Last month, we informed you about a Red Dead Redemption PC Remaster project that DamnedDev has been working on. This project was basically a mod for the PS3 and X360 versions of Red Dead Redemption. Basically, think of it as all the texture packs we’ve been getting for the Nintendo Wii/WiiU games. However, it appears that Take-Two is currently trying to shut this project down.
Take-Two got in touch with the modder and demanded him to stop his work. As such, the modder decided to completely halt the development of this project, and promised to provide a video update at a later date.
Red Dead Redemption: Enhancement Project was aiming to improve the game’s visuals via the RPCS3 and Xenia emulators. This project would bring higher quality textures, UI/UX menu elements, and in-game HUD. Moreover, there were plans for draw distance optimizations, shader and model updates, and other features.
DamnedDev claimed that he is currently working with someone on the legality of the mod. Unfortunately, though, Take-Two can do whatever it wants with its franchise. Yes, this is a Texture/Graphics Pack for the original games, and should not be receiving any red flags. After all, there are already a lot of mods for various console games that rely on emulators. However, the fact that PC gamers may be able to play a game – which was never intended to run on their platform – is reason enough for a big corporation to shut it down.
Let’s not forget when Aspyr Atlus issued a copyright claim to the creators of the RPCS3 emulator for allowing PC gamers to play Persona 5. Thankfully, this copyright claim did not affect the development of the Playstation 3 emulator. As such, the development of this Red Dead Redemption project may soon resume too!
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F*ck them
f*ck you!
lol, just release the game then and people wouldn’t have to jump through those hoops. GTAV made a killing on PC.
ofc saw this coming take two sent goon squad just because info is being leaked this is inevitable. ironic how this company turned out to be one of those iron fisted corporate R* throws satires at in their games.
>Let’s not forget when Aspyr issued a copyright claim to the creators of the RPCS3 emulator for allowing PC gamers to play Persona 5.
Are you sure that’s Aspyr, not Atlus?
Thats why you dont brag about sensitive projects, until you finish them!
unless you want a job
“Take-Two attempts to shut down the “Red Dead Redemption PC Remaster” project”
yeah like no one saw this coming a mile away
I told ya this will happen and you said i was wrong.
I never liked take-two or rockstar they always sh#tted on pc gaming community. I m honestly ok if none of their games releases on pc they can go fk themselves.
yeah I’ve always assumed their lack of support for the PC was based on the fact that it was the only place they could be pirated and Take Two is waay to greedy to entertain that. So they’d rather not sell on PC than think about losing potential sales.
Even though the vast majority of Pirates are from poor third world Countries… Those so called “lost sales” were never going to be sales in the first place.
Everyone keeps ignoring this fact, that pirates are third and second world.
greed
That really ain’t bs though. Most pirates are 2nd and 3rd world. Everybody that I know, including me, have not pirated in years because games on PC are so cheap because of frequent sales.
It doesn’t god damned matter….Jesus Christ im so tired of people trying to justify stealing with that stupid excuse of hurrr those lost sales were never going to be sales…You don’t get access to something just because you want it, if you weren’t going to buy it then you have no business playing it…..NO the majority of thieves are not just 2nd and 3rd world countries, alot of them are self-entitled 1st world sh*t stains with dead end jobs that feel that because they want it, they deserve it even though they don’t have the money to purchase it…
Well it’s true… We are talking about very poor people here, if they didn’t pirate the game then they were never going to play it because they literally can’t afford to buy the game. And yes, the majority of hardware and game pirates ARE from poor Counties, it’s a damn fact!
“if you weren’t going to buy it then you have no business playing it”
What if a friend lends you the game?
Thats the thing but huge companies are stupid as f@@K
It’s not bullshit though… O_o
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/03/why-poor-countries-lead-world-piracy
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PieterSmal/20161006/277370/Solving_the_problem_of_Piracy_in_the_Third_World.php
Take 2 never liked PC gamers. Why is this mod even public before its ready to release?
T2I has become more hated in my eyes than EA. At least Ea(as horrible as they are, dont get me wrong) never sent private investigators to peoples houses and silenced them into submission as well as ruining their lives.
You know, unless Take Two was planning to make a remaster themselves for PC (which I really freaking doubt) I don’t understand why even go after this. I mean, people just wanna play it at a frame rate that doesn’t make them wanna hurl and on a platform you never released it on. What’s the problem?
The problem probably is that if they can’t get the money no one else should, even if it’s free. It’s typical for such projects, sadly.
Weird…Its almost like they made the game, they own the IP or something….Although it is hilarious how people try to justify stealing as well it was going to be free, well those lost sales weren’t going to be sales anyway…Meanwhile 99.999% if those people would be crapping their diapers and calling lawyers if they actually created something and lost even a penny because someone pirated it or, because someone “modded” it for a platform that it wasn’t already on….
Doom devs released the sourcecode for free to the Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake games.
Oh noes. Boohoo. TakeTwo will now not earn billions of dollars every month and underpay their employees. Oh dear, I guess they will have to wait 2 months for that private jet plane now.
Give me a break, TakeTwo owns GTA Online which is the most profitable piece of media ever made. Cry me a river that these manipulative leeches won’t get money of a version of the game that does not exist. Or think of it this way.
The only way I can play Red Dead native is by buying a PS3 or XBOX and then a USED copy of Red Dead. So either way, no money is going to TakeTwo. Oops!
Oh noes. Boohoo. TakeTwo will now not earn billions of dollars every month and underpay their employees. Oh dear, I guess they will have to wait 2 months for that private jet plane now.
Give me a break, TakeTwo owns GTA Online which is the most profitable piece of media ever made. Cry me a river that these manipulative leeches won’t get money of a version of the game that does not exist. Or think of it this way.
The only way I can play Red Dead native is by buying a PS3 or XBOX and then a USED copy of Red Dead. So either way, no money is going to TakeTwo. Oops!
They take two when the other only take one…what a greedy thing…
Let’s not forget that most emulator users pirate the games.
I really hope he fights this. If the textures are entirely original assets, and he isn’t providing any assets or code from the game, there’s zero reason this should be illegal (in the United States and least).
Also it was Atlus, not Aspyr, that went after RPCS3 for Persona 5.
Thanks for saving me having to post this. Well put.
For you, I have my special answer: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/43fb7d1a4e61da04109a46e9eadc7b3fc248a1c581309bb23bc73f20ede3e748.jpg
they dont care (taketwo). they usually fight with lawyers for years and years until modders desist on development. If they dont (modders), they waste a lot of money on lawyers. even if the mod is legal, they money on lawyers for years is a lot of cash. TakeTwo cant care less about money spent on lawyers even if they know that going to lose.
lmao apsyr what lazy a*s journalism.
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“As such, the development of this Red Dead Redemption project may soon resume too”
Also, another reason to be optimistic is that Take-Two has a history of backing down after having threatened the modding community in recent years…
dsogaming(dot)com/news/rockstar-games-issues-an-official-statement-regarding-mods/
dsogaming(dot)com/news/openiv-mod-is-back-from-the-dead-new-version-is-now-available/
“Let’s not forget when Aspyr issued a copyright claim to the creators of the RPCS3 emulator for allowing PC gamers to play Persona 5.”
I have to take my fun jab at this and say, I can’t forget, because I never remembered this happening in the first place.
Stop buying Take-Two games!!! oh wait that’s never gonna happen…
If only your parents protected theirselves the way T2 did…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a5c06ecf45ecd63d4bc43e4362d869480fc3cd0377299d2bcb0c1801834b7f2a.gif
Maybe now people who make similar mods/remakes/etc will stay silent until it’s ready to release.
Take 2 are greedy bastards that are not better than EA in my opinion
Just look at the nba 2k series that just became a lootbox fest and the latest trailer for nba 2k20 made me wonder if it was a basketball game or basketball themed casino game.
And gta 5 they abandoned single player dlc and focused on the multiplayer because they were making so much money from the idiots that bought shark cards.
And of course how they treat pc gamers like second grade customers.
Businesses are built to make profit. The decision makers could not care less whether gamers ar happy as long as their account books are looking green. Most of them don’t even play games. Its just a money making machine for them
you are here toguether with the “filthy pirates…” mr clean fingers. XD.
Everyone in the comment section saying Fuq Rockstar & Take 2 are the same people that will be pre-ordering the hell out of GTA VI. Probably have your money stacked away for that game already. That boring piece of SchiTT franchise. Same people complaining about Borderlands 3, already pre-ordered it on all platforms. You people make these companies boat load of monies and is why they are like this.
I won’t be, not after the crappy port that was GTA V.
Some people laud it as a great port, when really it was an unoptimized game, that featured “future proof” settings, that in the end were not all that future proofed, because graphically, it’s not holding up so well at this current time (especially with the crappy shadow bug still present).
Two GTV V to this date is one of the most awful ports out there yet it made billions of dollars. I just don’t understand the mind set of gamers these days. From the moment you boot up the game, that hitching you get at the main screen as if it’s gonna explode. And the funny thing is GTA V doesn’t look that good to justify that performance overhead. But all the suckheads would differ im sure.
It’s all about getting that dopamine fix to them. I won’t really be supporting games that have gone EGS exclusive either, mostly because I know full well that we now have enough devs, that will simply create experiences similar to those that went exclusive.
Yeah man, I’m still pissed about Metro Exodus. The sad part is, they aren’t even using unreal engine, but still hell bent on this path. They came out and said that going forward that’s how they’ll release the Metro games. They still just wanna be wrong and strong. I loved the Metro franchise so much that, I don’t even like first person games and I play the hell out of that franchise. But the only good thing that came out if this was, I got to play it for free. So I guess I shouldn’t be complaining, just saw sad to see the PC platform go under such attacks.
>GTA V to this date is one of the most awful ports out there
Excuse me? The port of GTA V is great, its GTA IV that got canned when it was released on the PC. This is the first time I’m hearing anyone complaining about the GTA V port, with honestly makes me believe you people are just being contrarians for the sake of pretending your not butthurt by Take-Two meddling with this mod.
I’m mad they fucked with this mod too, but I’m not gonna act like I don’t want them to port RDR2 to PC anymore just because of that. Get a grip you two.
>GTA V to this date is one of the most awful ports out there yet
Excuse me? GTA V port is great, its GTA IV that got canned when it was ported to the PC. Are you sure your not mistaking these two games? Because I have never seem anyone else complaining about the GTA V port and honestly this just reads like you people are acting all contrarian for the sake of pretending your not butthurt by Take-Two meddling with this mod.
I’m mad they screwed with this mod too, but I’m not gonna act like everything they do to the PC community is sh*t or that they shouldn’t even bother porting RDR2 to the PC just because of that. Get a grip you two.
I love how R*/T2 treat PC gamers with such contempt, but at the same time they know they want to make money off of PC gaming.
Maybe stop treating them like second class gamers, and just release the damn game on PC first, instead of 5-10 years down the road, at full price?.
Eff these people…. If they aren’t going to re-make the game themselves, then why should they care? If they do have plans to remake the game, then why can’t they just say so?
Its Take-Two, not Rockstar, you mongoloid.
Um what? He doesn’t let anyone play RDR on PC… RPCS3 and Xenia do. T2 logic?
That’s Atlus. And they went after the Patreon of the main dev for advertising that Persona 5 was playable on it. They couldn’t and still can’t touch the emulator itself
Why did the modder take down the texture pack, Take Two couldn’t do sh*t about it, they were breaking no laws…. It was just a texture pack.
I dunno why they advertise, go dark, and then just release it out of nowhere anonymously.
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DSOGaming. Contact me to see if tittle was good and it’s not. This is not a Remaster i got Striked because of Click Bait Tittles. Please correct both articles i have to do clean up to fix this and get Take Two to allow it to continue. Also if you contacted me you would have full story.
Too late, everyone here is already grabbing their torches and pitchforks to rally against Take-Two.
That’s good will teach them a lesson.
That’s why the PC remaster is in brackets. The article also specifically explains what this mod actually is. Still, feel free to send me any additional details that you want us to publish in future stories ( john2@dsogaming.com )
Why do these people who start these remasters always make it public before the work is all complete? It was obvious this would happen. Complete the remaster first then make it public then this wouldn’t have happened.
I don’t understand why these guys make these big announcements about doing it as though they have some big product to sell. They should keep their mouths shut and just do it.
F* U TAKE TWO!
I don’t get it why modders release info about mods early in the dev cycle, why not release info when its just about ready to be released. And for games like RDR or any other popular games like it, they can just release it without any prior announcements. It’s release will automatically have a huge ripple effect…and once its out there, it can never be taken back!
Motherf*kers, they’re never gonna port the first game to pc, won’t even release the second one for no reason at this point.
They’re not a first party publisher, console hardware sales don’t affect them and they’re pretty much the only scumbags left who do this, releasing games on both consoles but not pc.
So now not even that’s enough, deny us the emulation of an 8 year old game that they no longer have any interest in. No publisher yet has shown so much disregard and hatred towards a platform, not even Activision and EA, making TakeTwo the worst scum yet.