Monday, June 19th 2017
GTA V is Slammed with a Swarm of Negative Reviews Following Mod Tool Shutdown
Grand Theft Auto V's Steam entry has been swarmed with negative reviews following Take Two Interactive's decision to shutdown the popular modding tool OpenIV with a legal cease and desist letter. In just a weeks time, over 42,000 reviews have been published on the Grand Theft Auto V steam page, the overwhelming majority of them negative (only 13 percent were positive). This is in stark contrast to the games usual rating, which is generally positive. It appears to have had such an impact as to actually make the game's overall rating fall into steams "mixed" rating territory.
Obviously, PC gamers everywhere are unwavering in their strong support of game changing mods, and publishers would be wise to approach modding projects they feel violate their rights with a soft-touch where possible. But it does raise a good question, how far is too far in PC modding? If you have to circumvent DRM to enable mods, is it wrong? Legally speaking, it often is, but should it be?
Let us know how you feel in the comments below.
Source:
Hothardware.com
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32 Comments on GTA V is Slammed with a Swarm of Negative Reviews Following Mod Tool Shutdown
JAT
Took them over 10 years to come to this ?, hell no i have a good feeling this is more about protecting GTA5 from mods and cheating, shame there is nothing protecting us from their lame ass shark cards.
Thankfully i have a lot of hate for GTA5 it's no were near as good as GTA4 these days.
openiv never touched online and so far the cluster bombing of everything modding related has just poked the hornets nest and made the backlash and the rampant hacking in gta:O 5x as bad
I got killed the other night by some guy riding a flaming dolphin shooting penis rockets
And I don't even LIKE the GTA series..
Given that there are plenty of examples of modding support increasing sales, this just seems like a move completely ignorant of the PC gaming scene.
Instead, they banned normal players and reseted their accounts, just cause some hacker added lots of ingame money to someone's character.
And when they finally do take action, they do not do proper cleaning... they just drop a nuke.
Library of congress has ruled many times that this falls into fair use and basic logic dictates that it is fair use.
Library of Congress also stated that all DRM must be removed if a product is abandoned which never happens. GTA4 for starters.
I wish there was teeth into charges brought against companies for not disabling DRM when they abandon a product.
DRM is explicitly why I dont buy rockstar games or UBIsoft. The lack of private servers is another reason.
If people were smart they would stop buying these games and give the finger to these companies. I refuse to pay more than 5 bucks for anything on steam because of steams own DRM.
GOG? I have no problem paying for games there because i know i dont have to deal with bullsh.......forgot this forum is childish/petty/immature. Well you know.
this isnt it but goes over some exceptions which are strictly unconstitutional.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-users-librarian-congress-renews-and-expands-protections-fair-uses
www.techdirt.com/articles/20151027/10131232649/library-congress-releases-dmca-anti-circumvention-exemptions-hot-mess.shtml
This law in of itself is illegal but....statist.
I could have sworn it was ruled or in the law. I could have sworn it was in an eff email or website :/
like the core law stated DRM must be removed after product is no longer in service. Maybe i am mistaken. If it isn't thats even more idiotic than i thought the law was TT
This is Rockstar being Epic Dicks.
After all they started on amiga then went to PC...
To each their own. But my play style is usually the one most shafted. I love trainers in games with unlimited units and res and you play with friends and mess with game mechanics. This is mostly RTSs but still applies to FPS or RPGs or other games.PM me if you ever want to play. It is on my bucket list and i really want to play it. I have a huge list of old games via personal ISOs, GOG, and stuff i want to play co-op but no one ever does.
I would love to see a remake of x wing alliance where you could have like 1000 crafts. The game allowed 64 IIRC space crafts in a 1998? game with actually decent graphics! Holy crap it was ahead of its time!
reminds me of EE with 5000 player count O.o. There is a version with 12000 IIRC. Custom giant maps... same for Empire at war...god games with mods, trainers, cheats, co-op...is the best.