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 mission which had re-created a model of GTA 6’s map in that recreation. Its creator, YouTuber Darkish Area, has opted to tug 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 seemed to be 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 stunned they did not trouble emailing me. I’d have taken it down if requested.”
“Take Two Interactive has not contacted me, however relatively, 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 Venture’, they added: “I’ve additionally eliminated the obtain hyperlinks to my mod. Despite the fact that [Take-Two] did not ask me to, however I feel it is smarter to get out in entrance of them, relatively than ready for his or her e-mail that may by no means come.” VG247 has reached out to Rockstar/Take-Two for remark.
It seems to be just like the hyperlinks Darkish Area is refferring to right here had been those that might beforehand be present in a channel underneath the neighborhood subheading on their Discord server known as “project-vice”. Stated channel now seems to have been archived or hidden. You’ll be able to, nonetheless, at present 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 mission 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 instructed IGN they had been “all the time nervous” about the potential for Take-Two motion towards their modding mission, nonetheless, additionally they steered that they noticed what they had 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 mission mod, which re-created GTA 4’s map in GTA 5 and recieved a “pleasant takedown” earlier this 12 months/
