Even HD texture projects such as Vice Cry have been targeted, too.įrom what the modding community can gather, it looks as though Take-Two's lawyers are scouring modding databases for terms like Liberty City, Vice City, San Andreas, etc.
Since yesterday, then, Take-Two has issued mass takedown orders for a number of older GTA mods, including mods that have been featured on GTAF in the Modding Section such as GTA: Underground, which was seemingly due a large update in the next few days, and the 15-year-old project, GTA: Liberty City. The issue becomes particularly challenging when players discovered there was no way to compare old and new versions of the agreement, as the page was seemingly "excluded from the Wayback Machine and other archiving websites so people can no longer check what it used to say". This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Vice Cry is a FULLY ORIGINAL mod, not using ANY converted assets. Apparently, a new rule was also allegedly added that said that as well as not porting content from older games, modders cannot create new content, either - which means they can't do very much of anything anymore. Now, however, Ash alleges that the agreement was "updated without informing the community, multiple changes and words were changed to pretty much add in a disclaimer that Take-Two can override any of this and well, Take-Two can do what they want". "The original was drafted up in 2017 and can be summarised as "Don't port maps/vehicles/content from older GTA games or other video games series to RAGE" and 'Stay away from Online, absolutely do not touch Online or anything related to GTA Online'". "Now what came from this is Rockstar Games stepping up and talking to Take-Two to highlight the importance of the modding community and as such the takedowns dropped but some 'rules' were put into place. "Naturally this did not fly well back in 2017 and both gamers and the gaming media attacked Rockstar and Take-Two for this decision," they continue. As Ash puts it, an agreement to help the publisher and the modding community peacefully coexist was struck a little while back when Take-Two "tried to make modding GTA games illegal".
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