GTA 5 Mod Tool Program Shuts Down After Legal Letter, Rockstar Responds

The first mistake they did was combining the single player experience with the online experience.

The second is destroying the single player experience over some security compromise in the online community by taking actions that doesn't even do much against online hacking because well....OpenIV (although has some security "exploits") does not target nor compromise the online experience as much as other hacking tools would. OpenIV itself would not work online unless its disabled. Rockstar's security already detects this. Again, OpenIV has scripts no doubt, but scripts targeting what?

Take Two officially murdered a parent because of a child's misbehavior. Online terrorism at best. OpenIV isn't even a "mod mod hacking mod" per se, it's a tool that manages and sorts mods. You can have a lot of knowledge, a lot of authority, a lot of success, and yet lack wisdom. This is one such case. Sure, OpenIV allows game files to be modified, but again, GTA5 already detects this and repatches the game, ANNOYINGLY.

Third mistake, they don't learn from mistakes. Rather than improving security, and improving single player accessibility, they decide to pick up the gun because well, its most hassle-free thing to do. Laziness. So Rockstar and T2 don't need to bother making any official statements on their claims on caring about the modding community when all they've done with every update, is destroy it.

Until their actions prove otherwise, their statements are useless.

Why not have the Online component run as a completely separate program? That way, T2 can legally allow OpenIV for the Single Player offline game, and the online version will be insulated.

Let's be honest and recall the past...

This would most certainly NOT be the first time that the <company/companies> responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise has outright and bald-faced lied about a portion of the modding community "deliberately" trying to ruin their product.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/confirmed-sex-minigame-in-ps2-san-andreas/1100-6129301/

Why are they trying to poke the hornets' nest all over again?

How in Sam hilly f**k does one thinks that solving hackers and cheaters is by taking down program that had nothing to do with it? It's like Jim Sterling said: There is a zombie apocalypse, and Take-Two's solution is to shoot those that are not bitten and are just minding their own business. OpenIV modding is for single player modding ONLY. Anyone who uses it on MP will be banned. Almost every PC GTAV player knows that and respects it. Hell, you won't even see most of them going MP due to it being riddle with microtransactions and a shitty progression system. This is so TT (who recently said they haven't made enough on Microtransactions) can pressure PC players to go online and pay for the DLC. Which is goddamn stupid of them.

Developer of OpenIV responded to statement here: http://gtaforums.com/topic/...

Essentially, you cant go online with OpenIV, its utter rubbish.
If there was a way to go online, and they just asked OpenIV devs to patch it, I'm sure they would

Why are people raging at Rockstar? It's Take-Two that's shutting down mods.

i don't know about this mod, i don't know much about GTA 5 mods, the only thing I know is they are the reason why I don't play GTA Online, which btw I really like. Everytime I log in, some angry loser at some point probably dies or something, and start teleporting players randomly everywhere, removing their weapons and doing a bunch of stupid shit that hackers do. As I said, I don't know if this is the mod, but there is a mod problem in GTA Online.

It's a single player mod , Take Two are Tools.

My opinion on this is that I don't know enough about this topic to have a valid opinion.

Except this tool was made specifically to not be able to mess with any of the online play at all. All the cheating done online is using programs designed just for that purpose, to fly under the radar so they can't be detected. This is nothing more than a studio not wanting to one upped by modders who are creating quality content for the single player that was promised by R* before the game even launched and still haven't seen a thing. Its petty.

Good riddance.

Good. To hell with all the cheaters whom were exploiting the "mod tools" to get free money, aimbot, and cause disruption to online play. Seeya! Get wrekt, scumbags! They should all get IP perma-bans also, for any and all Rockstar games past, present, and future.

Still not playing your money milking GTAO and never buying a fecking sharkcard.

And if R*hit wants to ban mods in RDR2 but forcuses on online micro transactions more than single player content then feck that game as well.

There's your favorite R*, naked before your eyes.

Can we put obsession aside and start criticizing R*?

Another issue also caused by GTAO's automatic cheat detectors are the abrupt and unjustified bans on players due to 3rd party software running after launching the game, e.g. streaming software & even a browser (yes, a browser).

R* may not be putting these policies forward, but, they sure don't criticize it, and as you see here, even support it.

An outrage from players and criticism could force the parent company to re-evaluate their policies. Please, put your convictions aside and think critically, please.

If the modding tool negatively affects the online aspect of the game, then I can understand them wanting to shut it down.

Rockstar games did right thing . If this keep happening rock star games won't put games on pc agian . Becausen don't like mods because this has happen .

To be honest, I dont care much about GTA online. I play the game mostly in Singleplayer mode and the more I play the game with new miss the more I enjoy the game. That was the reason I bought GTA on pc after trying ps4 one. I understand no one wants their creation to be modified for their own reason. It's just sad to see a future of GTA without mods, especially when Rockstars dont care much about GTA singleplayer.

I always told that RS are a$$holes for PC gamers

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I guess i can understand banning online modding, but why ban singleplayer mods, doesn't the user own his copy of the game?! this is fuking stupid dood!

Modding has been a huge problem lately. I have been teleported under the ocean, and had objects including a campfire, NPCs, and explosions spawn on and around my character. Sometimes my character gets locked in an animation. Many of these require me to change lobbies; Some require me to restart the game. It's sad that people do these kinds of things and ruin the experience of others. I think they're a big reason why Rockstar is coming down hard on 3rd party programs like this.