The launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition could have gone better, especially on PC. Just as the game was going live worldwide, the Rockstar Games Launcher went down for maintenance and the remasters inexplicably stopped being available for purchase on the platform. Now, both launcher and game are back up on PC.
Fans have been bashing the remasters on other platforms aplenty, with r/GTA being inundated with gifs and videos showcasing the numerous bugs and shortcomings of The Definitive Edition - the big Burger Shot burger doesn't spin! - and plenty of memes riffing on the new releases. However, no platform has had it as bad as PC.
Seemingly moments after release, Rockstar took down both the game and the entire Rockstar Games Launcher for "maintenance. After over a day of downtime, the developer finally confirmed what most people began to suspect after a bit of datamining uncovered some interesting things in the game files.
Since some people apparently did manage to download and install the game before Rockstar pulled the plug, three particularly suspect tidbits showed up - one, despite the in-game song selection of all three games being cut down due to lapsed licenses, all of the 'removed' songs were actually in the game, just with a small script disabling them. The audio format of the radio songs, as well as a way to enable them, was discovered.