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GTA Trilogy was pulled due to "unintentionally included" files

The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition is still unavailable on PC, and it may have been pulled due to the music.

The GTA Trilogy PC was pulled from sale – which is apparently due to "unintentionally included" files that may have been songs.

The remastered Grand Theft Auto Trilogy – GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas – was released yesterday and things didn't go very well at all for the PC version. Aside from raising eyebrows due to these PS2 games having after Rockstar pulled the originals from Steam – went down immediately and was offline for a day.

At the same time, Rockstar also pulled the GTA Trilogy PC version from sale without explanation – which it now says is because it is removing "files unintentionally included in these versions".

These files may actually be unused songs in the game's soundtrack, which dataminer cut from the older games due to licence expiration are apparently still in the game, just disabled – such as the entire original song list for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

https://twitter.com/Rockstar/status/1459311246789038089

We've reached out to Rockstar to clarify its statement and will update this post if we hear anything back. Hopefully it can avoid another Hot Coffee situation – where it got into trouble for leaving a bunch of files it shouldn't have in GTA: San Andreas.