To solve the problem, Rockstar has now decided it will replace all versions of Grand Theft Auto 4 and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City with Grand Theft Auto 4: Complete Edition "wherever it is currently digitally available", including Steam and the Rockstar Games Launcher. As a result of the problems with Games for Windows Live, multiplayer mode and leaderboards will no longer be available in Grand Theft Auto 4: Complete Edition. Sounds a bit incomplete to me, really, but here we are.
Rockstar now say on the Steam page that Grand Theft Auto IV will again be available to buy from March 19th. At that point, the original game and its standalone expansions, Episodes From Liberty City, will only be available in the one Complete Edition. GTA IV on Steam will be upgraded to the Complete Edition and download the EFLC content. EFLC, on the other hand, will be outright removed from owners' Steam libraries and replaced with the Complete Edition so they'll need to download the lot. But basically it seems that if you own either, congrats, you'll come to own both. There will be other changes.
GTA IV No Longer Available for Purchase Through Steam, Here Is Why
Grand Theft Auto IV has been pulled from Steam, making it no longer possible for users of the digital game distribution service to purchase it. The move was unexpected due to the lack of warning from Rockstar, the developer of the more than ten-year-old title.
Grand Theft Auto 4's Steam page (opens in new tab) no longer lets you buy the game, though there's no explanation why. GTA Vice City did vanish from the marketplace briefly back in 2012 due to a copyright claim over its inclusion of the song Wanna Be Startin' Something by Michael Jackson, but Rockstar have been more on the ball with licencing issues since then. As recently as 2018, GTA 4 was patched (opens in new tab) to replace several songs from Vladivostok FM in advance of their licences expiring.
If for any reason you've delayed buying Grand Theft Auto IV on Steam, you may have missed the opportunity to get the game there for good. Since yesterday, for unknown reasons, GTA IV is not available in the store. This is puzzling because the game's card (in both standard and complete editions) is still visible on the website, but with the purchase option turned off. To make things even more interesting, this does not apply to the DLC titled Episodes from Liberty City, which is still on sale. Twitter user Pixelbuster reported the whole case.
Rockstar has not officially referred to this situation, so there has been a lot of speculation on the web about why you can no longer buy GTA IV on Steam. One of the theories is that the licence for music from the virtual radio stations has expired. Fortunately, if you have the title in the library, you can still download it. If not... Well, I guess you're out of luck (at least until the matter is clarified and the purchase option returns). It's worth noting that GTA IV is still available from Xbox and PlayStation stores, as well as the Humble Store.
Since the beginning of the year, GTA 4 has not been available for purchase on Steam because of the fact that its developer no longer has keys for the Games for Windows Live. And, since the service is now no longer active, Microsoft has disapproved of providing the same service any more that has led to the current situation. However, as earlier mentioned, the game is not totally gone, and it is even returning, only with a single-player portion that the gaming enthusiasts can already start playing from Mar. 19.
Aside from the multiplayer mode, according to Rockstar, this new GT4 A version will no longer include the Games for Windows live functionality and the leaderboards, as well anymore. Unfortunately, toys are not the only missing stuff here as the developer will also be taking out the RamJam FM, the Vice City FM, and Self-Actualization FM radio stations. Meanwhile, gaming enthusiasts who have already installed and played GTA 4 or the GTA: Episodes from Liberty City in the past will still be able to have their copy updated to GTA 4: Complete Edition. This was confirmed by Rockstar on the said game's store page.
I personally do not like to purchase games digitally. There's just something magical about going to the store, picking up a boxed game, staring at the amazing box art, bringing the game home and putting the disc in the drive.
Starting 03/19/2020, Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition will replace both Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City wherever it is currently digitally available. Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition will as also be available via the Rockstar Games Launcher. Current game save files will be compatible with Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition. As a result of this update the following services will no longer be available in Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition:
GTA 4 has been available to purchase for Steam since removing the Games for Windows Live requirement. The complete edition of the game is available to purchase offering the extra DLC content in addition to the full main game. Rockstar had updated the game on PC in recent times to remove licensed songs whose deal was reportedly getting expired.
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And yet this feels bigger in its own way, because while multiplayer games are dependent on the enduring interest of other players, with publishers pulling the game once they see that it's 'dead', single-player games don't 'die' in the same way. When we purchase a single-player game, we expect it to be available for us to return to whenever we please - whether that's an annual playthrough or a nostalgic trip down memory lane in 10 years time. Ubisoft taking away games that people have bought with no explanation or remuneration is something that we'd expect from a subscription service like Game Pass, where an endemic part of the service is that games will come and go. What they've done here undermines the very idea of 'buying' or 'purchasing' products, which you ostensibly do through Ubisoft Connect, Steam, and other platforms.
Another question is whether Valve, or more specifically its Steam gaming platform, has any responsibility to those who bought the games in question through it. Clearly, this is Ubisoft's cock-up, but as the de facto gaming platform for PC gamers, which people are loyal to Valve because it offers a depth of features, robustness and communities that elevate it well above rudimentary rivals like GOG or the Epic Games Store. Should Valve be stepping in to defend those who use its platform believing it to be a place where their games library is safe for posterity?
There's a good chance that many people who bought Assassin's Creed Liberation HD or Silent Hunter 5 through Steam aren't even aware that that game is dependent on DRM outside of Steam (despite the smallprint on the store page), that Steam in that context is pretty much a launcher for just another launcher. Put that way, it does sound kind of ridiculous, doesn't it? You can see how less informed people, or perhaps more casual gamers, could get confused.
The game does not start if the output of the command "ip -s link" is longer than 4096 characters. That is because, in the function bitsquid::network_info(char*), where they query the networking information, they do not handle that case correctly.See this picture for reference.It was reported to upstream (Pieces Interactive) but Magicka 2 does not seem to be maintained anymore.
You can do this by opening the game's properties through steam, and under "general" tick the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play comparability tool", and then select a proton version from the dropdown below
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