While we have not received a comment from Take-Two, Rockstar just sent PC Gamer its statement on the matter. Original story: Yesterday we reported that the lead developer of OpenIV, a modding tool that has allowed the GTA games to be modded for nearly a decade, had decided to shut down their mod after receiving a cease and desist from Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft auto series. Here’s Rockstar’s statement about Take-Two shutting down GTA’s OpenIV modding tool This is from yesterday (wish I would have found it then): With many thanks for all modding community for all your fantastic creations, Unless top management of Take-Two company makes an official statement about modding, which can be used in court. It was a hard decision, but when any modding activity has been declared illegal, we can’t see any possibilities to continue this process, So, we decided to agree with their claims and we’re stopping distribution of OpenIV. Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can’t compensate the loss of time.
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. Yes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal. Yes, this letter is illiterate both technically and grammatically (really, they don’t even bothered with proof-reading the text). It clearly says, that with OpenIV we “ allow third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two’s rights“. On June 5th, 2017, we had received an official Cease-and-Desist letter. No distribution of original data and code.Strictly following of Civil Code of Russia ( only reverse engineering for interoperability).Since GTA III, people have created lots of different mods: from simple texture replacements to impressive full conversions.Īnd the modding always was a “ gray zone” - a battlefield between lawyers and PR…įor almost ten years of OpenIV development, we had tried to play as nice as possible and even more:
GTA modding had long and glorious history. The day, when GTA modding was declared illegal. We feared that this day would come… And now it’s here.
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