts as my PC license to it. I even used to use just the regular game launcher to use the game but you took that away from us in the 5.0 days due to concerns with security.

Please let us have options to get away from using Steam as the only interface for the game

[Shang]

Same here, logged out and now can't get back in. Just let us use the PC launcher please, it works fine.

[Megos]

Same issue here. Was running the game when I got disconnected, now I can't log back in.

[AzureBean]

Signed up for the forums here to say that I am experiencing the same issue. :/