GTA5 Steam Reviews “Overwhelmingly Negative” as 40k Sign OpenIV petition

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Grand Theft Auto has long been a series that allowed users to express their creativity in the form of mods for the series’s single-player mode. Recently, the author of the popular modding tool OpenIV received a cease and desist letter from publisher Take-Two Interactive. The creators of other modding tools, such as “Menyoo” and “Force Hax,” have received similar letters, however these modding tools were being used specifically to influence Grand Theft Auto V‘s multiplayer mode. In response to the modding purge, fans of OpenIV have taken to Steam, Google, and Change.org to voice their frustration.

On Thursday, the OpenIV lead developer took to gtaforums.com to announce that OpenIV would be complying with the cease and desist letter from Take-Two Interactive:

“Going to court will take at least few months of our time and huge amount of efforts, and, at best, we’ll get absolutely nothing.
Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can’t compensate the loss of time.”


And while it seems that OpenIV modders encouraged the team to fight, and may have been lumped into the sum of modding tools that alter the game’s code, the team behind OpenIV recognized the futility in entering a legal battle with the publishing titan:

“So, we decided to agree with their claims and we’re stopping distribution of OpenIV.”

“It was a hard decision, but when any modding activity has been declared illegal, we can’t see any possibilities to continue this process, unless top management of Take-Two company makes an official statement about modding, which can be used in court.”




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k3rryPosted:

Man that really sucks for OpenIV and the modding world, it really seems as if they are taking modding very seriously, not a good thing I want to hear, I feel the console should be allowed to play however anyone wants to play even if that means hackers getting into games with legit players, however it's hard to justify since they want to play legit too.

RwxzPosted:

Take Two isnt just taking down OpenIv, they are also taking down some of the private mod menus out there. If you go to some of the websites to those menus they have this message on it.

http://imgur.com/a/usMfp

HuxPosted:

Rui It's funny, openIV has nothing to do with gta 5 online... modders create their mod menu's out of the files and use an injectable .Dll that does it out of openiv.

Their cryingover singleplayer...


That's true. For some reason they believe it's eventually going to affect multiplayer, which is daft.

RuiPosted:

It's funny, openIV has nothing to do with gta 5 online... modders create their mod menu's out of the files and use an injectable .Dll that does it out of openiv.

Their cryingover singleplayer...

Glock-Posted:

This is absolutely stupid, modding singleplayer hurts no one. I hope they realize this and decide to go back on their decision.

SakonPosted:

It amazes me that they'd deal with single player mods, rather then multiplayer ones.

SR20DETPosted:

Maj I dont see the big issue with Single player mods. It doesn't effect anyone else, so why don't R* Just leave them be


I wasn't R* it's Take 2, but yeah singleplayer should have been left alone but are basically getting blamed for online modding... Yet people online with modded accounts are kinda being left alone, I was expecting people with modded accounts to have their money wiped but I guess not.

MajPosted:

I dont see the big issue with Single player mods. It doesn't effect anyone else, so why don't R* Just leave them be


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