Rockstar was quick to clarify its position, saying it doesn't issue bans for single-player mods but is "regularly rolling out fixes for specific exploits" for online mods that enable cheating.
I hope to resolve this soon." Advertisementįurther Reading Rockstar to GTA V PC players: We don’t issue bans for single-player modsShortly after the long-delayed PC release of Grand Theft Auto V in April, many players reported receiving bans for using mods in single-player mode or using innocuous mods to change things like field-of-view in online play. "I have not done any reverse engineering or other work on FiveM that may go against the TOS. "I believe these bans may be in relation to my existance on the FiveM project," TheDeadlyDutchi wrote on the Rockstar Support forum over the weekend. The Social Club account bans mean they can't even access the single-player mode in their copies of Grand Theft Auto V, and it also blocks the use of any other games previously tied to that account, such as Max Payne 3.
On Reddit over the weekend, FiveM subreddit moderator qaisjp detailed how he and two developers working on the mod-NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutch-received ban notices on their Rockstar Social Club accounts in quick succession last week.
Our policy on such violations of our terms of service are clear, and the individuals involved in its creation have had their Social Club accounts suspended."Ī number of modders working on an alternative online playspace for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V say they had their Rockstar Social Club accounts blocked last week, barring them from playing the game or other Rockstar titles associated with the account.įiveM is an in-development mod allowing Grand Theft Auto V owners to play together on dedicated servers, separate from the centralized, semi-persistent competitive/co-operative space of Grand Theft Auto Online.
Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Update: A Rockstar representative confirmed the bans with the following statement provided to Ars: "The FiveM project is an unauthorized alternate multiplayer service that contains code designed to facilitate piracy. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.