By Darren Allan
There’s some great news for Grand Theft Auto V addicts, with the revelation that the OpenIV modding tool has been given a reprieve, with a blanket ban on the utility being lifted so that it can once again be used for single player mods.
Earlier this month, OpenIV, which is designed to be used to customize the game extensively – creating what are known as mods (modifications) – was hit by a cease-and-desist letter from GTA V publisher Take-Two’s lawyers in Russia, which meant the tool was completely shut down.
The reason? Some folks were abusing the toolkit to cheat at GTA V online, and the publisher is engaged in a major crackdown on such cheats.
And that in itself is not a bad thing, but punishing those building or using single player mods for their own entertainment hardly seemed fair, and led to a major outcry from the GTA fan base, including a barrage of negative reviews of the game on Steam (not to mention online petitions).
Toxic overload
Hence developer Rockstar stepped in, called meetings with Take-Two, and diffused what was becoming a seriously toxic accumulation of negative PR, promising to allow single player non-commercial mods.
Rockstar’s statement read: …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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