Originally Posted by
debbfar
Game Crashes after permanent Ban try it and see.
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PS R* can do the hell they like until people stand up to them stop buying their games pirate them.
Show me how to pirate online and I'm all over this lol.
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Direct from R*:
"We have always appreciated the creative efforts of the PC modding community and we still fondly remember the awesome zombie invasion mod and original GTA map mod for GTAIV PC among many other classics. To be clear, the modding policy in our license has not changed and is the same as for GTAIV. Recent updates to GTAV PC had an unintended effect of making unplayable certain single player modifications. This was not intentional, no one has been banned for using single player modifications, and you should not worry about being banned or being relegated to the cheater pool just for using single player PC mods. Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing. It also bears mentioning that because game mods are by definition unauthorized, they may be broken by technical updates, cause instability, or affect your game in other unforeseen ways."
So not sure wtf if up with the SP bans....
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Found on Forbes....
"Earlier this week, GTA 5 players were thrown into a panic when they discovered what they thought was a clause in the game’s license that made modding the game in any way a bannable offense. As it turns out, the section was verbatim the same as in GTA IV, a heavily modded game without issue, and today Rockstar has stepped forward to say outright that they have no problem with single player mods in the game.
“Recent updates to GTAV PC had an unintended effect of making unplayable certain single player modifications. This was not intentional, no one has been banned for using single player modifications, and you should not worry about being banned or being relegated to the cheater pool just for using single player PC mods.”
GTA IV was famously modded to no end for years, but now with GTA 5’s significant multiplayer component in the form of GTA Online, there’s been an urban legend that Rockstar is cracking down hard on the mod scene. They’ve done their best to clear that up today and say that any bans based on single player mods were accidental.
Hopefully this will shift this recent “Rockstar hates mods” narrative, which led some to speculate that Rockstar would be the next test case in Steam’s new paid mod store, which was why things seemed so restrictive. Perhaps that was up for discussion at some point, but given the disaster that was the Skyrim mod store, I think we definitely will not be seeing any paid GTA 5 mods in the near or even distant future.
Some players still are upset that Rockstar isn’t allowing dedicated servers that would allow people to play modded games with friends or strangers, but that’s where GTA Online’s presence looms large. That is essentially how things worked in GTA IV, but Rockstar isn’t going to create an online version of their game to directly compete with their own, which they’re hoping to use as a money-making vehicle via microtransactions. If suddenly an online version exists where mods not only give players ever car, weapon, house, etc, but also lets them do a ton of other insane and fun stuff not found in GTA Online, that’s going to impact the world they’re trying to build. Even single player mods could do that to some extent, but I think it is a good idea that Rockstar is compromising and allowing those to exist without issue."
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Gamespot:
"GTA 5 Not Banning Players for Using Single-Player Mods
Here's Rockstar's official stance on mods.
After largely staying silent on the matter, Rockstar has finally issued a statement regarding the use of mods in Grand Theft Auto V on PC, with the company claiming it isn't banning players for the use of single-player mods.
"We have always appreciated the creative efforts of the PC modding community and we still fondly remember the awesome zombie invasion mod and original GTA map mod for GTA IV PC among many other classics," Rockstar said in a post on its website today. "To be clear, the modding policy in our license has not changed and is the same as for GTA IV."
A new patch was released for GTA V last week that broke support for Script Hook V, a tool used for running mods. Despite not being mentioned in the patch notes, some believed this was a deliberate attempt to curb the use of mods, which are not officially supported.
However, Rockstar chalks this up to "an unintended side effect" and claims it hasn't banned anyone for using single-player mods.
"Recent updates to GTA V PC had an unintended effect of making unplayable certain single-player modifications," the company said. "This was not intentional, no one has been banned for using single-player modifications, and you should not worry about being banned or being relegated to the cheater pool just for using single-player PC mods.
"Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing. It also bears mentioning that because game mods are by definition unauthorized, they may be broken by technical updates, cause instability, or affect your game in other unforeseen ways."
While some mods are used to cheat online--something Rockstar says it continues to fight--most of them are harmless.
Rockstar also noted it's taking steps to prevent videos from being published online that help players to game the system to earn extra money, duplicate cars, and so on. The company has updated its policy on publishing videos of its games online to note that "anyone who posts videos that encourage and promote ways to cheat your way towards gaining illegitimate RP or counterfeit in-game money or duplicating in-game items without having earned them may have their videos flagged for takedown with YouTube."
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