GTA 5 Liberty City Mod Taken Down by Rockstar Games - IGN
GTA 5 Liberty City Mod Taken Down by Rockstar Games - IGN
The Liberty City Project, a mod recreating GTA 4 inside GTA 5, has been shut down by Rockstar Games.
Stop making “fan projects” 👏
These companies don’t give a shit about your passion. They will shut you down or sue you. Put that effort into making your own original game and reap the benefits of your passion.
It's the same reason people make fan art or fan fiction. it's a way to develop technical skill without starting from scratch with creative skills you may have no interest in.
Or make them quietly and release them basically complete, or release them anonymously (and actually anonymously, not via a pseudonym on a website like github where you can be easily tracked down)
But at that point I probably wouldn’t bother either
Keep making fan projects, just ignore the law and distribute it anonymously.
Copyright and patent laws need to die. Future generations are laughing at us for how stupid we are in keeping them around.
Some people who make these do it just for fun and to learn game development. Getting shut down is actually a badge of honor, means the company thought it was good enough to be a threat.
It's basically illegal, although "good" publishers don't care.
Another reason why I'm not holding out for GTA VI... Rockstar has changed a lot since GTA V, and not in a good way.
I hope they do something about cheaters. Playing GTA5 online missions is way more fun when they dont just teleport and kill you while on a mission.
Trust me, I've played GTA Online since the day it launched (or the week afterwards rather since the servers were really shit at launch), they only ever did anything about cheaters if they cheated money.
I remember all the early money exploits and car duplication glitches, those were usually hotfixed in a day while other (game-breaking) bugs existed for years...
I'm hoping they do something actually effective against the cheaters, so far the only thing they havd accomplished is screwing over their Linux users. I went to pick the game up again the other day and found it no longer functions for multiplayer under proton because they are too scared it'll be used for hacking. Meanwhile everyone and their mother is removed that thd cheating still exists so obviously Linux wasn't the issue.
I've played through every single GTA game and still think that Vice City is the best, with San Andreas as a very close second.
the only reason i know about and care about gta 5 is because of sips so basically what im saying is sips should be ceo of rockstar
Rockstar is well-known for asking modders to take down various mods like this AI-powered GTA 5 story mode mod, or a VR mod for Red Dead Redemption 2. The Liberty City Preservation Project take down is also not without direct precedent as Rockstar issued a take-down for a mod that tried to recreate Grand Theft Auto Vice City within GTA 5.
All examples of how the current license/ip model is not supportive for creativity and innovation.
Woops, Mutahar accidentally indirectly killed it by giving it coverage.
He covered it about two weeks ago trepedatiously, thinking the project was awesome, but stating that Rockstar could kill the whole thing if they became aware of it...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jTrY6P1H53E
And now its dead.
"Due to the unexpected attention that our project received and after speaking with Rockstar Games, we have decided to take down the Liberty City Preservation Project."
The above linked almost half million view video is almost certainly the 'unexpected attention our project recieved', not the inline linked tweet IGN provided with less than 300 retweets.
But hey, think of all the views he got
Surprise surprise
What is the legal reasoning for this? From what I've read about this mod, you have to already own both GTA 4 and 5, kinda like the Tale of Two Wastelands mod for Fallout 4, so it's not like they were redistributing files they don't own.
Based on previous actions and statements, I believe their complex legal reasoning is: ‘fuck you’
Reasoning:
I mean, that's generally the answer but how do they gain here? Again, since it requires both GTA 4 and 5, wouldn't it be more likely to drive sales of both from people wanting to play the mod, thus giving Cockstar more revenue? At least Nintendo's inane BS makes sense, trying to stop emulation because you "need" emulators to play pirated Nintendo games. Taking down this mod, or the VR mods, doesn't make a lick of sense.
Think the “right to repair” conversation. When you buy something, their argument is you don’t own it. You can’t alter it, you can’t do with it what you want for your own use. It’s theirs and you’re only allowed to look at it in its current form. If it’s broken? It’s your problem. If you fix it, we’re gonna make it your problem. That kinda thing.
There doesn't really have to be one. There companies have deep pockets and the legal process itself is long and costly. They know you might win, but they also know you can't afford to slog through the process to actually get an outcome.
Did he have a Patreon or something?
Fuck copyright and patent laws.
NO NONO NONO FK Rockstar!
What's the city(s) the new one is set in? If it has any part of Liberty City, yeah they're gonna take it down. Unfortunately.
I was under the impression it was meant to be Vice City. They're just not very friendly to modding in general.
I reckon this suggests GTA 7 is being planned to return to NY
Lmao we'll be playing it in full dive VR in 2045