The GTA 5 Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP) was launched this month after six years of labor, recreating GTA 4’s unforgettable Liberty City inside GTA 5’s sport world. This was a severely spectacular piece of labor, managing to carry over the whole lot of Rockstar’s skewed New York and present all of it off with GTA 5’s improved visuals and audio: It even arrived with Steam Deck compatibility.
The pleasure was, nonetheless, quick lived. As is now one thing of a convention, the mod gained some traction, was coated by the normal media and unfold quickly on boards and social websites. And then The Man at Rockstar HQ seen.
The Man does not like GTA mods, particularly on this the 12 months of our lord GTA 6, and Take-Two has a protracted historical past of going after mod makers whose initiatives get just a little too shut for consolation (there have been rumours of an official GTA 4 remaster for some time now).
The modding group behind LCPP has now taken down the mod, and the next was posted on the undertaking’s Discord:
“Due to the sudden consideration that our undertaking obtained and after talking with Rockstar Games, now we have determined to take down the Liberty City Preservation undertaking,” says a publish from modder NK Jellman. “We recognize all of the help that the undertaking has obtained, and we sit up for persevering with to pursue our ardour for modding the Grand Theft Auto collection.”
The message has so far been greeted with 668 emojis of Niko Bellic, GTA 4’s protagonist, crying on the information. Angrier reactions are additionally straightforward to search out, with gamers annoyed at Rockstar (or “L-Star” as some have taken to calling it) obliterating yet one more neighborhood undertaking that did not appear to be doing anybody any hurt, and was distributed freed from cost.
“We’ve seen loads of misconceptions and theories surrounding our newest announcement and wish to make a couple of issues clear,” added NK Jellman in a later Discord publish. “This isn’t a DMCA, relatively a pleasant takedown, mutually agreed upon by all events concerned. There isn’t any negativity between us and Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive.”
Hmm. The Discord server stays energetic, although will not host any LCPP obtain hyperlinks, and the group recommends in opposition to downloading from unofficial sources because of the threat of malware.
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Well chalk one other one as much as the Take Two attorneys. GTA has had an intensive and sophisticated historical past with modding, however usually the rule appears to be that once you get just a little too near the official merchandise, Rockstar steps in. This is not even the primary GTA 4 “remaster” undertaking to be shut down, and the corporate appears particularly invested in enjoying authorized whack-a-mole with mods that attempt to polish-up the older video games (then after all dropped the extremely janky however official GTA Trilogy, nice job). With GTA 6 nonetheless due for launch this 12 months, do not count on that stance to be altering anytime quickly.
