Steam Users Split on GTA V Enhanced as Rockstar Issue Fixes

This is why we can't have nice things. Or, a new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, for that matter. Just days after Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced for free to all users on Steam, Epic Games Store, and Rockstar Games Launcher, the Grand Theft Auto V upgrade is getting mixed reviews on Valve's digital games distribution platform.

If you head on over to the official Steam page of GTA V Enhanced, you'll see that nearly 50% of all reviews of the game are negative, with most comments revolving around either the temporarily disabling of text chat in-game, the lack of a GTA 6 trailer (sigh...) and the ongoing problems with account migration, which, by the way, Rockstar is working hard to resolve at the moment.

With a retail price of $30, GTA V Enhanced is a bargain, especially considering that it's currently being sold for half its usual price through March 20. While some of the criticisms are warranted, it is odd that gamers continue to nitpick the slight issues with Rockstar and their decision to re-release a new Grand Theft Auto V Edition over ten years into the game's launch. Every re-release has had legitimate reasoning behind it.

Grand Theft Auto V: Enhanced Edition was meant to support the eighth generation of consoles and Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced allowed gamers on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to continue enjoying Grand Theft Auto Online while giving PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X owners a glimpse of what future Rockstar titles could look like.

If it were simply about finances, Rockstar would've ported GTA 5 over to the Nintendo Switch already, with Red Dead Redemption 2 getting a next-gen patch years ago, but they didn't do that. Rockstar didn't have to release GTA V Enhanced, but they did, and it's been nothing but awesome. It showcases Los Santos at its best without alienating players on older machines by continuing to support them by forking the game with a fifth edition in Grand Theft Auto V Legacy.

Could the release have been better? Definitely, but Rockstar is working on the fixes, with a third patch already out in as many days. Given that the developers are all hands on deck on GTA 6 at the moment, it's amazing that they still managed to spare some time to work on re-releasing GTA V for basically for free all the while releasing a new update for GTA Online.

To be fair, the negative sentiment surrounding GTA V Enhanced seems exclusive to Steam. Elsewhere, players who have successfully migrated their accounts to the free update have nothing but praise. It isn't like with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, which took a couple of years, some controversy and a studio change that later led to an acquisition, to recover. If all this discourse has you interested in checking out GTA V Enhanced, we have a guide to help you get the update for free.

As for GTA 6, we still have no idea when it's coming out, but Rockstar India is hiring for game testers for April and Take-Two has confirmed that it will increase its marketing spend by then. If we put two and two together, it's possible we might get a new trailer by then for a game that, according to the nth analyst, may cost over $100 at launch.