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Grand Theft Auto IV has been removed from sale on Steam
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Steam straight up doesn't allow publishers to take away anyone's games. Even if they want to, they can't.
Yeah we all know Rockstar Games only has like a couple bucks to their name.
They are just an indie studio I don't think they have the resources for that unfortunately.
They already did this a couple years ago for GTA IV, but yeah these may be more cuts and substitutions in the future.
Disclaimer, I don't work in the music industry.
...but you think the recording companies that own the rights to music recognized worldwide would ever be satisfied with a one-time payment for a perpetual license when they could charge for a perpetual subscription?
could never get the game to play. well i could get it loaded up but it would bug out in the settings. never seen any gameplay.
maybe they could actually fix it.
maybe they could actually fix it.
There was a custom patch to remove it as well as another solving gpu memory issues so you could run it at hd+ res
I just feel like if they haven't done it in the last 10 year's why do it now.
I meant not being able to play it because of the GFWL DRM.
If they're going to re-release it with steamworks, maybe those who had it with GFWL get a free updated version, like Bioshock and the Batman Arkham games
Launching the game through Steam has been bugged for years. You have to launch the game from it's folder or there are severe performance issues.
one of the few games that would never launch on any pc i ever tried it on, the other being borderlands 1
Interesting...I installed the latest patch from the rockstar support site but still launched from steam. I'll give this a try
You should still be able to play it though, I believe there is a work around for it - not just for GTAIV but for other GFWL games.
Yeah I just tried playing it and it still works, even got to log into GFWL.
Hmm. Well I doubt they'll be fixing anything previously wrong with it but at least it'll return at some point I guess.
Rockstar/2K doesn't use Denuvo, but their only competitor (arxan), so nope.
Money, the terms would be really hard. But, also, licenses shift as companies or people who own the licenses are bought and sold, or... as is the case with so many music artists, die. No other medium other than videogames has something like ambient music "in the background" that the player can control... Like, while there's licensed music in movies, it's pretty rare for a character in a movie to "flip through the radio" and have 50 different songs play, but this is just something you come to expect in a videogame.
After GTA:SA music publishers and artists woke up to the fact that these games sell tens or hundreds of millions of copies and are billion-dollar properties long term. THis shifted Rockstar to have to go for much more niche music for GTAIV and GTAV. THey have a few hits on there of course, but most of the songs on Throwback FM or the 80s/90s rock station in GTAIV or V aren't the hits from those generations... it's like the B-sides from those generations. Even Non-Stop Pop from GTAV, I think that's an amazing playlist, but for something that is supposed to be a pop station, it's mostly like hipster Bsides of pop, Pet Shop Boys, GImme More by Britney, maybe one or two actual mega hits (Rhiana Only girl in the world), etc.
Where as ... GTA:VC and San Andreas had legit bangers. The 90s rap station in GTA:SA was literally a best of from 91-93, and then they so cleverly had the "Master Sounds" station which was tons of the original funk songs that the 90s hip hop songs used as samples. I knew about sampling from the 1990s music licensing/sampling "wars," but didjn't know any of those original songs... and I feel like playing the casino tables in Las Venturas is what introduced me to all of those, like "WTF... this is Express Yourself... isn't it........" Now, sadly, "Master Sounds" radio station in GTA:SA has lost a ton of iconic songs.
I'm sure Rockstar tried to get long licensing terms for GTAV, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of those songs start dropping off, especially the classic rock ones like Seger. Seger was notoriously anti-digital licensing for ages anyway. It was really surprising he had tracks in GTAV to begin with.
You're also seeing license disputes in TV with streaming.
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Reality shows are known for using a ton (Jersey Shore) and some had ended up being sold without the music intact (The Hills). Both MTV shows.
Yeah... the 90210 one is interesting too. 90210, when it launched was one of the first popular shows that had contemporary popular music in it... Season 1 had a famous scene with Losing My Religion when Brenda and Dylan broke up. It was so unique at the time to have a contemporary song that was topping the charts used in a TV show, and made that song even more popular. When the VHS/DVDs were released, it had the music in it. BUt, when 90210 went to streaming, it was replaced with this SUPER CHEESY muzak which ruins the whole thing. I wish you could get a comparison scene online of the original broadcast airing and the streaming version.