Rockstar has launched its very own launcher via which PC gamers can enjoy the company’s games. In order to celebrate this launch, the team is currently offering Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for free to everyone that downloads the launcher.
Do note that this is a limited offer. Rockstar has not stated when this offer will end, so we suggest acquiring this GTA game while you still can. Well, that is obviously if a) you are fine with yet another launcher and b) you don’t already own San Andreas.
According to its description, Rockstar’s launcher supports all of Rockstar’s PC games. Moreover, it supports cloud saves and supports automatic updates.
As Rockstar stated:
“The Rockstar Games Launcher is a new Windows desktop application that allows you to quickly and easily access your Rockstar Games PC collection in a single place, across both digital and disc-based titles including ones purchased from various other digital stores. You can also use the Launcher to shop for new Rockstar Games PC titles to add to your collection.”
Since Rockstar has released its own launcher, it will be interesting to see what will happen with its future PC games. While Red Dead Redemption 2 has not been officially announced yet for the PC, we all know that it will eventually come out on our platform. As such, it will be interesting to see whether it will be exclusive to Epic Games Store and Rockstar’s Launcher, whether it will only come out on Rockstar’s launcher, or whether it will come out simultaneously on all digital stores.
You can download the launcher from here.
Have fun everyone!
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I’m with you. But you and I both know it wont. These Dev’s and publisher are trying to cut out the middle man. For 100% profit
Sad but true…
Middle man?
Are you crazy?
Gabe is more like Triple man! Have you seen his size?
Yeah and because of greed gaming is becoming cancer
well honestly steam needs to step up there game , they used to be company which produced high quality PC exclusives , now they aren’t making any good AAA games & those sony console peasants makes fun of us PC gamers with there exclusives
What collection of Rockstar games are they talking about?
Haha I know, Rockstar has the least games in the industry of all time. They make 1 game every 7-10 years ago. Pffft, Rockstar.
They’ve released 50 games since 1999.
and how many of those are PC games? c’mon dude, don’t be coy.
16 with two more coming.
22(23) with 1(2) upcoming.
It’s not the number of games they’re concerned about. Before RDR2 they are still raking in millions just through GTAV alone.
It’s all about the number of hardcore fans they’ll be milking on their own platform without the pesky review bombs or critiques on new gambling features.
hahahaha
Oh, fantastic, good bye regional pricing/currency to RDR2…
Maybe not. Just checked their store and it has regional pricing.
Oh, you are right, thanks for sharing, it has regional currency too : )
Have fun having another launcher
Holy sht were swarmed by launchers. Well there goes my hope RDR2 would be on steam…
It may still be. All their other games currently are. It could be just like Total War where they have their own launcher but you can still buy and play your games on Steam. At least i am hoping. I am ready to throw money at them for the 3rd time for RDR2 on pc lol.
the Housers are jews?
greedy Jews
Nazi, Muslim, or just leftist? Don’t be such an anti-Semite.
I don’t remember there’s a jew guy named Santiago…
Your comment just made me lose 1000 iq points.
You are not rolling, Rick.
Anyone with even a modicum of intellectual curiosity would know that St. James the Apostle is the patron saint of Spain’s 800-year war to free itself from Islamic tyranny.
And he’s Jewish, just like the Son of God. So what?
arab and persian muslims are semite you know.
All descendants of Shem are literally “Semites.” But that’s not the common, everyday understanding of anti-Semite, a fact you know very well, or you wouldn’t be posting that.
go f[…]
No, thanks. My heart doesn’t palpitate at your perverse paraphilic predilections.
But cheer up! It looks like you’ve got some strange bedfellows who might be interested.
You are such an @sshole. I love it. Keep it up.
This definitely seems like a precursor to releasing Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC….
I’m not thrilled about installing another piece of software on my PC just to play a game, but I am excited to play RDR2. I haven’t played it yet because I’ve been waiting on a PC release. What better way to launch their launcher than to release RDR2 right after it?
He, if they wanna push people towards piracy….
Uplay, steam, origins, rockstar… we play launchers, not games.
I don’t know my friend, Novtuah here, or Noctuah;
My thoughts? My One X purchase is proven the better choice, the more this John dude makes threads, as much as they are clients for games on the computer, not that I needed him to make threads, talk about, like, follow and obey, right? LMAO .
That’s the way John-san, show how truthful Noctuah really is and through Amber I only rise, aye you know what though?
Yes, what you can do, is simply make a folder somewhere and make them all shortcuts, if you want a fix or w.e lol .
Uplay, battle.net, origins, rockstar, gog, steam, epic, bethesda… ):
Amazingly frustrating…
2019, to me red flag was Epic games store
Right now that launcher is pointless. It just scans your Steam and tells to launch your games via Steam. And not all but the ones they’re selling on store. So I “don’t own” MP 1-2 and GTA 4 apparently.
pirate it instead, specifically the original version not the re-release they removed alot of sons and hot coffee
Errrm Hot Coffee removed 14 years ago in 1.1 and 2.0
yes
Max payne 3 was freaking garbage, too scripted, it had like 2 minutes of game play followed by 1 minute of cut scenes and the level design was so tight that i couldnt do shoot dodges there just wanst any room. Its not a max payne game even the narrative and atmosphere is wrong.
That’s exactly what made it so good. Perfect pacing, gameplay and soundtrack. Still loved more the story in Max Payne 2, but overall 3 was the best, imo. If only Remedy would have have learned from Rockstar to do proper fluid gameplay again.
” Perfect pacing”
hahahaha lol ok sure, weapon parts placed behind you during a action scene, weapons taken from you because you climbed a ladder, every time you got into it a cutscenes interrupted gameplay and your character equipped the pistol,so you had to switch weapons in the middle of a gunfight, the pacing was the world part of it.
Absolute Terrible dialog script , absolutely terrible pacing and very idiotic gameplay changes , over the shoulder camera on a max payne game….changing the guns back without consent after a cutscene…if you didnt play or dont remember Max Payne 1 and 2 , i can see you liking it , anyone else will know that Max Payne 3 wasn’t a real Max Payne game.
I played and loved them, but Max Payne 3 was a lot better overall. Sure, no more of the noir atmosphere first two had, but man, it really compensated that through much improved control, cover mechanics, gameplay variety, soundtrack, acting… you name it. And changing weapons for cutscenes, npcs speaking portuguese were only conscious design choices that only added to immersion. Not only best Max Payne game, best third person shooter too. Only problem is people were expecting the noir atmosphere and instead got a more exotic and varied game, with a much more believable story.
The setting was the least of MP3’s problems. You just have extremely bad taste.
You just have extremely bad arguments. Or none at all.
max payne 3 = max payne the movie………… !!! ^^
atleast the movie had that film noir style and paranormal stuff, max payne 3 was just a gangster movie with self hatred.
Haha, you’re on point today man. Good job ?
no i expected the game not to interrupt me every 2 minutes and take my weapon away or switch to the pistol.
I couldn’t even finish the game, it was quite bad. My biggest mistake was that I played Max Payne 3, right after action filled Mass effect 3. That follow up was a bad idea and it made my experience a bad one.
Man, if you’re talking about action, Max Payne 3 is the game to go. Played it 5 times without getting bored for a single second. Was a much better choice than playing some other… ‘innovative’ sh**ty games by Remedy. They could have learned something from Rockstar, as Rockstar learned from them… and ‘action filled Mass Effect 3’? What game was that? Mass Effect 3 was an okish game as story, not action or gameplay. Mass Effect 2 was much better, especially towards the end.
It also had fake loading messages to try to force you to watch the cutscenes.
it prided itself in not having loading screens but it did every single one cutscene was a loading screen that you could not skip and it feels it had more cutscene than a 3 hour movie.
stop complaining you asked for this moron. You told us to stop whining about these things, ok now you get 42 launchers, enjoy it.
I won’t even bother….. everyone else has already highlighted how f**king stupid this is already.
I see us slowly regressing back to the late 90/early 00’s of littered desktops/taskbars, sigh…
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This looks already depressing
between this and the lack of ports getting better/more detailed, and EGS, yeah I’d say it’s looking pretty bleak about now.
I’m glad we’ve gotten a few good games/indies over the years, but AAA is still the same as it was 10 years ago, hardly progressing, still costing a lot to buy, as well as coming with money diming MT’s.
I feel like I’m losing my general simplicity and convenience with PC gaming, simply because a few fat cats want more, and one rich boy who seeks to own the market for himself (Timmy boy).
The fact is now its like a new trend for garbage games and their own launchers enough is enough.
Soon we will see where every god damn company (huge ones that have money) will make their own garbage launchers and people gonna download them just to play some garbage game like Anthem lol
I’d rather not set up an excuse to allow greedy pubs to splinter the libraries for the cut.
Oh woe is them, 30m vs making 70m, and not 100m.
The last update butchered this game. Plunder an earlier version instead.
Guaranteed all future rockstar pc games will be exclusive to their own store. I highly doubt they invested the cash and resources to build it and then also give steam and everyone a percentage of sales. Willing to bet Read Dead 1 and 2 come to their launcher.
Fully expect no mod support, a tiny library, still delayed PC ports and higher prices to boot.
I can tell you this its probably the most minimum work they put in the launcher LOL. Probably gonna stay dead without most important features.
I can see RDR2 on Rockstar app exclusive from miles away.
There is a saying if its not on steam just pirate it
If a company delays a Steam release for more than 15 minutes, you’re legally allowed to pirate it.
Kinda true 😀 tho I dont like pirating or support it but I can understand if a third world country prices are f@@ked up lol
Another barebones Battlenet clone launcher, complete with no mod support and high prices….
No thanks, I’m good.
Yeah, that’s a huge hint at WANTING mod support.
So this is a replacement launcher for those already using the Rockstar Social Club launcher as I just discovered when trying to load GTA V (RSC version).
What are the odds that it behaves like a spyware and checks for every file on your HHDs without permission?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL YEAH this is exactly what we need now another f@@king launcher, jezus christ like PC community doenst have enough cancer already for example Epic store.
Remember people rockstar doesnt give a f@@k about PC community. I didnt even buy GTA 5 they can go to hell.
funny thing this launched back when l.a.noire released for pc i think or even before that, bought retail copy which uses social club only even though it is not store front like epic it has achievements,social space,cloud saves. servers sh*t at time to download patches yet they managed to have basic stuff( i though this was sh**ty launcher back then). 2019 we have epic launcher still having issues with cloud saves, no achievements or social space and it is store front to sell many games especially 3rd party with lot of money to throw around and still no decent features. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/38cb310c30b71b61e4d81750231aeb42f0e7c262be72b2200e227e7e7f721773.png
Epic has shown many times they dont give a f@@K about consumers or developers they just want to steam that they will never be a monopoly.
monopoly but sony/ms charges same amount its not like steam is pushing gun there are other stores to sell games on pc people could always go there so why is issue for epic with just steam most of these sales for games are on consoles.
Steam is saved pc industry for pc gaming. Unlike others that bashed it like Epic. The fact is Tim sweeeeeny wants monopoly over PC gaming since fortnite wont live forever.
Is it a launcher or a storefront?
R* has had it’s own launcher for years, tons of games also have had their own launchers depite releasing with Steam
Easy: Red Dead Redemption 2 will be Rockstar launcher exclusive.
If we narrow the gaming world into Rockstar only,yes…max Payne 3 is awesome,better than GTAV
“Red Dead Redemption 2 has not been officially announced yet for the PC,
we all know that it will eventually come out on our platform.” If they wanted it or cared they would have released ages ago LOL. How can publisher/developer be so sh*ty to leave one community of players totally in the dark and not even hinting properly that its gonna come out on pc. F@@k rockstar and f@@k 2k greedy f@@ks
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Well, I have just one called qBittorrent
I found Max Payne 3 very pretentious and more interested in being a movie than a game, and not just a movie in general, a specific movie called Man on Fire which it was imitating way too closely for comfort.
Too much work went to the presentation in comparison to how little work went into the mechanics and the game was too eager to take control away from you to make you watch lengthy cutscenes instead, going as far as implementing fake loading messages to prevent you from skipping cutscenes even on repeat playthroughs. Max Payne 3 is a chore to replay and the shooting mechanics don’t hold up, there is too much clunkyness and inconsistency to how Max moves and interacts with the environment, the amount of bullets enemies can take in the later levels is at odds with the realistic presentation and their hit reactions, the aiming tries to “help” the player by changing the speed of the reticle depending on whether or not it’s on top of an enemy, creating further inconsistency and making it annoying to aim, in general the aiming feels clunky and heavy just like Max’s movements.
I would be surprised if the people who praise Max Payne 3 played it more than once, it’s easy to become dazzled by the presentation and then put the game away after one playthrough feeling like you just watched a cool action movie, the problem is that this is supposed to be a video game and, as far as movies goes, Max Payne 3 is not even as good as the movie it’s trying to imitate.
Which version of the game is this? is this 1.0? or the same as steam?
I agree with most of what you said, except for max Payne; that game was utter garbage.
They already had a launcher, some GTAV copies sold not for steam but for Rockstar social club, so whats the difference?
someone tell me was this the old launcher for max 3 and gta v
I like the newer one then that sh**ty one in the pic
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Ahhh yes social club where you need to google how to download GTA V LOL
Can’t wait to get my hands in a 32 Core CPU so I can handle all launchers working all together.
No GTA IV support? No thanks. I’ve already got the CD version of GTA: SA anyways. Meaning to finish it someday…
My copy won’t even launch because it failed to connect to Rockstar Social Club or something. Needless to say I’ve ignored all Rockstar titles since then.
Steam,Battlenet, Epic, GOG, Itchio, Uplay, Origin, Bethesda Launcher, Windows Store
Another launcher bites the PC. :))
Max Payne 2 it’s my favourite.