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GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com)
OpenIV, a popular modding tool used by tons of GTA V fans, is shutting down. After nearly 10 years of operation, the creators claim they have received a cease and desist from Take-Two Interactive -- the publisher of Grand Theft Auto. The news has shocked the PC Grand Theft Auto community, who use OpenIV to add thousands of mods into GTA V. Many upset modders have retaliated by flooding GTA V with negative reviews on Steam. Kotaku reports: According to a post on the official OpenIV website, the alleged cease and desist came on June 5th 2017. The supposed problem, OpenIV's creators say, is that the program allows "third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two's rights." After discussing their options, the team behind the tool says they decided it was not worth their time to fight back. "Yes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal," creator GooD-NTS wrote. "Yes, we could. But we decided not to. Going to court will take at least few months of our time and huge amount of efforts, and, at best, we'll get absolutely nothing. Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can't compensate the loss of time. So, we decided to agree with their claims and we're stopping distribution of OpenIV."
Take Two just bought Kerbal Space Program. Are they going to try to put a stop to KSP modding? Would Take Two even survive that?
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Fuck you, Zelnick. The GTA community will accept nothing less than your resignation and the firing of the asshats in the company who dreamed up this fuckwaddery to justify their unnecessary jobs.
>in violation Take-Two's rights
Oh boo hoo hoo cry me a river. You have been as profitable as a pure golden turd and it is the fans and modders who made that possible. Fuck them over and they will desert you.
JUST in the nick of time! Allowing modding, and then pulling it years later... Equates to me never buying your titles again. Enjoy those lost dollars, because that is all you "Won" today Take-Two, Less profits :-P
To me, this means that Take Two has decided to keep using the exact same engine for GTA 6, and they don't want that game to be cracked/modded on day 1.
"We have a game here that customers really enjoy adding their own content to, at their own time and expense, which results in the game remaining entertaining longer and increases purchases... we've let that go for years because it benefits us. So what the hell, let's shut it down, reduce the value of our product, and piss off our customer base. It's a bold plan, let's see how it plays out!"
They want to protect their DLC which apparently makes more than the game itself... but their DLC is already making money. Shutting down 3rd party content isn't going to result in a boost to that income stream, and since they turn out new content at a pathetically slow pace, it's actually likely to go down as players get bored and move on to something else.
I saved more than 100% on my gaming budget by not purchasing a single GTA game, ever. Raise of hands for those who are with me! *raise*
That game always gets negative reviews. Not just for them trying to stop the modding, but also for the unreliable or completely non-working GTA online. A game with boundless promise, killed by a company that's more concerned about making money (who'd have thunk it).
They recently displayed a GTA VI demo at E3. Up until now, modders were great for sales and retention. But now they have a sequel and they have to hype how much better the sequel is going to be than the last one.
Think about it this way: any new feature announced for GTA VI will see GTA V modders seeing if they can't just mod that into GTA V. Which would take a dump on their marketing. GTA V is the old stuff, GTA VI is where their profit is. Modding isn't for your benefit, it's because it extends the lifetime, community and sales of the product. But now, they don't want that. They want to create a clear distinction by which GTA VI is "better" than GTA V. How better to do that than crushing the mod scene?
...not merely tolerates modding, but actually gives assistance to the people who decompile and deobfuscate the Minecraft executables after each update, effectively making Minecraft open-source. Also, when the makers of Bukkit - a popular modded server platform - announced they'd stop updating in protest of something or another, one of the head Minecraft devs stepped in and said he'd update it himself if they weren't going to.
Take Two/R* first co-opted modders through GTAForums with some success.
Unfortunately, they went for too much by trying to kill off modding entirely. Hopefully they reverse course, as they've removed any goodwill.
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And then OpenIV went and ported Liberty City into GTA V. Not a good idea for staying under the radar.
Rockstar has made their cash. These whiners can kick rocks at this point.
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Does KSP have official multiplayer, then no?
Won't buy GTA VI because of this.
Hugely ignorant to how the industry (and capitalism, and fair use, and legal matters in general) works. Even when they understand modders work largely for nothing they still are demanding self entitled immature fans. Combining those to things with a successful mod that the parent company shuts down and you are asking for an epic sh!t storm
(former senior modder)
This is how you kill your customer base. Brilliant move, guys!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I remember when companies used to give a shit about customers. Now days, apparently not. Fuck them.
If your going to treat people that actually BUY your game and then go through all the trouble of doing mods to actually make it BETTER, and you shit on them.. them fuck you.
Never ever by a game from these assholes again. Oh, legalize.. my humble opinion and all of that.
Life was hell, then I discovered Linux...
That's basically capitalism: I spend some time to get some money.
GTA V is one of the most awaited game for me and I really enjoyed playing the game
I think I probably speak for most here when I say, what the fuck are you talking about?
But without mods, Minecraft is worth Candy Crush levels of retail price. Sans mods it's a good way to spend some hours every now and then in a virtual lego set world. With mods and there's a goal to the game.
Good riddance, in some ways... nothing like hopping into an online session and having dozens of cars dumped on your head.
Nico Bellic: "How come all the bridges are closed?"
Cousin Roman: "Terrorism."
Security. That's why we can't let you install mods on your very own personal _gaming_ system. It might start world war III or collapse the stock market, WE JUST DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!! so turn everything off.
Hi, We are a software publisher known mostly for a single product. Sure, occasionally we produce other products, but there's one cash-cow we always return to. We tell people it's better every time we release a new version, but we know that nobody really believes that. We certainly don't.
We allow modifications and additions to our software, up to a point, but when we can no longer monetize them, or they threaten our longer-term strategies, well... sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions. This is OUR product, after all, and although we encourage people to use and even EXTEND our platforms, when your products threatens our revenue streams... well, we just have to put a stop to that.
We hold no ill will towards developers who wish to use our platform in the way in which we intended. We're just trying to spread software diversity, without decreasing competition in the marketplace. I mean, heaven forbid there would be only one company supplying what you need.
This is one of the best game ever ,Nice graphics to play the game .I love to play the game .