{"id":109388,"date":"2020-02-19T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/358422"},"modified":"2020-02-19T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:36:00","slug":"gta-iv-to-return-to-steam-after-cutting-games-for-windows-live-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/19\/gta-iv-to-return-to-steam-after-cutting-games-for-windows-live-support\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA IV to return to Steam after cutting Games for Windows Live support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/em>\u2019s exodus from Steam wasn\u2019t a permanent one; the decade-old game is <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/901583\/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_Complete_Edition\/\">headed back to the platform<\/a>, but must sacrifice its multiplayer to do so.<\/p>\n<p><em>GTA IV<\/em> was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356599\/Rockstar_says_defunct_Games_for_Windows_Live_to_blame_for_GTA_IV_delisting.php\">pulled from sale on Steam last month<\/a> after developer Rockstar Games made it known that it could no longer generate keys to &nbsp;sell new copies of the game due to its reliance on the now-defunct Games for Windows Live service.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to pull the game from Steam prompted assumptions that it might instead show up on Rockstar\u2019s own launch, but instead the studio has announced that <em>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/em> will once again land on Steam next month.<\/p>\n<p>That March 19 relaunch is billed as <em>Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition<\/em> and includes the <em>Episodes from Liberty City <\/em>DLC but won\u2019t offer online multiplayer (or one of the radio stations found in the original).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto IV\u2019s exodus from Steam wasn\u2019t a permanent one; the decade-old game is headed back to the platform, but must sacrifice its multiplayer to do so. GTA IV was&nbsp;pulled from sale on Steam last month after developer Rockstar Games made it known that it could no longer generate keys to &nbsp;sell new copies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}