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Released earlier today, the remastered GTA Trilogy is now out on Steam. You might be thinking that, after such a long wait between the initial release on PC via the Rockstar Launcher and today’s Steam launch, Rockstar has put out a new, big patch to further improve the collection. But while that’s a sensible thought to have, that’s not actually the case. Instead, these are the same broken and buggy games that haven’t received any kind of update at all since the tiny performance update in October 2022 that didn’t fix anything.

To be fair, GTA: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition is currently on sale on Steam as part of a larger Rockstar Games deal, so you’re only paying $30 for three games. But it still seems pretty audacious to ask people to buy something that has been so consistently reported as broken, buggy, and bad for the last two years and not even offer any kind of small patch to improve things at all.

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Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar about any future updates to the remastered GTA trilogy.

Naturally, players aren’t happy about this. On Twitter, in response to Rockstar’s tweet announcing the Steam ports, you can find a lot of angry and confused players, unsure why this took so long, why it is still broken, and why Rockstar thinks this is okay. There aren’t many reviews up for any of the classic GTA games in the collection, but early reviews are filled with people complaining about bugs or that the games don’t run well at all on the Steam Deck.

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While some hold out hope that Rockstar will still swoop in, patch these games up and fix all the visual bugs and other problems, that seems more unlikely after today. Instead, it seems this is as good as things are going to get. Not to mention that Rockstar has plans to release these games on the Epic Store later this month, too. It does seem as if the time to fix GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas has run out and Rockstar is ready to move on. What a shame.