What just happened? Chiliad Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition arrived yesterday in the midst of massive anticipation from fans of the series. Sadly, the release has been far from smoothen. Non only has Rockstar's games launcher been offline for more than 17 hours, but the PC version has been removed from auction.

The GTA Trilogy arrived on November 11, but just a few hours subsequently the remaster landed, Rockstar tweeted that its Games Launcher was downwardly for maintenance, significant those who bought the PC version have been left unable to play it.

At the fourth dimension of writing, the Rockstar Games Launcher is nevertheless offline, around 17 hours afterward the house's initial tweet. It appears that the issues accept prompted Rockstar to remove the PC version of the trilogy from the company's store. Interestingly, VGC reports that information miners take since discovered the PC version of the GTA Trilogy reportedly contains all the music that'south no longer licensed, equally well as uncompiled code with developer comments.

The launcher'due south issues mean other Rockstar games are also unplayable on PC, including Carmine Expressionless Redemption ii, Grand Theft Auto V, and their online elements.

Given the enormous number of people who play Rockstar's games and the amount of coin the company will be losing every minute these titles are inaccessible, we can wait the launcher to come dorsum online soon plenty. The latest tweet it posted, which was three hours ago, read: "We thank you for your patience and agreement equally we continue to piece of work on restoring services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles."