"Create a Relic Account" pop up when starting the game

Morfeas

How disgusting is this?
We are being told they no longer offer support for this game (read bug reporting), yet both Chaos Rising and Retribution force a steam pop up that asks you to create a Relic Account to get some "free gear" (cringey by itself)? And it just keeps asking you every time you start the game up. How about NO, darling. Absolutely shameful. Expecting a way to suppress the popup, thank you very much.

Gorb

SEGA handles any support tickets that you may need to submit.

Is this behaviour new? I don't understand the link between that and getting no further patches, however.

Morfeas

Of course it's new, it wasn't happening a month ago. And I don't see how I would have to contact Sega since it's Relic trying to force me to make an account. The link, as I stated above, is dropping support from a game, yet sticking around to fish people into making accounts.

To avoid misunderstandings, can someone confirm whether this happens for them too?

Gorb

SEGA owns Relic, and decision Relic makes will usually have signoff from SEGA. Especially with regards to business practise / community management (SEGA own these forums, for example, even though Relic technically run them).

I've launched the game, verified the integrity of my game cache and ran the game again. I got no such prompt. Do you have, or can you get, a screenshot of what is happening?

I've never heard of a "Relic Account" in the first place, barring the incredibly-limited application of pre-Steam Company of Heroes that used a Relic-specific multiplayer account setup. This was removed when the game was migrated to Steamworks.

Morfeas

Aaaaand they're gone. No pop ups today.

No idea how or why. And I'm not really curious to find out either. If it happens again in the future I'll just necro this thread and insta screen shot to make sure I haven't gone mad.

Thanks for being patient with my rage Gorb, carry on.

Mr_Ruin

There was a pop-up asking me to create an account but opened only once to me. And also can't find what was that about, so any info at all?

Ruzdreg

I've encountered this twice (both on the same day). I saw it last week when I started playing the game again. But as everyone else has said, it has already gone away. It opens up in a Steam window, and is solid yellow with black text and the Relic Logo. I don't recall if there were any links in it, I just immediately closed the window.

Gorb

If anyone could get a screenshot when it happens, that would be handy! Still haven't come across it myself.

GeneralSkull

indeed i what to see what these badges and new gear is like but no nothing happend when i got this relic account