Late last week, Grand Theft Auto 4 was delisted from Steam, closing off one of the few remaining ways to purchase a new digital copy of the game. Last week, Twitter user Nittomata noticed that Steam had stopped listing the option to buy Grand Theft Auto 4, but still allows people to purchase the standalone expansion bundle Episodes from Liberty City. In a statement to USgamer, a Rockstar Games spokesperson explains that the removal stemmed from being unable to generate additional keys for Grand Theft Auto 4. Rockstar Launcher starts and show Connecting to Rockstar Games Services.

'Grand Theft Auto 4 was originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform,' reads the statement.

It hangs there for three, four minutes and then this message pops: Game launch. We are looking at other options for distributing GTA4 for PC and will share more information as soon as we can.' 'With Microsoft no longer supporting Games For Windows Live, it is no longer possible to generate the additional keys needed to continue selling the current version of the game. Rockstar has had to fiddle with Grand Theft Auto 4's digital release before. In 2018, as the tenth anniversary of GTA 4's release approached, Rockstar had to push an update to the game that removed over 50 songs from the in-game radio playlists thanks to expiring music licenses, including a few tracks added in Episodes from Liberty City. The patch also added in some new songs, but only to the Russian and Ukranian radio station Vladivostok FM.

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