GTA Trilogy dev blasts Rockstar Games for ‘d**k move’ after removing credit

An update to GTA: The Trilogy has sparked choler from the game’s developers, aft the studio’s sanction was removed from the opening screen.

Remaster postulation GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition should person been an casual triumph for Rockstar Games erstwhile it released successful 2021, but the crippled was mired successful contention implicit its bug-ridden state.

Almost 3 years later, an update has fixed the compilation immoderate notable upgrades, including amended animations, lighting effects, and different ocular improvements for GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas.

The update, however, has caused immoderate contention with the port’s main developer, Grove Street Games, aft each mentions of the workplace were removed from the opening rubric screen.

As noted successful various posts connected X, the updated opening titles person wholly removed Grove Street Games from the splash screen, with steadfast Rockstar, who made the archetypal games, present the lone 1 mentioned.

While the developer is inactive listed successful the remaster’s closing credits, Grove Street Games CEO Thomas Williamson has since called retired Rockstar, for what helium describes arsenic a ‘dick move’.

‘Speaking wholly hypothetically: It’s a dick determination to region superior developers from credits successful an update, particularly erstwhile an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed retired of players’ hands for years,’ Williamson posted connected X.

There is different twist to this tale. A mobile larboard of GTA: The Trilogy was released past year, which was developed by different workplace named Video Games Deluxe, made up of erstwhile members of L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi.

This mobile version, which included assorted improvements implicit the archetypal port, was acold amended received, with galore of the caller additions – similar the classical lighting mode – being added to the console versions done this caller update.

Video Game Deluxe has since been added to the console version’s closing credits, pursuing this update, which suggests these improvements are mostly based connected that studio’s work.

While there’s intelligibly immoderate interior politics astatine play, it’s Rockstar that is chiefly astatine responsibility here. They didn’t make the remastered postulation but they were inactive successful complaint of it and decided to merchandise it successful its bug-ridden state, alternatively of delaying it.

Rockstar is presently afloat steam up connected the highly-anticipated GTA 6, with galore fans expecting a caller trailer to drop earlier the extremity of the year.

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