The company could be worried about mods enabling people to cheat in GTA: Online. This time around, Rockstar has added GTA: Online, which is a persistent multiplayer world that it hopes will keep people playing (and spending money) for the next several years.
These mods added to the longevity of GTA IV players continued to buy it for years after its release because they were always seeing new and interesting things that the community was creating.īut that is potentially the problem with GTA V. When Grand Theft Auto IV came out on PC in December 2008, hundreds of mods quickly added things like the capability to play as Spider-Man:
This had people playing as citizens and police, and the cops controlled by players would pull you over if you weren’t following the traffic laws. Hacker groups pieced together an online simulation mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas back in the mid-2000s. Grand Theft Auto on PC has a long history of supporting mods that added amazing features to the game. The lack of easy modding for GTA V is something that could hurt its long-term popularity - although, Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive have already sold more than 1 million copies since the game launched earlier this week. We’ve reached out to Rockstar to ask about GTA V modding, and we’ll update this post with any new information. By disabling user access to something like that, it shows just how much work the developer put into preventing user mods. In previous GTA games, the files for stuff like car handling were saved as basic text files that anyone could adjust with programs like Notepad. I can’t even access simple stuff like the. This is the most a GTA game has ever been locked down before. It might be a while before we can get into the game. “This game looks very locked down right now. “Bad news,” modder Frostav wrote on Reddit. Other modders on different forums are echoing this sentiment. They went on to write that they will only mod GTA V if Rockstar patches in a workaround or if other hackers are able to get around the encryption that prevents easy access to that data. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.
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