The whole GTA and modding community were in an uproar when the developer for OpenIV, a tool that allows you to mod GTA V announced that OpenIV would no longer be distributed due to Take-Two sending him a Cease and Desist letter. PC Gamer reached out to Rockstar regarding this matter and this was their statement.
“Take-Two’s actions were not specifically targeting single player mods. Unfortunately OpenIV enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody. We are working to figure out how we can continue to support the creative community without negatively impacting our players.”
Now, back in 2015 when the game was launched for the PC they sort of supported GTA modding and were fine with it as long as it didn’t mess with the Online experience. This is what they had stated back then.
“We have always appreciated the creative efforts of the PC modding community and we still fondly remember the awesome zombie invasion mod and original GTA map mod for GTAIV PC among many other classics. To be clear, the modding policy in our license has not changed and is the same as for GTAIV. Recent updates to GTAV PC had an unintended effect of making unplayable certain single player modifications. This was not intentional, no one has been banned for using single player modifications, and you should not worry about being banned or being relegated to the cheater pool just for using single player PC mods. Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing. It also bears mentioning that because game mods are by definition unauthorized, they may be broken by technical updates, cause instability, or affect your game in other unforeseen ways.”
From Rockstar’s recent statement of trying to figure out how to continue to support the creative community I hope they don’t go with paid mods.
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