GTA: The Trilogy Pulled From PC Storefront Due to Glitches

GTA: The Trilogy has been pulled from the PC storefront due to glitches, with the game experiencing numerous bugs and frame rate drops.

[Orchard]

There were 'rumors' online that the source files to the games were included in the PC version in a (decryptable) .pak file. Rockstar have now stated that it was made unavailable to play and purchase due to files being unintentionally included in the game:

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[TheGreatDane]

Nice catch

[excaliburps]

Hahaha. That’s something

[Fntastic]

It will probably get shared around if some already had the files, and then edited to make the game better. There's supposedly already a team working on multiplayer for SA.

[jeromeface]

More like hot coffee files and the old radio tracks... script files aren't source code...

[Phoenix76]

Well, there goes "Grove Street Games" bonus for this re_release

[Stanjara]

2k: Holliday season people, put thos game out now!!!!!!! NOOOOWWW!!!!

[SullysCigar]

Poor form, Rockstar. What's the matter, not enough money?!

[galgor]

It's like going to the shop and paying for a sandwich, having a taste, sensing it's not right, and then the shop says no you can't have that any more because we did zero amounts of quality control. And they tell you this via email. In your spam folder.

Rockstar can piss right off for everything about this release.

[Popsicle]

This was a pure nostalgia play intended to make a quick buck. You could tell from quality of the remaster in the trailer they never intended to put much effort into the project. It would have cost them more but a developer similar to Bluepoint could have worked wonders with this trilogy and it would have tempted me to put money into it.

[jeromeface]

Some of us wanted the old games on modern platforms with better controls.. that's what we got. What you're asking for is something like the final fantasy 7 project that's taking years... no thanks.

[Popsicle]

No I’m not talking about an FF7 Remake type project. I’m talking about something similar in quality to Destroy All Humans or perhaps even similar or slightly lesser quality than Demon Souls. Not an entire reimagining of the franchise.

If you want to charge me money for a product that I already purchased 20 years ago, then I personally need something of quality in return. Otherwise I will play these games on my OG Xbox if I am searching for a nostalgic rush. If you are willing to part with your money for a change in button layout then that’s your personal preference and that’s ok. As for me, there are just too many games of quality out there that I have yet to fully experience.

[Shane Kim]

Sounds just like any other GTA ever released.

[YodaCracker]

I have to disagree with that. GTA games are usually extremely polished and relatively bug-free, considering their massive scope. Same with RDR and most Rockstar releases.

[Seraphim]

I'd have to disagree. These early GTA's were far from "extremely polished" at the time of release. Sure with GTA IV and, especially V, they provided a better polished game with fewer bugs/glitches but before that, GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas were riddled with issues. I'd have to restart my game at least twice a night, probably more, back when these released. Every single night it was bugs/glitches such as falling through the map, getting stuck in some random location, etc. that forced a reset....

Thing is pretty much all Open World games of that time that were bloody messes. Even beyond that, Elder Scrolls has always been a buggy mess and there's certainly several to many other franchises or titles that are just buggy as all hell. Cyberpunk was a dream compared to most games I played back then. Though I also played Cyberpunk on PS5 so experienced very few issues through a Platinum playthrough... but there was a general lack of quality during the PS2 era. We had no shortage of bug/glitch riddled games back then. Sure there were plenty of great games but for every one of them we probably 2+ that just failed to deliver a polished and finished game.

[neutralgamer1992]

Why rush this because instead of giving 2 years they could have planned ahead and give 3-4 years and these games would have sold so well. Now our only hope is they hey serious about fixing the bugs and glitches and we get patches and these games become better in next 6 months

This was the first release in a long time I was going to buy digitally to play and buy physical later to double dip. Now I will wait for physical and most probably wait till there are many big patches to fix the game. That's $120 lost from one game and I am sure many others are disappointed and are holding off on buying