Things are getting out of hand with GTA V’s mod, FiveM. FiveM started as a fan multiplayer mod for GTA V that received a C&D letter from Take-Two. And yesterday, NTAuthority claimed that some Private Investigators from Take-Two went to his home, forcing him to completely shut down his project.
the public part of FiveM is the only part of the project that is currently no longer under development, and that the base framework is still being developed.
As NTAuthority wrote on Reddit:
“So I just got a pair of PIs at my door claiming to be sent by Take Two, handing me a phone with a person somewhere in the UK or US or whatever to ‘discuss how to cease my activities with regard to Grand Theft Auto’, that ‘they know what happened before with Activision and want to not get the lawyers involved at this time’, however they ‘have tested their legal standing already and are quite certain of their point’ and ‘aren’t willing to accept any solution other than ceasing my activiites’. Oh, they also ‘couldn’t disclose any conversations they’re having with other modification developers’, didn’t want to talk about general modification policy as ‘it was just about my case’ and admitted they ‘looked through my source code’.”
Back in September when we reported the news of FiveM’s cancellation, NTAuthority got in touch with us and told us that the base framework of this mod was still under development.
“If you followed my full Twitter or even had a single glance at the FiveM project page, you’d have known that the only part of the project that was ‘no longer under development’ (for the time being) was the public part of FiveM – not the base framework, which would be able to be used by anyone (as the HTML comments on fivem.net indicate); including to create exactly what FiveM originally consisted of.
This measure was necessary as the amount of people on the FiveM community forums (and greater GTA community) spouting disbelief in FiveM ever ‘being finished’ (and reposting the same ‘bugs’ in the initial release — that was never meant to be, but was only officially released as the initial builds from the source code repository became slightly too popular and had massive flaws) became only a hindrance to further development.”
Our guess is that Take-Two wants NTAuthority to completely stop working on that base framework.
For what is worth, it’s really sad witnessing something like that. We love modders as they often surprise us and NTAuthority’s mod was really interesting. Yes, it was a mod that would, perhaps, rival the official MP mode. However, Rockstar Games – and other developers – should start learning from these guys instead of doing their best to shut them down.
Here is a hint publishers and developers; instead of fighting modders, embrace them. Think outside the box. There is a reason why Treyarch decided to offer mod tools for Black Ops III and Bethesda is so open to mods.
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Seriously, most game companies nowadays are just greedy like that.
You have the company behind one of the best selling games of the generation basically sending goons to shake down a modder at his house/workplace in the off chance he might be doing something that will affect their in-app purchase model.
It was about f’ing time someone did something about those f’ing modders. I paid 60$ for this sh*t and I only got to play it for 2 months till mods came out.
You can’t play a decent session without someone blowing stuff up.
Rockstar must be the most overrated studio in the world. I wonder when PC gamers will realize that they don’t care about them.
I knew rockstar dont give a single fk about pc gamers, but this is just wrong
Rockstaar care about gamers ” Rockstar is a great company ” Just another proof no one company cares about gamers..just care about your money and nothing more.
In 2015 yeah few companies care a little about gamers, but yeah its all about the money
Every business is about the money. No money, no business.
That said, allowing (or even supporting) something like this would go a long way toward building good will among gamers.
It’s like Microsoft’s breaking its promise on OneDrive; who’s going to trust them now?
Not all of them, CD Projekt RED is an example. They released a lot of free DLC for TW3. On, their facebook, people comment, and explain about bugs, glitches that happen to them. CD Projekt RED will work on fixing right away.
Btw, Take-Two is absolutely a d*ck. I’m a partner of a gaming news in my country. I got a strike from them when I uploaded to a video of Battleborn story mode walk through on Youtube to introduce that game (I didn’t say anything bad about their game tho). And yeah, I got strike immediately after uploading.
Never trusted microsoft I dont think I ever will :I
They had built up so much good will in my mind with the OneDrive promise, Windows 10 (I liked 8.x, though), and the Surface Book and Pro 4.
But this latest debacle means that you can’t trust anything they say. If they’re going to renege on “free,” what other promises about “free” will they break?
Free upgrades for life?
yeah f rockstar, they only made the game, you wouldn’t be here complaining about it with no gta 5
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popo
Hah!i bet it’s not even Rockstar devs fault or intention of doing such thing. GTA is a bussiness now and these kind of b’s have giant marketing teams behind them. They decide the fate of alot of things. And all they see is money.
So guess they went full berserk when they found out about this mod. A potential threat to their sales.
Instead of just temporarily hiring the fellow and add it as an official game mode…
Sad news 🙁
wrong type of modder your describing.
your describing the typical modder normally found on console. This modder was not the same type of modder as you would find in a regular online session.
Perhaps you should Re-read the article.
I know the story, it’s old. It’s because of him the source code got released and other small time modders created something that ruins the multiplayer experience!
Then those other people are who Rockstar should be pursuing. Whoever released the source code is not guilty of what other people chose to do with it. He wants to create a NEW, DIFFERENT multiplayer, not hack the existing one.
Come one man, he knew what he was unleashing. Cut the evil from the root, I say.
“he knew what he was unleashing”
As far as i am concerned. RockStar allows modding for there Grand Theft Auto V game. If they didn’t want anyone to mess with the source code then they would of prevented people from modding by not allowing mods, but they don’t. They allow players to mod there games and download mods. Except for Rockstar’s own multiplayer which would make sense. this guy was attempting to create his own multiplayer. He was not attempting to hack RockStar’s current multiplayer which gets boring and dull, maybe the other guys multiplayer version would of been a whole lot better.
“Cut the evil from the root” What evil is being committed? He wanted to create his own multiplayer which he was in his rights to do so. RockStar allows people to mod there GTA V game, if they didn’t want him to do so, then they would of not allowed modding at all. the sites down below show rockstar does nothing about players modding there game, and clearly has no problem. But now they did since this would most likely compete with RockStar’s multiplayer which is already filled with hackers and modders, this guy releasing the source code would of changed nothing. The modders and hackers would still be rampant in GTA V even if the source code was never released.
https://www.gta5-mods.com/
http://www.gtainside.com/en/news.php
Rockstar are incompetent when it comes to PC so their games run terribly and multiplayer has no cheat protection. Blame someone who released the source code. Like there wouldn’t have been tons of cheaters otherwise. And then you hit that other guy with the “I’m older so I’m right XD” fallacy. Not saying his reasoning is on point either but come on. If you’re actually old by internet standards, say 30 or over, you should know better than to defend ROCKSTAR.
Moneygreedy grudging sons of bbb………….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey if the dev doesnt want its game modded then dont mod it.move on from gta5.
mods/hacks were there since xbox 360 version, u know we talking about pc version here?
I was talking about the pc version, I don’t care about consoles.
I was making only a general point, not one about any particular company.
I love free. I still remember when the original Unreal Tournament kept getting free content.
I know that I’m biased, but that’s the way it should be. (And why I never buy games full-priced. I wait for the “Game of the Year” version or whatever they want to call it before I purchase.)
you guys are still gonna buy there games though…. how pathetic. such cucks.
Hacking != modding
You keep saying “there, there, there”. You mean their? Do I smell a capricorn here? You keep arguing with me; I get it, you find mods very cool, I used to like them too. Rockstar never had “there” source code naked. That’s why it took people a whole 14months to crack gta IV and half the time to crack gta V. Not to mention they do not allow modding in “there” policy.
Listen, in 10 years when you’ll be my age you’ll see things my way, trust me.