Rockstar Games isn't having the best time with the release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition. Ever since the game launched, it's been lambasted for bugs, performance issues and shortcomings that make the "remasters" worse than the originals — but things were at their lowest on PC. Both the game and the Rockstar Games Launcher became unavailable, and now that they're back we know why.
According to an official Rockstar statement, The Definitive Edition was "unavailable to play or purchase as we remove files unintentionally included in these versions". However, since the Rockstar Games Launcher was also down during this period — over a day — all the other titles from the developer were affected on PC.
Rockstar only gave any official acknowledgement of the issue about 24 hours after the start of the "maintenance", which was what the downtime was called before the statement. In the meantime however, dataminers uncovered the probable causes of the whole controversy.
Apparently, the initially released version of GTA: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition on PC included a bunch of files and code that it shouldn't have. Not only were the files for songs with expired licenses included, but so were the files of the original "Hot Coffee" minigame which was disabled but discovered, resulting in a huge scandal back when San Andreas first launched.
Additionally, the code itself still retained developer comments. Most of these were innocuous or humorous in nature, but some of they painted both Grove Street Games and Rockstar Games in a poor light. Coders working on the remasters would refer to original code with expletives or make other unsavory jokes and comments.
