It was all so careless and light-hearted. Folks were flinging whales around, disrupting cutscenes and generally making merry havoc in Rockstar’s open world crime thriller GTA V, when suddenly things got serious.
Several PC GTA Online players are reporting that they’ve been banned from the game, apparently for using various mods, even those that offer only cosmetic differences. This Reddit user for example posted a screenshot of the moment he was banned, allegedly for using an FOV mod.
According to a response letter from Rockstar that’s also been screengrabbed, the studio doesn’t regard cosmetic mods as cheating – the problem appears to be that some harmless additions look like something more nefarious, to whatever anti-cheat method Rockstar is using. The letter advises users to remove any third-party software before contacting support.
All in all, it would be quite nice if Rockstar could be a little bit more forthcoming with what they expect from the GTA V community – say by releasing a firm a set of guidelines that let us know what is and what isn’t acceptable.
