GTA Trilogy is available again on PC

This is perhaps the most missed launch of this year 2021: Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, the compilation of remasters of the PlayStation 2 episodes of the Rockstar Games franchise, did not have a very happy early days.

After being withdrawn from sale on PC for several days by its publisher the day after its release, GTA Trilogy is finally back on the Rockstar Games Launcher…

GTA Trilogy back on PC

The PC version of GTA Trilogy is thus again available for sale, as confirmed by Rockstar Games on its official Twitter account. The publisher also claims to work on “improvements in in-game performance”For the title which continues to suffer from many technical pitfalls since its launch last week.

After making it available on November 11, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has been subject to a wave of various and varied problems, both on consoles and on PC. Several users who pre-ordered the game on PlayStation were able to launch a game well before the official launch time. A gap was quickly corrected by Rockstar … But on PC, it’s a different story.

The controversy files

So, just a few hours after launch GTA Trilogy on PC, the Rockstar Games Launcher – the interface that provides access to the publisher’s titles – has simply been taken offline. Players who acquired GTA Trilogy simply couldn’t access the game for several days – a technical issue that lasted until last night.

During this downtime, Rockstar Games also withdrew from sale GTA Trilogy on PC, explaining that the title contained “files whose presence was not intentional“. If the publisher has not given more precision as to the nature of these, Internet users have made very interesting discoveries. The PC version of the game contained not only music tracks supposedly withdrawn by Rockstar for these remasters, but also files related to the famous Hot Coffee, the secret sex mode which caused a scandal when the game was launched on PC in 2005 …