Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Rockstar North · Rockstar Games
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Year 1
Mar 24, 2020 - Mar 24, 2021
8 changes
Rockstar consolidated Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City into a single Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition SKU and pushed it as a forced upgrade to existing owners. The migration stripped out online multiplayer, leaderboards, and Games for Windows Live, and pulled three licensed radio stations from the lineup.
- SKU consolidation: Complete Edition replaced both Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City wherever they were digitally sold, and was added to the Rockstar Games Launcher.
- Cuts in the migration: Online multiplayer and in-game leaderboards were removed entirely. Games for Windows Live was retired, and owners whose copies had been activated through GFWL had to create or link a Rockstar Social Club account to update.
- Radio holes: RamJam FM, Self-Actualization FM, and Vice City FM — the three stations introduced in Episodes from Liberty City — were pulled from the lineup, flagged as temporarily unavailable while music licenses were sorted out.
- Migration mechanics: Existing save files carried over to Complete Edition unchanged. On Steam the patch ran roughly 22 GB for Episodes owners and 6 GB for GTA IV owners, and Steam Achievements were disabled until the new SKU went live.