After Take-Two have essentially banned modding for Grand Theft Auto V, the whole gaming community, especially PC gamers have come together to make it known that they are not pleased with the decision. There are numerous threads on NeoGAF and Reddit with people complaining about this decision while defending OpenIV, the tool that was banned. The community has been leaving negative reviews on Steam which has seen the game’s overall rating go from Overwhelmingly Positive to Mixed and recent rating to Overwhelmingly Negative.
Players have also decided to boycott Take-Two games with many users urging people to let Take-Two know with your wallet. Games from Take-Two includes the Borderlands series, The Red Dead series, the WWE 2K games. Players are also not playing the game to show that they are against the ban of mods in a game series that is known for its mods. But we don’t know if this will do anything besides maybe get attention to Take-Two who might just turn a blind eye because they’re still making money.
Members of the community are also stating that the decision to ban OpenIV is not a valid one with the reason Take-Two stated “OpenIV enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players”. OpenIV isn’t an enabler or an active script loader, it’s an extraction and repacking tool for GTA V’s encrypted RPF files, it’s the equivalent of Winzip or Winrar, but for RPF files. The developers behind OpenIV disabled the tool for online use, so it’s not possible to modify the game play GTA Online with the tool. Also, OpenIV is only for PC and doesn’t affect console hackers in any way, heck it doesn’t even affect PC hackers.
The hacks and mods that Take-Two is referring to affecting GTA Online users relates to script modifiers and dll injectors. The injectors and script modifiers have absolutely nothing to do with OpenIV. Dll injectors or ASI loaders can affect every portion of GTA, including the online portion of the game, and many hackers have been using the ASI trainers to grief other players in GTA Online.
So Take-Two, your “reason” to ban this tool as not a valid one. Instead of having a better anti-cheat they just ban everything. Why not make GTA V SP and GTA Online separate then? That way people can mod freely and you can still rake in the money from Online. Oh, and the ban on OpenIV just doesn’t affect GTA V, it affects games like GTA IV and Max Payne 3 as well because they too used the same tool. Hence the name OpenIV. So Take-Two, please sort your stuff out, you’ve messed up here, big time. But hey, at least they’ve gone after the actual trainers that were messing with the Online aspect of the game too, so there’s that.
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