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p>An outage prevents certain players' access to PC games.

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p>Kyle Orland - November 12 2021, 5:05 pm UTC

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p>Update: Nearly 29 hours after the initial announcement of the outage, Rockstar tweeted Friday evening that the Rockstar Launcher was back online and that the majority of the company's PC games were completely accessible. GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition was not included, though, and remains "unavailable to play or purchase as we remove files that are not included in these versions. We're sorry for the disruption and hope to have the correct versions up soon." Rockstar writes]

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p>The servers for Rockstar Games Launcher PC have been down for more than 24 hours now. PC versions of Rockstar's Games have been removed from the website of the company. The company's timing of the outage is particularly difficult, as it comes just prior to the launch of the revamped Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy.

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p>Rockstar has acknowledged the outage in a tweet Thursday afternoon, merely noting that "services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles are temporarily offline for maintenance. Services will return when maintenance is completed." After 14 hours, the company gave an update of a few minutes with the following statement "We thank you for your patience and understanding as we restore services to the Rockstar Games Launcher as well as supported games." The same update is also posted on Rockstar's support site.

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p>PC Gamer reports that the launcher is now loading offline for users who have previously launched specific games on the service. At present multiplayer games such as Red Dead Redemption Online and Grand Theft Auto Online are not accessible on PC. For those who have just downloaded the GTA Definitive Trilogy, an online authentication check will not be available during the outage.

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p>Further Reading

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p>While the authentication process might be restored in the near future but the fact that games must be logged online is frustrating. https://zenwriting.net/pagedesert80/as-part-of-the-research-project The games don't have any online features and no leaderboards for friends or the two-player mode of San Andreas. This sloppiness of the PC version is a travesty.

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p>This outage occurs one month after Rockstar removed the downloadable versions from PC and console storefronts of the first Grand Theft Auto trilogy before the remaster's launch. Anybody who has previously purchased those versions can download and play the games on their original platforms. These versions also use the Rockstar Launcher for PC, therefore, new downloads aren't yet available.

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p>Rockstar hasn't provided any information on when its PC services will be restored. We'll keep you informed as more information is made available.

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