Rockstar has stopped selling full games directly in Brazil through the Rockstar Games Store and Rockstar Games Launcher after the Digital ECA law took effect. Brazilian players can still buy Rockstar titles digitally through Steam, PlayStation Store, Xbox or Microsoft Store, and Epic Games Store. Shark Cards for GTA Online and Gold Bars for Red Dead Online also remain on sale through Rockstar’s own storefront, and there is no return date yet for direct game sales.
Brazil recently passed a major piece of legislation called the Digital Statute of the Child and Adolescent, commonly referred to as the Digital ECA. The law is a broad overhaul of how digital companies are allowed to operate in relation to minors in the country. It bans companies from using children's data for ad profiling, places strict age restrictions on products with loot boxes (limiting them to players 18 and over), and generally creates a tougher framework around selling and marketing digital products where minors could be involved.
The law, formally known as Law No. 15,211/2025, came into effect on March 16, 2026. Complying with it requires companies to rethink how they collect data, verify ages, structure their storefronts, and handle in-game purchases, all at once. Rockstar Games, like many other game companies, was working against a hard deadline, and for reasons they haven't publicly detailed, they weren't able to get everything in place in time. Rather than risk being in violation of Brazilian law, they made the call to suspend direct game sales in the country through the Rockstar Games Store and Rockstar Games Launcher.
