Existing subscribers will probably forgive us, but the GTA+ subscription that is available in conjunction with GTA Online seems like a bad joke to us. Although it is not very expensive, we believe that such a program does not have in a game that is already infested with microtransactions, what to do. The meaningfulness of the game rewards that the subscription provides is up to everyone to judge for themselves. But the fact that GTA+ is not available on PC is also unfortunate. Although we are used to the fact that in the eyes of Rockstar Games, PC gamers are flying second-rate garbage for years, which we will undoubtedly be able to see for ourselves soon after the reveal of the sixth installment of Grand Theft Auto, but this step only it further divides an already fractured community.
Source: Rockstar GamesFull versions of classic games will make GTA+ a more attractive service, Rockstar promises
Recently, Rockstar decided to spice up the benefits of GTA+ a bit access to selected older titles from the GTA series, which is conditional on an active subscription. Even in this case, we had a laugh, or rather a cry, because it all started with the offer of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition, i.e. unsuccessful would-be remasters GTA 3, GTA: Vice City a GTA: San Andreas. Luckily yesterday they came slightly more interesting pieces, namely the mobile version GTA: Liberty City Stories a GTA: Chinatown Wars.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars are now available for GTA+ Members to play on compatible iOS and Android devices with their active GTA+ Membership: pic.twitter.com/pWSswtGsiS
— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) October 19, 2023
Both the games were newly updated and with this update came the possibility of a thirty-minute trial. You can now download both Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars to your Android or iOS mobile phone for free and try them out for 30 minutes. If you like the taste, you can pay for access to the full version for 129 CZK (Chinatown Wars) / 179 CZK (Liberty City Stories), or you can log in with your Rockstar account, and if you’re a GTA+ subscriber, you’ll get access to the full game.
But the whole thing again has one flaw. And it’s a pretty significant flaw. In order to offer a new trial and content for GTA+, those who have previously purchased GTA: Liberty City Stories or GTA: Chinatown Wars. In that case, once you enter the main menu after downloading an update or re-downloading the entire game, you’ll be greeted with the same screen that players who pick up the two older GTA mobile ports for the first time will see.
This means that you cannot use the product for which you have previously paid in the way you have been used to. Therefore, you need to subscribe to GTA+, pay again for the full version of the game, or find the proof of purchase and send a screenshot of it to Rockstar along with an email via the form that is now available in the main menu.
So if you purchased GTA: Liberty City Stories or GTA: Chinatown Wars on mobile and want to continue playing, you have to prove to Rockstar that you’ve seriously given them your money once before and wait for the company to graciously unlock the game for you. Which of course isn’t certain, so accessing something you’ve already paid for may require contacting Rockstar customer support.
By the way, even signing up for the Rockstar Social Club won’t help you at all, which is offered immediately after starting the game. I myself bought Liberty City Stories on Android at the end of 2017, after re-downloading the game I tried to log in to my account, but it didn’t change anything, if I leave the possibility to enjoy again a completely empty menu of saved positions, which in the past should have been saved via cloud (but due to some error they did not save). Until Rockstar approves the proof of purchase, which at the time of writing this has not happened even after several hours of waiting, I have no way to play the full version of the game.
As a result, it is an incomprehensible and, from a technical and organizational point of view, difficult to handle change, which simply remains at a standstill. Maybe Chinatown Wars isn’t selling as well on mobile as the Nintendo DS original or the later PSP port at the time. Maybe Liberty City Stories was accompanied by such poor sales on mobile platforms that no one preferred to bother developing a mobile version of a slightly newer spin-off GTA: Vice City Storieswhich remains the prerogative of the PSP and PlayStation 2. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a lot an anti-customer move by which Rockstar makes it clear that GTA+ subscribers have priority over those who previously bought a full, albeit older and less popular, game from them. And we’re starting to worry again about the ways Rockstar Games will screw with customers when GTA 6 finally arrives.
2023-10-20 12:40:14
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