I bring you very upsetting news, the GTA:MP project has been abandoned and FiveM is in the process of stopping.
Take-Two (owner of Rockstar Games) sent private investigators to the homes of two GTA:MP developers and FiveM's NTAuthority. The investigators put them onto the phone to T2's senior vice president who said if they did not stop their multiplayer projects T2 would start taking legal action.
This is very sad particularly for me because having played SA:MP for many years I was really looking forward to the new generation, especially since GTA:O does not deliver that experience.
Some linksNTAuthority's account of his encounter:
So I just got a pair of PIs at my door claiming to be sent by Take Two, handing me a phone with a person somewhere in the UK or US or whatever to 'discuss how to cease my activities with regard to Grand Theft Auto', that 'they know what happened before with Activision and want to not get the lawyers involved at this time', however they 'have tested their legal standing already and are quite certain of their point' and 'aren't willing to accept any solution other than ceasing my activiites'. Oh, they also 'couldn't disclose any conversations they're having with other modification developers', didn't want to talk about general modification policy as 'it was just about my case' and admitted they 'looked through my source code'.
Fun times!
https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveM/comments/3s5rmw/pis_sent_by_take_two_at_my_door_its_more_likely/GTA:MP website:
https://gta-mp.net/Petition to allow GTA:MP to continue (don't worry, it's in English):
https://www.change.org/p/take-two-interactive-software-gta-mp-votez-pour-l-autorisation-du-mod-multijoueurIt sounds like the days of SA:MP-style mods are over, there is too much of a commercial focus on the monetisation of GTA:O at the expense of gameplay, innovation and creativity. At this point I honestly wish GTA V was just a single player game so none of this would have happened.
