Take-Two Interactive, the mother or father firm of the Grand Theft Auto collection developer Rockstar, has issued one other wave of Digital Milennium Copyright Act strikes in opposition to a number of GTA mods. Many of the affected mods had been ports of places, cities, vehicles, and characters of outdated Rockstar video games on newer GTA titles.
The mods that had been taken down on this wave are:
- Vice Cry: Remastered 1.0 (A port of Vice Cry to GTA V)
- OpenManhunt 1.0.0 (A map conversion that brings Manhunt Ranges to GTA: San Andreas)
- Liberty revind
- Bullworth – OpenBull 1.0.0 (Brings Bullworth Academy (BULLY) into GTA: San Andreas)
- ViIV (Alhpa model и Model 3)
- Grand Theft Auto V: Bullworth 0.1 [ALPHA]
- SA2LC
- Liberty Metropolis & Vice Metropolis v4.0
In keeping with GTA Boards person Ash_735, TakeTwo introduced a clause that prohibited gamers from porting outdated content material into the brand new engine or from modding GTA On-line in any approach. Supposedly, that settlement was up to date quietly in 2019 to additionally stop gamers from including new content material to the RAGE engine, too.
I would wish to level out {that a} related wave of DMCA seen occurred in opposition to older GTA Mods in ModDB. Very like this week’s takedown wave, the mods that had been attacked by the DMCA sharks had been mods that ported the content material from different GTA video games or Rockstar properties to newer engines.
Folks in the neighborhood are speculating that there may very well be a wave of old-school Rockstar remasters or remakes on the way in which. Take-Two’s DMCA takedown spree appears to be directed at mods that use content material from PS2-era video games made by Rockstar resembling Bully and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
Let’s not overlook that earlier this month, Take-Two introduced that they are working on 3 remasters of previously released games throughout an investor presentation. These initiatives had been listed alongside the upcoming PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S model of Grand Theft Auto V and Kerbal House Program.
We’ll have to attend and see what these 3 remasters will contain, nevertheless it’s stated that it is a remaster of the GTA Trilogy. Nevertheless, solely time will inform if the video games that shall be remastered turn into properties like Bully and Manhunt.
