I have also noticed this happening with me. Sometimes I forget to hit stop. Going to rack up a lot of extra ‘hours played’ 
Someone posted earlier that it doesn’t seem to do the forever thing if the server you logged on to doesn’t use battleye.
So far it has worked 100% for me to log on to a non battleye server, even just to character creation, then exit. CE shuts down on its own within two minutes. This is after playing on an official or private server that does use BE.
That said I’ve only tried this four times so it’s not conclusive but seems promising. While a real fix would be preferred this could be a workaround in the meantime.
Error still exist.
Yes, same problem with me since a few month. I always have to “stop” the game in Steam.
CTRL+ ALT + Delete
That’s not it. I never play on BE servers and in fact I don’t even use the battle eye client (it’s optional) so it’s not even loaded in my .exe.
I still get the bug.
It is not even a server problem, it is with single play too.
I tried this. WRONG. Same issue occurred even after a reinstallation of the game.
I didn’t see him saying anything about reinstalling the game… Do you get the joke now ?
When I force stop the game from the library page OR Task Manager, Malwarebytes reports three outgoing connection attempts upon fully stopping the game. I believe that it’s a false positive, and that Funcom’s software is possibly attempting to update its own cloud, bazaar and Battleeye info. Regardless, this is a technical issue that Funcom seems either unwilling or unable to solve. It isn’t a Steam issue, because it only occurs with Conan Exiles of all the many games I play through Steam–some of which also have stores.
Would be a great plan for the December hotfix, along with the dying Thralls.
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Still having this issue, game runs until I press STOP.
I only just noticed this. No wonder why when i play other games i have 30% of my memory already been taken up by a game that continues to run after i was. Now i have to check task manager every time i quit the game.
Error still exist.
Has been a feature for us as well.
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i have the same problem. I go to the task manager to end the progrm
Same here. Fresh installed Conan Exiles just two weeks ago to get my fix and every time I quit I need to manually stop progress trough Steam after quitting too. Simply hitting “Exit Game” doesn’t seem to exit fully.
I get this to time to time. its not always 100%
MH Wilds does this too. I gotta Task Manger quit its ass if I wanna relaunch.