Issues proceed to be very up and down within the GTA modding world, with the newest occasion of this involving Venture Vice, the GTA 5 modding undertaking which had re-created a model of GTA 6‘s map in that sport. Its creator, YouTuber Darkish Area, has opted to drag the newest set of obtain hyperlinks to it offline, in response to a Take-Two copyright declare on a YouTube video they’d made showcasing their work.
Darkish Area started engaged on the mod final 12 months, was sharing some screens of their progress by January, and launched what the 1.0 model of Venture Vice earlier this month. It is the set of hyperlinks to obtain the mod they shared as a part of that launch that they’ve now gotten rid of.
“Take Two Interactive has copyright claimed and eliminated my video on the GTA 6 map I made in GTA 5,” Darkish Area tweeted yesterday, March 23, referencing their video entitled ‘I lastly made a playable GTA 6 map in FiveM and single participant’, “I anticipated one thing like this might occur. I’m shocked they did not trouble emailing me. I might have taken it down if requested.”
“Take Two Interactive has not contacted me, however fairly, they’ve copyright struck my youtube video down,” they re-emphasised in an announcement on Discord.
In a follow-up YouTube video with the title ‘Take-Two Took Down My Video/Map Project‘, they added: “I’ve additionally eliminated the obtain hyperlinks to my mod. Although [Take-Two] did not ask me to, however I believe it is smarter to get out in entrance of them, fairly than ready for his or her e-mail that can by no means come.” VG247 has reached out to Rockstar/Take-Two for remark.
It appears just like the hyperlinks Darkish Area is refferring to right here have been those that would beforehand be present in a channel beneath the neighborhood subheading on their Discord server known as “project-vice”. Mentioned channel now seems to have been archived or hidden. You possibly can, nonetheless, presently nonetheless discover hyperlinks to obtain the mod through Google Drive within the description of a video titled ‘We put Leonida In GTA 5‘ Darkish Area put out about it in December 2024. It is unclear if these are hyperlinks to older variations of Venture Vice.
In response to a Discord consumer asking them whether or not the continuation of labor on the modding undertaking has now been cancelled, Darkish Area responded: “In all probability gonna cancel it on my half, however I will not cease others from taking it and transferring on with it.”
Again in January, the YouTuber advised IGN they have been “all the time frightened” about the opportunity of Take-Two motion towards their modding undertaking, nonetheless, in addition they advised that they noticed what they have been doing as being completely different to different GTA mods which the corporate has taken motion towards.
A kind of initiatives was the Liberty Metropolis Preservation undertaking mod, which re-created GTA 4’s map in GTA 5 and recieved a “friendly takedown” earlier this 12 months/