GTA Trilogy Pulled from Sale on PC, Rockstar Video games Launcher Goes Down

Rockstar has pulled Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Version from sale on PC, seemingly attributable to ongoing points with its Rockstar Video games Launcher service that render it unplayable.

At time of writing, the PC model of the remastered GTA Trilogy is not available to buy on Rockstar’s website. Those that did purchase the sport on PC are unable to play it, because the Rockstar Video games Launcher – which is required to play the gathering – has been offline for round 15 hours.

Only a few hours after the discharge of the gathering, Rockstar’s support Twitter account defined, “Providers for the Rockstar Video games Launcher and supported titles are briefly offline for upkeep. Providers will return as quickly as upkeep is accomplished.” Which means GTA Trilogy, in addition to video games like GTA 5 and Crimson Useless Redemption 2 can’t be performed on PC proper now.

14 hours later, the account provided an update, saying solely, “We thanks in your endurance and understanding as we proceed to work on restoring companies for the Rockstar Video games Launcher and supported titles.”

It isn’t clear what has precipitated the necessity for upkeep or how lengthy that upkeep will take, and Rockstar hasn’t formally confirmed that the sport has been pulled from sale due to the downtime. We have now contacted Rockstar for remark.

As you would possibly count on, the response has not been good, with gamers left upset that their new assortment of single-player video games are rendered unplayable by a problem with a separate program:

I believe @RockstarGames made the case immediately for 2 issues

1) Simply put your sport on Steamn
2) Tying a SINGLEPLAYER sport to an internet launcher is past silly.

You dropped so many balls immediately Rockstar. I have been a fan for thus lengthy, however I discover it onerous to defend this degree of fail.

— Kreyg (@Kreyg) November 12, 2021

The Rockstar Video games Launcher was up lengthy sufficient to take my cash, however now I can not play the GTA Trilogy as a result of their companies are down lol pic.twitter.com/PZigmdit1F

— Candy Lu (@LCMendez) November 11, 2021

I believe it is about time for Rockstar to shift again to Steam. The Rockstar Video games Launcher has been down for practically 10 hours and I am unable to entry the video games that I paid for.

Pissed off about this all…

— Ben (@videotech_) November 12, 2021

We haven’t yet been able to review the GTA Trilogy, as a result of Rockstar did not ship codes forward of launch – you’ll be able to possible count on our verdict subsequent week.

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