Fan creativity is flattered by some companies. Take-Two Interactive it clearly does not like him. The company that owns the rights to the Grand Theft Auto series, now and then it suits the modders, and recently it found a new victim.
SO Vice City Next Gen Just Droppeed. IT’s An Incredible Fan Project That Carries Vice City Over Into the Rage Engine and Its Genuine Mazing How Well this Thing Playys. Pic.Twitter.COM/ZNFE2FCKPT
– Gmanlives (@gmanlives) January 25, 2025
A few years ago Revolution Team announced Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition, The mod that transfers Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in all its splendor on the Rage engine from Grand Theft Auto IV . Russian enthusiasts completely completed their ambitious project, but a day before its release at the insistence Take-Two corporation Google Shuggled their page on YouTube. Mimyltsev was upset, but not at all stopped – on January 25 they still sent Nextgen Edition in free swimming on the Internet.
However, gamers did not rejoice for long. On the 28th, the publisher again went on the offensive-this time the Telegram channel of the enthusiasts fell under the blow.
Friends, we have bad news. https://rizz-casino.co.uk/ Today, our Telegram channel received a DMCA-strik for copyright violations and literally within an hour after receiving the complaint was removed ..
At the time of removal there was a community of 9,142 people who actively discussed the project and helped each other.
Well, this is the second successful attempt to cut us off from our audience. Heavy days for our team … It is a pity that everything is going so.
And so, as users drew attention, on January 29, the modders actually recognized the defeat. They renamed their VKontakte page in Revteam (Previously, it was called GTA: Vice City Nextgen Edition), removed all links to download from her Nextgen Edition, deleted part of the video, trailers and publications, as well as disabled the possibility of commenting records. They did all this silently-the developers-amateur developers did not publish new appeals to the fans. The exact cause of all these changes remains a mystery, although gamers guess what the matter is.
It is worth making a reservation that the situation is not as clear as it might seem at first glance: the creators of the fashion gathered voluntary donations for production, and the copyright holders usually regard such things as an attempt to appeal to their IP. It is likely that it was this, and not the fact of the existence of the project, became the reason for the persecution Revolution Team.
Shortly before the disappearance Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition From free access, all this unpleasant situation commented on POBE VERMEY (OBBE VERMEIJ), original programmer GTA: Vice City. Usually Vermey uses social networks for stories about creating old three -dimensional GTA. This time he urged gamers not to be angry with the company, because it is pointless.
Take2/R* – Commercial companies. They will delete the mods that interfere with their business. Maud Vice City Nextgen Edition For GTA IV It directly competes with The Definition Edition . Liberty City Presservation Project (GTA IV on the engine gta v) will damage the likely remaster GTA IV (I don’t know if they do it, it seems to me that it would be worth it).
It makes no sense to be angry about this. This is what companies should do. At best, we can only hope that they will allow mods that will not interfere with their business. Like, for example, DCA3 (GTA 3 for DreamCast). By the way, recently they have become similar and allow such projects to live.
TAKE2/R* are A Commercial Company.
They Will Take Down Mods that Interfer with Their Business Interests.
The VC NEXTGEN EDITION MOD GTA4 Directly Competes with the Definitive Edition.
The Liberty City Preservation Project (GTA4 in GTA5 Engine) WOULD InterFere with A ..
– OBBE VERMEIJ (@obbevermeij) January 25, 2025
Mentioned We verify Liberty City Presservation Project, Recall, Take-Two "finished" recently. True, its authors describe the situation differently – softer.