GTA 5 Modders Banned For Trying To "Facilitate Piracy" on PC

No offense to anyone but the BIGGEST problem with mods in general, people dont use them responsibly. For example I had a guy literally CHASE me on foot attempting to GIVE me money. He was literally shitting bags out of his bum. I am one of those vanilla players. Im fine with it. There is more than enough stuff in the game for me to do. I would try something sometimes like a zombie mod or so and even then, I wouldnt go crazy with playing more than one type.

Anyways , naturally I was terrified that I would get banned or something bad would happen and his reply was ,"Dude chill...no one cares...youll be fine." Ok this guy isnt gonna buy me a new game, he doesnt know me, etc. Then the WORSE modders that come in and blatantly do things like god mode and explode players and vehicles with explosive punches. Now I understand that this is totally different and tbh I need to check out what the mod is about on its website, but still though.

No Offense.

We're going to ban you for ceating a mod that will let you play GTA online on another server

*makes mod and go online anyways*

YOU WOT M8?

I was completely done with this game by the time it FINALLY hit the PC, it's just old news.

Nothing quite like waiting for ever to play a Console port game and then try to keep your head on an online environment filled to the brim with hacks... Oh joy! MasterPuckingInfantRace ftw! Other than MMOs I'll do my gaming on a console, that actually gets things first and isn't a case of "get the latest hacks or gtfo".

It's so pathetic it came to the point people actually use hacks on tournaments *cof*CS*cof*

And who gives a crap about mods? I mean really.
Every single game I've modded since the 90's offered me 0,01% more than the stock game, if anything mods just kill the fun.
Real weapons and all the companions you want on Fallout? Great, for a good 15 minutes.
Play as the freaking Hulk on Liberty City? Awesome, for a good 8 minutes.

Not to mention, most of them involve nudity and sex, figures since they come from people with a mentality that closer resembles the one for a pre-pubescent teen.

It's a sad pleasure for a sad bunch of people that only get a decent game every other year, on a good decade that is.

I don't care what they say about their modding community, if a company designs a game that only allows mods under tightly controlled circumstances, then they kinda suck.

Considering people have successfully made private servers for other games and absolutely fucking nothing happened, I can only say those modders choose the wrong game from the wrong company to do this.

personally rockstar should create a separate set of servers for modders only. this would solve 2 problems.one is for solving the above reason. the other would allow none modders play the game with out having modders cheating in the online games.

before anyone attacks me for the second reason let me point out making an indestructible cop car to drive around in is cheating.i had this happen in the ps3 version of the game.

@tom2750

So you were lying then. Yes, there are a lot more PC gamers than on any console... but a lot of those gamers do not necessarily play the latest games.... and Ubisoft games in particular are not that popular as they are normally broken, also Ubisoft games on PC require Uplay which many people refuse to use.

As you yourself said, this does not mean PS4 outsold PC by 3 or 4 times ... it outsold by 4%. Bit different

This didn't even refer to one game, it referred to all Ubisoft games.

There are many PC games that vastly outsold the console counterparts if you care to look.

Skyrim for example had around twice the sales of either platform... and that is without me screwing the figures like you did.

Xcom also sold very well on PC compared to console, no exact figures though, just that Firaxis stated that console sales were negligible compared to PC.

Left for dead 2, bit old but outsold the console versions by a fair bit.

I could keep going, but won't as I have already proven you wrong.

Any more bullsh*t figures you fancy throwing out there?

Sensationalist clickbait headline. I read a much more even-handed article yesterday that gets far more of the mod creators side than the slanted sludge you wrote.
They created the mod as an alternative to GTA Online because it specifically says in the TOS that you're not allowed to alter that.

After all the shit Rockstar has gotten over the years, I would think they of all people would learn some fucking leniency or restraint.

So wait they revoked the right to play the offline portion too? Even though they paid money for it? GTA Online fine, but the whole offline too? That's so messed up. That's why I don't like buying my game digital.

Shocking to think pc players would commit piracy... What were they thinking ????

Yeah but if you notice all hackers have learned do not f$&$ w the money. You can however be invincible and f$&& w other players game experience but not w the shark cards. Don't you remember when our hackers gave us trillion dollar bounties? Great times. Now they don't even want to try bc they would like to play in future.

Sad news, but they're kinda right, they should however improve their official online servers/netcode stuff, because it's awful!

hi does anyone know the rockstar editor gta 5 is coming xbox one & ps4

Corporate strikes again...

"Suspended Social Club accounts mean the affected players no longer have access to GTA 5, GTA Online, and any other Rockstar or Take-Two games purchased on the platform."

Wait, so instead of just banning them from GTA:Online like every other developer would have, you decided to revoke their access to the single-player portions of all Rockstar games they've paid for?

I knew you guys were scumbags but wow... a new level of douchebaggery....

I'm gonna go upload pirate copies of several Rockstar games to popular P2P/sharing platforms.

GO FIVEM! YOU GUYS ARE HEROES!

GTA V sucks, GTA: SA MTA is so much better.

Not piracy. Rockstar wants people to pay for their crappy GTA Online. Any mod that allows people to have fun in multiplayer competes with them.

Shame on you, Rockstar

no suprise there. gto is their thing which they can make money off with people paying for in game money and such. they just dont want anyone else making a muiltiplayer mod to compete. however seems to me outright banning them was over the top. they should have just issued a warning. lol

I can understand why, but I was really looking forward to this. I would have loved to had one of their dedicated servers for LSPDFR, guess I'll have to wait for Police 10-13 to get a good police multiplayer game. Though I don't understand why Rockstar couldn't have allowed for private sessions that incorporated mods like in GTA IV, maybe I am not understanding the difference in the two, but I really enjoyed how that was an option.

For those of you complaining put yourself in rockstar shoes let say somebody came to your work with a mod that cause less people to use the service that your work offers so you end up making less money would you be cool with it or would you ban it.

Of course they'd ban it, and LOL "facilitate piracy", people are able to pirate their games just fine, not even GFWL and Their social club DRM could stop people from pirating GTA 4

I always wondered why Rockstar hadn't made dedicated servers for their online, but this explains it, custom dedis = GTA onlinie will no longer be pay 2 win

garbage

i.e. Servers without microtransactions

why create your own fun when you can buy fun with our shark cards

I never play GTA for the online anyways but for the free roam and chaos in single player. I have made complaints about the broken police AI (deadly accuracy, aggressive behaviour and wanted level takes way too long to get rid off) as well as lack of funny gagdets or interesting weapon variety. But instead, R* only gives a f*** about multiplayer. I still enjoy GTA IV over this game.

Sensatinalist headline, That's not what they were trying to do, not like I need anther reason to believe Rockstar are assholes.