While players continue to criticize the recently released GTA trilogy remastered collection, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive has decided that this will be the Perfect Time to use DMCA opt-out notices to remove more GTA Mods and fan projects.
On November 11th, so the people from the GTA Modding site Freedom city, Take-Two contacted them and used DMCA strikes to remove three different GTA-related mods. The three removed mods are listed below:
- GTA Advance PC Port Beta 2
- The Lost and Damned unlocked for GTA 4
- GTA IV EFLC The Lost and the Damned (65%)
GTA Advance PC port is a fan-developed project that seeks to bring the game into the GTA 3 Engine. Developed by Digital Eclipse, GTA Advance was only released in 2004 on the GameBoy Advance.
The Lost and Damned unlocked for GTA IV is a mod released in 2009 that makes players the star of. can exchange GTA IV, Niko Bellic, with the protagonist of Lost and damned DLC, biker Johnny Klebitz. It also included some new biker outfits and icons.
In the end, GTA IV EEFLC (65%) is not even a mod! It’s just a save file for the game that players can start with at 65% completion. Yes, Take-Two used a DMCA strike against a save file for a game that was released over a decade ago.
These are just the latest of a growing number of GTA Mod’s Take-Two has been tracked and removed with DMCA legal notices. During the past year The company was on a takedown tour, such as a GTA Character on a rampage. It also has Fan developer sued over source code projects and resulted in some old mods like GTA Underground, Closing for fear of further legal and financial difficulties.
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The last time these type of mod takedowns took place, they were mostly aimed at the classic PS2 era GTA Games like Vice City. Not long after and the following Cotacus own report in August, Rockstar confirmed remastered versions of all three classic PS2s GTA Games should be out this year. These games have been released since then earlier this week with mostly negative reactions that fans share numerous bugs and graphical errors on Twitter and Reddit.
Based on what happened last time, some speculate that these takedowns are evidence that a GTA IV Remaster could come sometime in the future. According to sources spoken to Kotaku in the past about Rockstar’s future remasters, GTA IV as well as Red Dead Redemption Remasters are possible. Although plans can and do change, and in the face of recent backlash GTA Remasters, Rockstar may be more reluctant to allow future re-releases.
Regardless of whether these takedowns are evidence of a future GTA IV Remaster or not, it’s still a frustrating situation for modders and community developers who have spent decades improving, porting, and maintaining the classic GTA Games so fans can play them for years after Rockstar moved on. Kotaku spoke to some modders who seemed sick of rock star and many more have moved on to other games from other companies out of concern about the potential legal pitfalls for further modification Grand Theft Auto Title.
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