Rockstar's New PC Launcher Gives You A Free Game Before Red Dead 2 Arrives

I already bought the GTA collection on Steam during a sale which included all games except GTA V.

No free game.

Where is that RDR 2 announcement?!!!

Times must be hard when this is something to complain about...Damn first world problems...

It's only a question of time before every PC game has its own website and its own launcher.

@vexter77: I think that would be an extreme stance that would probably hurt more than it helps. Take for example a magazine. Advertising might offset the cost of a magazine, but not fully pay for every copy that gets shipped out. The magazine should be able to sell advertising space to third parties and also to the person buying a copy of the magazine. There shouldn't be a law that says it can only be one or the other and two parties can't share the cost.

There might should be a law that says the product being sold has to list up front if the cost is being shared with advertisers and whether it is skippable (like on a magazine page). That way people can decide if they want to put up with third party advertising and just not buy the product if it seems like too much hassle.

Such a not only clickbait title but a low order lie. The title should have read, "Download Rockstar's new launcher and get a free game...GTA: San Andreas for your troubles".

Can I have a launcher to boot into windows too? Like I have to double click windows icon in BIOS? That would be "amazing"!

Fair enough, they pay for what they make. If they want to do their own launcher that's fine. GTA or Read Dead aren't some crowdfunded cult hits or third party games, nor is Rockstar pretending to be a messiah that will save the industry. Doesn't mean I'll download it though. Although trying to entice people with an ancient game? Really Rockstar? Can't spring for something even a little newer what with all the billions you've made off scamming kids with GTA$?

Also, piss off with that split bullshit with Epic. Has any developer, especially indie dev, ever cited the split as the reason for exclusivity? Only thing they ever cite and care about is the fat check Epic hands out. I'll also remind everyone Epic doesn't allow devs who refuse the exclusivity deals to even benefit from the split. So yeah, there's your goddamn saviour. If the split was the reason, we'd see Discord, itch.io et al. lead the way, but alas, they aren't in the business of buying PR blowjobs for thick stacks of cash.

This is what happens when Valve wants too much for its platform. Now everyone will break apart and have their own stores and launchers. Oh well. I don’t play PC anymore anyway, so won’t effect me.

All this complaining about launchers... This is what you get for supporting Steam instead of sticking to discs like me.

This makes sense. They are big enough to do this and they don't want Valve to share the profits they are getting from all that GTA V money. That game is printing the company free money for the virtual toys people are willing to pay for instead of spending an insane amount of time to earn them. RDR 2 will sell boatloads of copies and I doubt the amount of people who won't use the rockstar launcher will offset the more money they will make not being on steam anymore.

Gotta uninstall some games to make room for more launchers.

I think that we can safely assume that Read Dead Redemption 2 will be sold exclusively at their store, but I'd much prefer this than having them making scummy deals with Epic Games in the future. I still can't see buying their games though if I can't use the features that the Steam store provides.

As of right now, its a no from me. It wont have anything on it for me to want it until GTA6 comes out, after all, i'm guessing GTA6 wont be on steam and if it is, it might be timed exclusive for a year or two until steam gets its hands on it.

This is why I went back to piracy for TV, and it's why I'll either go back to piracy, or not bother their games at all. Every EA game I've skipped because it's exclusive to Origin, I skip all Epic Game exclusives, and I'll probably skip Rockstar in the future too now.

I see no value in buying games over several stores, the whole point of Steam was to have everything in one easy to access place. I use gog as well because I will support buying games without DRM, I have them all saved on my Raid backup system. However I'm just not going to use several stores....

This is like going back to the days before Steam, where everything had it's own little launcher thing. However back then it was DRM free, and at worst you needed to just download a .exe crack. Now however it's all locked to a storefront, and you have to be online :/

Obligatory "Ah ****! Here we go again."

I hate all these developers doing this because it means you have to sign up for and download and install additional bloated software, which is mainly used to push more crap on you and tie you into their ecosystem, just to play their games going forward.

Yep RDR2 confirmed for PC.

PS: for the meatheads. PC gamers aren't complaining about another launcher, they are complaining about the practices of the company that owns said launcher. For example, buying third party exclusives and then forcing you to use its inferior service.

I'm guessing there is a good chance that 2K games will come to this thing in future too. Makes sense like Ubisoft force people to buy it on the Epic Games store or get 100% of the profit when people buy the game on your launcher instead.

PC Gamers installing another launcher: https://pics.me.me/angry-black-kid-blank-template-imgflip-53285512.png