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Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, continues to crack down on GTA mods, with the latest victim being a fan-made GTA 4 remaster.
Project Definitive Edition recently confirmed that its internet host has received a DMCA strike, presumably from Rockstar or its parent company Take-Two Interactive. The warning called for the removal of the GTA 4 – Definitive Edition team project, a collection of fan-created mods and patches that were supposed to dramatically improve the look of the 14-year-old game on PC.
I knew this day would come. So we got the DMCA from Rockstar (I think) for our GTAIV DE patch. Well, I guess we need to remove anything related to GTAI from the site. “
In a follow-up tweet, The Definitive Edition Project noted that only GTA 4 has been removed so far. Mods from the original trilogy remain safe on the site for the time being, but the project’s writers aren’t too sure these mods will stay. available for a long time. “Have fun while you can,” the site tweeted.
According to the band’s website, “The Definitive Edition is an ambitious project that aims to fix and improve the old and faulty PC ports of Rockstar games. The project started in 2016 and consisted of a mod pack for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City called Reborn “. It has since grown to include mods for GTA 3, San Andreas, Chinatown Wars, and other Rockstar games like Bully and The Warriors.
Notably, Take-Two only listed GTA 4 in its pull mod request. Take-Two took a similar action before announcing their own Definitive Edition of the original GTA trilogy, which, despite a disastrous version, somehow proved to be a profitable venture. This may be the first clue that a GTA 4 remaster is in the works.
In that case, Rockstar, which is actively working on GTA 6, is unlikely to take over. pre-alpha version of the game. Fans have been critical of the seemingly unfinished game, which made other developers share your unfinished projects in solidarity.
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