Mods like LSPDFR, which transform GTA V into a law enforcement simulator, required OpenIV. OpenIV was also used to produce machinimas based in GTA V, since it allowed for camera controls not implemented in the included game. PCGamer notes that modding fans have taken to Steam to vent their disapproval only 21 percent of the 23,000 reviews left for GTA V in the past 30 days are positive. Not all mods are banned (trainers still work in single player), but OpenIV’s strength was its ability to manage hundreds of mods at once.
Mod communities tend to keep a game alive and in the public eye much longer than it might otherwise be, and this very much includes GTA V. But Rockstar has previously been supportive of the modding community, and this C&D clearly pissed off a lot of long-term players. There’s supposedly no evidence that OpenIV interfered with GTA Online, which hasn’t really seemed to need any help from modders when it comes to being a rampant hellhole of cheats and hacks.įew would argue Take-Two doesn’t have the right to control its games and the modding situation in any way it pleases. This explanation hasn’t set well with many modders, who have noted that OpenIV was strictly a single-player mod system.
