'This means that, while our team haven't received a takedown notice, we opted ourselves to say goodbye on our own conditions, and that effectively now all our official uploads are taken offline. 'Due to the increasing DMCA takedowns against various GTA San Andreas map modifications, it is with a heavy heart that we must announce that we decided to preemptively take all remaining instances of GTA United, including its predecessors VC2SA and LC2SA, down,' the modders said in a post titled 'Final Chapter'. Mindful of this, the makers of GTA United have pulled the mod offline. And though no one's entirely sure why Take-Two has enacted this now (it has yet to comment), some speculate it's either something to do with GTA Online's recently-released summer update, or perhaps a remaster or remake project that will see older GTA games released on current-gen systems.

Even HD texture projects such as Vice Cry were targeted.įrom what the modding community can gather, it looks as though Take-Two's lawyers are scouring modding databases for terms such as Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. Mods such as GTA: Underground, and the 15-year-old project, GTA: Liberty City, were hit.

Rockstar parent company Take-Two has issued a raft of takedown notices for GTA map mods in recent weeks. It remained available ever since - until now. Five years later, in December 2012, GTA United 1.2 was released. Then, in late 2007, the beta for a combined effort called GTA United was released. The beta for 'Liberty City 2 San Andreas' came out soon after. The first beta of what was then known as 'Vice City 2 San Andreas' came out in early 2007. Work on the free, non-commercial mod began in 2006.

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