Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas may have come out a decade ago on PC, but it seems the time was right for it receive an update on Steam. I say update but it’s basically a downgrade, stripping it of many of its higher-resolution options and removing a bunch of the game’s songs. Oh, and your old game save won’t work with the new version either, so you’d best get going again if you want to unlock everything.

The update has seen 17 songs removed from the radio-heavy open-world title from Rockstar, and the only silver lining to this cloud is the addition of native support for the Xbox 360 controller. Which we guess is a silver lining. Just.

Rockstar's crime-em-up masterpiece, GTA: San Andreas is no longer playable in 1080p.

It seems a strange thing to do, but it looks to be tying in with the Xbox 360 re-release a few weeks ago. We originally anticipated this to be a 10th anniversary remaster, but it was in fact updating it to be a port of the mobile version of GTA: San Andreas. It looks like the same deal has happened on PC, with 17 tracks removed from both the mobile version and the PC edition.

Perhaps most unusual is the removal of resolution options, including the ever-popular 1080p resolution, suggesting Rockstar is intent on bringing the PC version into line with the mobile release.

How do you feel about Rockstar retroactively altering a game for the worse that you may own on Steam? Does it make you feel slightly hesitant about digital distribution?