These games include zero online functionality-not even friend leaderboards, let alone the two-player mode from San Andreas. While the games' authentication process may return before long, the fact that the games need to check in online is maddening. Advertisementįurther Reading We suggest you don’t buy the $60 Grand Theft Auto Definitive TrilogyAs Ars' own Sam Machkovech put it in his overall negative impressions of the remastered games: Services will return as soon as maintenance is completed.' Fourteen hours later, the company gave a brief update, saying, 'We thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to work on restoring services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles.' That same update also appears on Rockstar's support site. Rockstar officially noted the outage in a support tweet Thursday afternoon, merely saying that 'services for the Rockstar Games Launcher and supported titles are temporarily offline for maintenance. The timing of the outage is particularly tough for the company, coming amid Thursday's launch of the remastered Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy. The servers for the Rockstar Games Launcher on PC have been down for nearly 24 hours now, and PC versions of Rockstar's games have been removed from sale on the company's website. Comparison images provided by Rockstar Games.
