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Following on from this morning's news that Take-Two had shut down OpenIV, Steam users have taken it upon themselves to voice their concerns directly, tanking Grand Theft Auto V's store rating with a flood of negative reviews. OpenIV was an essential tool that unlocked the files of GTA V, GTA IV and Max Payne 3, allowing modders greater access to the game and paving the way for things like conversion mods.
Take-Two has been heavily policing and shutting down promising mods since the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. However, this time around, the publisher essentially killed off the source, as OpenIV was so widely used by mod makers. This has led to many GTA V owners accusing Take-Two of outright killing the modding scene in one swing.
Now, the game's recent review rating on Steam is ‘Mixed' after previously being listed as ‘Mostly Positive'. Beyond that, the amount of negative reviews on Steam has almost hit the 50,000 mark. Many of the most popular negative reviews list the OpenIV issue as the key reason for the negative review and have thousands of upvotes.
Whether or not this will make an impact on Take-Two's decision remains to be seen. However, at this point, Take-Two seems pretty intent on ridding its games of modding entirely, likely in order to capitalise on new multiplayer components to games.
Rockstar has issued a statement of its own regarding the OpenIV shutdown: “Take-Two's actions were not specifically targeting single player mods. Unfortunately OpenIV enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody. We are working to figure out how we can continue to support the creative community without negatively impacting our players.”
KitGuru Says: One of the key reasons I think the community feels so betrayed with GTA V is that there was simply no warning. Mods have been successful and hugely popular on PC for all Grand Theft Auto games and Take-Two never took this hard stance against it. Now all of a sudden, they are shutting down community content and it is honestly really disappointing for everyone. I get that GTA Online needs to be more secure but there must be a better way of doing it. How do you guys feel about the OpenIV shutdown?
Things are going bad for that franchise. It’s the sunset of GTA… I will miss San Andreas, cuz that was the last GTA I played, and I am never buying GTA 5, it seems…
Take 2 drove off the “brain” of the franchise and now kills the modding scene.
well, franchise is dead at this point… I pledged for Star Citizen. That’s my “GTA” now.
Another 4 years to play your GTA 5**
Well, of course they are gonna shut it down, can’t have the great modding scene doing better work that the actual devs now can we? By putting out quality addons and such for the single player that was promised by R* before the game even launch all those years ago, yet to this day there hasn’t been a single dlc for the story mode. But there have been many great mods.
Well the pc version is just basically hackers and a toxic community these days
What you talking about? I am already playing it 😀 I got an org… and it’s fun!
GTA Online is shit anyway, I’d much rather the fun of mods than the mess they call multiplayer…
Time to pirate take two games from now on.
Spread the word 😀
Rockstar are too controlling, build a game and let people do what they want with it, learn from Valve who sees the value in mods because they come up with ideas that they might not of thought of themselves which can improve the game of future revisions of them.
One big reason not to buy it. I was waiting for sale, but I’ll just save my money. Mods are quite useful to make game last years and years.
openIV had absolutely nothing to do with the multiplayer/online side of GTAV, so their bullshit about cracking down on it to prevent cheating was a complete lie. as the exec’s there said recently, the only thing they care about is people spending MORE AND MORE MONEY on their bullshit shark cards, they see any single player mods as lost money.
Everybody complaining about this but it doesn’t affect or alter the game in any way, like a bunch of spoiled babies spitting their dummies out.
People leave negative reviews for something like this is basically abuse of the steam review system. The game itself hasn’t changed in any way so neither should the reviews.
It’s beyond pathetic peoples response to this.