Boss of developer behind GTA Trilogy's original poorly-received launch laments being removed from game's credits, even though he wasn't

The boss of GTA Trilogy developer Grove Street Games has spoken out on social media to blast the removal of "primary developers from credits" following the game's major update this week for PC and consoles.

Tuesday'sGTA Trilogy patch finally brought over fixesfrom the games'better-received mobile version(worked on by another studio, Video Games Deluxe) such as a Classic Lighting mode which restores the look of the games' original versions, plus improvements to character models and other visual tweaks.

The update also aligned the GTA Trilogy's opening splash screen to that of the mobile version, with Rockstar simply mentioned as GTA's developer.

It's this change which Grove Street Games' Thomas Williamson appears to be reacting to now on social media.

"Speaking entire hypothetically," Williamsonwroteon X, "it's a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players' hands for years."

As pointed out by fans of the GTA Trilogy, however, the games' credits have not changed and Grove Street Games and its staff are still listed as before.

Speaking entire hypothetically: It's a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players' hands for years.

PSA: Rumours being circulated by the community and even some news websites about Grove Street Games (GSG) having been removed from the#GTATrilogyentirely are unfounded.Both GSG and Video Games Deluxe are in the final credits, only the initial splash screen was removed.pic.twitter.com/MUkvgi2uZX

Ensuringstaff who work on games receive proper accreditation has long been a thorny issue, withRockstar itself in the past heavily criticised for leaving staff members outof credits. Here, however, Williamson's comments - hypothetical as they are - appear to be based on misleading media reports that suggested Grove Street Games was no longer credited at all.

Williamson previously made headlines when GTA Trilogy first arrived, riddled with bugs, performance issues andcode for the illicit Hot Coffee sex mini-game, to comment on theenormous wave of backlashagainst the game.

"It's so fun to see players out there really enjoying what we've put together for them," Williamsonwroteat the time, asRockstar itself apologised,offered a free game to PC owners, andpulled GTA Trilogy offline for days. "I'm honestly enjoying this unparalleled level of scrutiny on our studio. Today we are celebrating our monumental project launch, while we work on updates. :-)"