Take Two shuts down paid GTA Online cheating mods, profits donated to charity

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Last week, Take Two sent a cease and desist letter to OpenIV creator GooD-NTS, shutting down the suite that underpins a ton of the GTA 5 single-player mods

Understandably, the community wasn’t thrilled, particularly as Rockstar has promoted OpenIV mods in the past.

Rockstar defended the decision, saying OpenIV enabled “malicious mods” in GTA Online.

And now, Take Two has closed down additional mods that were used to cheat and grief online.

PC Gamer reports that Force Hax – a supposedly undetected mod menu for PC that ‘Bypasses Latest Rockstar Anti-Cheat2’ – Menyoo, and Lexicon were contacted by Take Two and have since shut down their paid mods, and will be donating their proceeds to charity.

The Force Hax site now displays a message reading, “After discussions with Take-Two Interactive, effective immediately we are ceasing all maintenance, development and distribution of the Force Hax cheat menu services. We will be donating our proceeds to charity and we apologize for any and all problems Force Hax services have cause to the Grand Theft Auto Online community.”

Lexicon and Menyoo display similar messages, but mention that the charity is to be designated by Take Two.

As much as the community didn’t take the news of OpenIV being shut down well, I doubt many will miss tools like these that exist to annoy the heck out of players that don’t cheat.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2017/06/19/take-two-shuts-down-paid-gta-online-cheating-mods-profits-from-the-tools-to-be-donated-to-charity/

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JZXPosted:

Lol mods aren't dead just download the fivem modded framework and you can use mods online with friends.

TOXICPosted:

Mods are so dead now days anyway, not at all surprised, it was fun while it lasted.

ForcedNameChangePosted:

RIP the funny and ccol GTA SP mods. :(

codsturePosted:

It's sad to see this happen but, I went online yesterday on PC which, unfortunately, is full of hackers.

322Posted:

this is a very important time for all gamers. The actions by take two will set a standard that is likely to be followed by other companies. Now they won't catch as much flak as take two. Banning mods and banning users who use mods is one thing. Its another to shut down websites and force them to "donate" their earnings to a charity less they face legal action is a whole other ball game. I don't think people should be using cheats in multiplayer but I also don't believe the creators should be facing any sort of legal action. This is a slippery slope.

ArkaniPosted:

Them blocking single player mods is a bad move imo. It's single-player your suppose to go around and have a bunch of fun playing with all these mods it doesn't hurt online at all. Sad to see it come to this, I'm surprised.

FamousPosted:

This isn't nothing compared to what is about to come.

ZydrinPosted:

Well shit, this is huge news.

RareparrotPosted:

WELP RIP MODDING THE FUTURE

JastyPosted:

The charity part i'll gladly be happy about, and the gta online stuff I understand still a shame about openiv.


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