Wow oh geez oh man guys, let's not turn this into REEEEE EVERY LAUNCHER THAT ISNT STEAM BAD Let's talk about Grand Theft Auto San Andreas being free, and the fact that the Rockstar Game launcher is just a Chromium shell like everything else is now lol.

vbetts:

Wow oh geez oh man guys, let's not turn this into REEEEE EVERY LAUNCHER THAT ISNT STEAM BAD Let's talk about Grand Theft Auto San Andreas being free, and the fact that the Rockstar Game launcher is just a Chromium shell like everything else is now lol.

I agree. But the same goes otherwise, every other launcher than steam is great and steam should be isolated or dead. People need to chill out, a gamers' generation grew up with steam launcher so happily. Anyway, time to play again that old golden game. 😀

D3M1G0D:

Time to install the Rockstar launcher. Hard to pass up a free game. 😀 Gamers want a monopoly when it comes to their launchers. That's the ugly truth (that nobody wants to admit). Even though they openly say they want free competition and choice, in reality they want all their games under one launcher and want to shut down any and all alternatives. It's a very disturbing trend that's unique to PC gamers. This is one of the ugliest memes imaginable. If PC gamers turn to piracy because of the "inconvenience" of using another launcher then they don't deserve to play any games at all (games are a privilege, not a right). Console gamers would jump at the opportunity to play PC or rival console games if they only needed to install a free launcher, yet we act like it's the end of the world and a reason to commit crimes.

While true, it is understandable. I personally prefer to pay for game and play. I do not like money to be extracted from me through delivering half content upfront and then DLC... They do that because they get something extra from users. It is not feedback on quality / on what players want... sadly. If they add bloatware to game, then it should be benefit to user, not to them. Otherwise there is no reason to replace something that's already better.

If you own GTAV on Steam then don't you have the Launcher installed already? Or is this a new separate Rockstar Social Launcher?

Have they updated this version to work properly with a controller? I've had the PC version on.... Steam for years but it's just not playable with a mouse and controller and has no native usable controller support.

Thanks for the heads up...cheers! I'll grab this freebie. Just for interest/debate, does anyone know what would happen to all our Steam content IF Steam were ever to shut down? - eggs in one basket !!/? (- same applies to other stores?)

Kool64:

Have they updated this version to work properly with a controller? I've had the PC version on.... Steam for years but it's just not playable with a mouse and controller and has no native usable controller support.

I believe this is the mobile version so it should be updated for controller support.

well i claimed my free copy, but eh would rather it was threw steam, there are enough "launcher" more isnt needed but it happen seeing ever publisher under the sun seem to be getting in on this

sverek:

Quick! Throw your bodies to defend Lord Gaben 😀 I meant competition. Having Steam as the only platform probably gonna suck. But please, throw your bodies at me 😀 I am a bit lonely tonight :3

Please dude. I just use steam is all. Get over yourself. Anti steam weebs are as bad as steam fanboys.

Agonist:

Please dude. I just use steam is all. Get over yourself. Anti steam weebs are as bad as steam fanboys.

Mmm, your body is so soft :3 Throw it at me again :3 (I use Steam at 95% of the time)

vbetts:

I believe this is the mobile version so it should be updated for controller support.

you're right it actually does work with a controller properly. Now I'm quite happy. Can't beat free and the other R* games I own could be launched that way if I felt like doing so which is a decent plus.

Launchers everywhere,but no one talk about gaming&mods. 😉 Good game,but old.GTA SA,like Gta IV,need mods and do not forget about removed music from the original radio stations. https://www.gtainside.com/en/sananmods

Controller works perfectly. Just in options change keyboard+mouse to controller. Yes, there is an option there. Despite controller working with keyboard+mouse setting trying to confuse you but it is lesser and buggy in testing, I was like WTH camera is not moving at first. Rockstar trap.

Steam is the only platform you need. I was against it when it came bundled in a CS patch back in like '03 or something. After using it for nigh on two decades it is the only launcher I want or need and I didn't blooming want it in the first place. Everyone jumping on the digital distribution platform will just close off the markets. I won't be buying games anywhere else other than Steam. I have games on all the other platforms but they lack the features of Steam. You would think if they are competing with each other, that the Steam clones would have at least most of the features.

It's not free, in fact it's counterintuitive calling it "free", because it's forced through DRM and you actually don't own the game, while at the same time you let them control how you are allowed to even enjoy a product as type of a backdoor even allowing them to collect data from you, which is the complete opposite of the meaning "free". By the way, if they would call it "Rockstar DRM" instead of "Rockstar Launcher", then it wouldn't sound that "free" anymore, right?

TalentX:

It's not free, in fact it's counterintuitive calling it "free", because it's forced through DRM and you actually don't own the game, while at the same time you let them control how you are allowed to even enjoy a product as type of a backdoor even allowing them to collect data from you, which is the complete opposite of the meaning "free". By the way, if they would call it "Rockstar DRM" instead of "Rockstar Launcher", then it wouldn't sound that "free" anymore, right?

Are you paying for it with currency? No, then it's free. So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.

vbetts:

Are you paying for it with currency? No, then it's free. So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.

LMAO. ahahahahahaha rawr SJW DRM BAD that made my day. 😀

vbetts:

Are you paying for it with currency? No, then it's free. So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.

And don't take it personally but please keep SJ out of this discussion. It has nothing to do with it. A lot of the DRM solutions out there are effectively bad and rely on hidden device drivers that are not really device drivers at all and you can't uninstall them unless you know what you are doing. Being against it has nothing to do with SJ it's just common sense. I know it's cool to be against anything that looks remotely close to some sort of SW but all computer knowledgeable persons should be against a piece of software installing hidden device drivers (that are not device drivers) on their computer. In fact Microsoft should have never allowed such practice to be made on Windows in my book and such fake device drivers should have been considered as virus (which they are) and automatically deleted by Windows Defender. I know you were answering to a post referring to clients like Steam requiring someone to be online to play their games and it's vastly different than other DRM solutions installing **** without the computer owner's consent (other than the consent to install the actual piece of software) and i actually agree with you and i don't mind having to log in to play my games (outside of when some stupid kids ddos Blizzard's game servers) but in your post you were kind of targeting being against DRM as a whole and i don't think i'm comfortable with that personally. This said i never played any GTA game (for real) so i'll install the client and take a look at it. The name of the client (Rockstar Social Club) is ... let's just say rather 90ish.

Please install DirectPlay. Damn, oldest old in the whole old since old began.

vbetts:

Are you paying for it with currency? No, then it's free. So let's keep these rawr SJW DRM BAD posts out please.

I don't know what this "SJW DRM BAD" is supposed to mean (Sorry I don't speak English naively), but just because you're not paying for a game with currency doesn't automatically mean that it's free. You pay with your freedom and you support this kind of business model that will restrict you even more in the future. Maybe you didn't realize it, but mainstream game publishers have started to become more aggressive with such methods lately.