Rockstar releases its very own games launcher for Windows

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In case you were looking for yet another games launcher for your PC, more specifically, for Rockstar games, you've been served! Launched today, the aptly-named Rockstart Games Launcher is your new gateway for anything Rockstar on Windows.

This brand-new launcher now allows you to access your PC Rockstar games across both digital and disc-based titles including ones purchased from various other digital stores. Additional features include the addition of cloud save functionality to all supported titles, the ability to keep your Rockstar Games PC library updated automatically, and ways to follow all the latest Rockstar Games news from directly inside the Launcher.

As an incentive for you to download this launcher, Rockestar is giving away for an unspecified "limited time" a free copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC within the Rockstar Games Launcher, to permanently add it to your Social Club account’s library.

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In case you were looking for yet another games launcher for your PC, more specifically, for Rockstar games, you've been served! Launched today, the aptly-named Rockstart Games Launcher is your new gateway for anything Rockstar on Windows.

This brand-new launcher now allows you to access your PC Rockstar games across both digital and disc-based titles including ones purchased from various other digital stores. Additional features include the addition of cloud save functionality to all supported titles, the ability to keep your Rockstar Games PC library updated automatically, and ways to follow all the latest Rockstar Games news from directly inside the Launcher.

As an incentive for you to download this launcher, Rockestar is giving away for an unspecified "limited time" a free copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC within the Rockstar Games Launcher, to permanently add it to your Social Club account’s library.
Ooh, do we get to play Body Harvest and Kid Kirby?
 

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bruh can we just play kid kirby for the first time? not too hard to get Kirby's license from Nintendo and run run until it's done done and the sun sun comes up in the morn?
 

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Free as in, install another backdoor trojan on your PC. Seriously though, this is the ruined Android port, without OG music and garbage graphics. Find the OG version and research SilentPatchSA the way it's meant to be played!
thanks for telling me i already own the android port on windows store and its not very well optimized so ill pass on this freebee
 

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Free as in, install another backdoor trojan on your PC. Seriously though, this is the ruined Android port, without OG music and garbage graphics. Find the OG version and research SilentPatchSA the way it's meant to be played!
Or you could de yourself a favor and play the OG with even more nostalgia on a PS4 for just 10$ with better image quality too.
 

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Has anyone actually been able to use the free game? For me it just says under buy now "This feature is not currently available"
 
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Steam provides a mechanism for downgrading games. I can't think of a single other ecosystem that allows that. What, you think R* would let you download the pre-deleted-music versions of its games?

And you're implying that any other company (besides the rare exception like GOG) would have any incentive to offer features beneficial to consumers. What a joke. Take-Two's stance is pretty well known. All these new launchers and streaming services are just a cash grab; gotta inflate those quarterly reports and pound consumers with more DRM. They forced this launcher into the Steam version of GTA-V, and broke offline mode in the process, perhaps intentionally.

"Competition" is never an absolute good. Exclusivity negates any possible benefits.
gog lets you downgrade using the launcher. i wouldn't call having to use the command line and enter numbers that can't even be found on official steam websites a proper mechanism.

other than with the special case of epic, which is paying a lot to try and make a real steam competitor, i do not believe the goal of new launchers is not to just easily make more money. i said that developers are making these launchers because they want more money and that valve needs to change to bring them back. changing how much money valve take from the developers is what i meant.
so the competition here would actually be between steam and alternative stores or the developers' own stores for which one can make the developer more money.
i will admit that it was stupid of me to say that steam would ever add more features for users because, at least right now, they are not the ones leaving. gog showed that user experience doesn't matter, people just want games.
 
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Yay, yet another useless clutter launcher that didn't need to exist. :glare:
A forced launcher that you need to use for even GTA V and potentially OTHER Steam releases, that apparently needs to be connected at any given time or else it won't work. Waiting for the generic "it's competition bruh" responses.

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So whens everyone gonna scream and cry about this one? Or is it okay because it doesn't have Fortnite on it?

Always Connected DRM has already incited some rage. Nice try on the bait though.
 

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It's not the launchers that's I hate, it's the amount of emails I get from a bunch of different sources. Telling me something about a sale, or, something wrong with their launcher.
 

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It's not the launchers that's I hate, it's the amount of emails I get from a bunch of different sources. Telling me something about a sale, or, something wrong with their launcher.
You mean, you can't just disable the emails? Most launchers should have an option that you can toggle.
 
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Seriously though, this is the ruined Android port
you got me excited and i downloaded it only to find out it's the original version

side note, launcher doesn't support gta 4, for whatever reason
 

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The last Rockstar game I truly liked was Space Station Silicon Valley on the N64. I'm good.

Rockstar is actually big enough that this launcher can make sense from a business perspective. I live in Brazil; I'm pretty sure free San Andreas is reason enough for a fuckton of people to install it over here.
 

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I'm okay, Rockstar. I got GTA 3, GTA SA, GTA VC, Max Payne, and Manhunt for 99 cents in a Humble Bundle a long time ago.
 

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You mean, you can't just disable the emails? Most launchers should have an option that you can toggle.

Of course. But, from other people in this thread have stated, launchers like these are very prone to problems and other things. Not sure if epic or this will have two step authorization. One time my epic email got hacked to hell, and I got spammed like 20 times in a single day. I should know what is going on with my account without some news story telling me that they got hacked or some crap.
 

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