Can't play multiplayer

[Vulpes Ventura]

My phone has no option for multiplayer & the menu screen has no option either.
What to do bros?

[diegoquest757]

the feature to play multiplayer was removed on march 19th the only way to bring it back is by downgrading your game. there are steam guides that will help you bring it back.

[Vulpes Ventura]

Thanks for the info. I'm just really confused beacuse why would they remove that feature?

[Frodo Swaggins]

Originally posted by All Glory to God Our Lord:

Thanks for the info. I'm just really confused beacuse why would they remove that feature?

gfwl stopped generating keys for the game, since microsoft stopped supporting gfwl, rockstar decided to gut gfwl, doing away with multiplayer in the process

you can still play multiplayer, you just gotta downgrade first

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by poggers:

Originally posted by All Glory to God Our Lord:

Thanks for the info. I'm just really confused beacuse why would they remove that feature?

gfwl stopped generating keys for the game, since microsoft stopped supporting gfwl, rockstar decided to gut gfwl, doing away with multiplayer in the process

you can still play multiplayer, you just gotta downgrade first

How so? GTA IV uses Rockstar Launcher, not Games for Windows Live.

I also tried playing Resident Evil 5, which uses GFWL, and the freaking game didn't even start and I had to ask a refund.

[Frodo Swaggins]

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

Originally posted by poggers:

gfwl stopped generating keys for the game, since microsoft stopped supporting gfwl, rockstar decided to gut gfwl, doing away with multiplayer in the process

you can still play multiplayer, you just gotta downgrade first

How so? GTA IV uses Rockstar Launcher, not Games for Windows Live.

I also tried playing Resident Evil 5, which uses GFWL, and the freaking game didn't even start and I had to ask a refund.

gta 4 used to use gfwl before it was re-released as the complete edition back in march, reason being was that the game couldnt be sold anymore due to a shortage of keys, and because gfwl has depreciated to the point that even ms isnt developing it anymore, rockstar combined the base game and eflc into one package like the one from consoles and moved it to rgl

in addition to multiplayer, downgrading also gives you a whole lot more options for modding, its a very quick process, heres a video on how to do it, this is the manual way to do it but id suggest using the bat file to do everything for you

https://youtu.be/4AyFKKu1L_Y

[B Dawg]

Cohkstar was too lazy to port Multiplayer to Social Club despite nearly finishing the porting process.

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by poggers:

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

How so? GTA IV uses Rockstar Launcher, not Games for Windows Live.

I also tried playing Resident Evil 5, which uses GFWL, and the freaking game didn't even start and I had to ask a refund.

gta 4 used to use gfwl before it was re-released as the complete edition back in march, reason being was that the game couldnt be sold anymore due to a shortage of keys, and because gfwl has depreciated to the point that even ms isnt developing it anymore, rockstar combined the base game and eflc into one package like the one from consoles and moved it to rgl

in addition to multiplayer, downgrading also gives you a whole lot more options for modding, its a very quick process, heres a video on how to do it, this is the manual way to do it but id suggest using the bat file to do everything for you

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. If the whole reason was the MS support and keys, after they migrated it to Rockstar Launcher they and then kept on selling it, they might as well have turned the multiplayer back online.

[B Dawg]

Huge threat? Not really. If they were really worried about that, they'd shut down Max Payne 3 Multiplayer too. They were just lazy.

[Frodo Swaggins]

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

Originally posted by poggers:

gta 4 used to use gfwl before it was re-released as the complete edition back in march, reason being was that the game couldnt be sold anymore due to a shortage of keys, and because gfwl has depreciated to the point that even ms isnt developing it anymore, rockstar combined the base game and eflc into one package like the one from consoles and moved it to rgl

in addition to multiplayer, downgrading also gives you a whole lot more options for modding, its a very quick process, heres a video on how to do it, this is the manual way to do it but id suggest using the bat file to do everything for you

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. If the whole reason was the MS support and keys, after they migrated it to Rockstar Launcher they and then kept on selling it, they might as well have turned the multiplayer back online.

gta 4's multiplayer infrastructure was built with gfwl in mind, now could they have just replaced it with their own dedicated servers in place of gfwl? probably, but they didnt, probably because they wanted to fix the issue asap so the game could get back to being sold, it wouldve taken longer for them to have implemented an alternative to gfwl, especially during covid where a lot of people are working from home

then theres also the issue of devs deleting the code after a certain amount of time, its a common thing to see to see in the gaming industry, developers not archiving their code but instead deleting it so they wont have to continue supporting it like a decade later

[B Dawg]

Originally posted by poggers:

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. If the whole reason was the MS support and keys, after they migrated it to Rockstar Launcher they and then kept on selling it, they might as well have turned the multiplayer back online.

gta 4's multiplayer infrastructure was built with gfwl in mind, now could they have just replaced it with their own dedicated servers in place of gfwl? probably, but they didnt, probably because they wanted to fix the issue asap so the game could get back to being sold, it wouldve taken longer for them to have implemented an alternative to gfwl, especially during covid where a lot of people are working from home

then theres also the issue of devs deleting the code after a certain amount of time, its a common thing to see to see in the gaming industry, developers not archiving their code but instead deleting it so they wont have to continue supporting it like a decade later

The thing is, they already did 99% of the work of porting the multiplayer code over according to the FiveM dev.

[Frodo Swaggins]

Originally posted by B Dawg:

Originally posted by poggers:

gta 4's multiplayer infrastructure was built with gfwl in mind, now could they have just replaced it with their own dedicated servers in place of gfwl? probably, but they didnt, probably because they wanted to fix the issue asap so the game could get back to being sold, it wouldve taken longer for them to have implemented an alternative to gfwl, especially during covid where a lot of people are working from home

then theres also the issue of devs deleting the code after a certain amount of time, its a common thing to see to see in the gaming industry, developers not archiving their code but instead deleting it so they wont have to continue supporting it like a decade later

The thing is, they already did 99% of the work of porting the multiplayer code over according to the FiveM dev.

ah so its just rockstar being lazy then, very sad

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by puremoon:

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. If the whole reason was the MS support and keys, after they migrated it to Rockstar Launcher they and then kept on selling it, they might as well have turned the multiplayer back online.

GTA IV: Multiplayer is a huge threat to GTA:O in R* 's eyes as that small playerbase which would be playing GTA IV wouldn't actually be playing GTA V and could potentially buy shark cards.

The length they're going to limit the players to squeeze every penny from them is unbelievable.

That's exactly what I think they are doing. In fact, that's what everybody does nowadays. They suffocate their old products so people buy the new ones. I myself just don't buy into that crap. I keep on play GTA IV. I even bought GTA: Chinatown Wars and I have GTA 2 on my PC. I just wish I could buy GTA 2 on Steam. But... GTA 5? Nah huh... F that!!

[Fegelein!!!!]

Why we dont try to make a petition to bring back gta 4 online? Gamespy was shut down in 2014 and ps3 gta 4 online was made for them and they changed to anoter server, so its not hard for them to make this conversion.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by puremoon:

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question. If the whole reason was the MS support and keys, after they migrated it to Rockstar Launcher they and then kept on selling it, they might as well have turned the multiplayer back online.

GTA IV: Multiplayer is a huge threat to GTA:O in R* 's eyes as that small playerbase which would be playing GTA IV wouldn't actually be playing GTA V and could potentially buy shark cards.

The length they're going to limit the players to squeeze every penny from them is unbelievable.

Or they stopped supporting their archaic game's archaic features 12 years after release.

Or maybe your conspiracy theory is right and Occam's Razor bedamned.

Originally posted by Ceceli ♠:

But... GTA 5? Nah huh... F that!!

GTA5 is easily the best GTA ever and I've played them all. The production values are through the roof, the world is massive, the characters are deep.

Plus, GTAO is a fully functioning MMO that comes free with GTAV.

Your complaints are rooted in nonsense. "Suffocate old products." Just like every car dealer suffocates the sales of last year's models? Phasing out old products and constant competition of new products is how the economy works. How's your 720p TV from 2006 doing these days? Mine is in storage because it doesn't fit in the garbage bin and I'm too lazy to take it to the dump.

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Originally posted by puremoon:

GTA IV: Multiplayer is a huge threat to GTA:O in R* 's eyes as that small playerbase which would be playing GTA IV wouldn't actually be playing GTA V and could potentially buy shark cards.

The length they're going to limit the players to squeeze every penny from them is unbelievable.

Or they stopped supporting their archaic game's archaic features 12 years after release.

Or maybe your conspiracy theory is right and Occam's Razor bedamned.

Sounds like we have a GTA5 fanboy over here lul