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The team behind the FiveM mod for Grand Theft Auto V have been banned by Rockstar from the Social Club for their role in creating an alternate to GTA Online. FiveM reportedly used the official GTA Online dedicated servers to create an online experience free of restrictions. These freedoms included custom levels, assets, game modes, and more, all of which are typically banned by Rockstar in the online environment.News of these bans came from the FiveM team themselves in this Reddit posting.
Thursday, at 1:50am I get an email... this email was bad news to me. Yes, I am terrible at games in general - I just play to have fun - but I would never cheat. You can see this from my stats on the social club.
It's perfectly possible that I had a lapse of consciousness and subconsciously downloaded a patched ScriptHook and remove the anti-online protection from my copy of ENT, but the likelihood of that happening is very low.
So yes, it seems that I was banned for using mods. It was single player, and that's a whole shitstorm on its own.
Wait a second...
It seems that NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutchi were also banned. Dutchi has used mods before (but a very long time ago) and (as far as I know) NTA has never used single player mods (besides creating FiveM, of course). I found this out today, not too long before I started writing this post.
I am not a developer of FiveM, I am just the mere moderator of the subreddit, but yes, I have some sort of affiliation with the mod. I was skeptical that we were banned for being contributors (in some way) to the FiveM project.
NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutchi was banned on Thursday as well... surprise surprise. I asked Dutchi what time he got the email... 1:52am. We were banned within two minutes of each other. It was certainly a manual ban [6] . This completely rules out the possibility that I was banned for single player mods - the good news is that Rockstar doesn't seem to be banning people for just using single player mods. The bad news is that Rockstar is trying to stifle the modding community.
It's perfectly possible that I had a lapse of consciousness and subconsciously downloaded a patched ScriptHook and remove the anti-online protection from my copy of ENT, but the likelihood of that happening is very low.
So yes, it seems that I was banned for using mods. It was single player, and that's a whole shitstorm on its own.
Wait a second...
It seems that NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutchi were also banned. Dutchi has used mods before (but a very long time ago) and (as far as I know) NTA has never used single player mods (besides creating FiveM, of course). I found this out today, not too long before I started writing this post.
I am not a developer of FiveM, I am just the mere moderator of the subreddit, but yes, I have some sort of affiliation with the mod. I was skeptical that we were banned for being contributors (in some way) to the FiveM project.
NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutchi was banned on Thursday as well... surprise surprise. I asked Dutchi what time he got the email... 1:52am. We were banned within two minutes of each other. It was certainly a manual ban [6] . This completely rules out the possibility that I was banned for single player mods - the good news is that Rockstar doesn't seem to be banning people for just using single player mods. The bad news is that Rockstar is trying to stifle the modding community.
Because this is a ban from the Rockstar Social Club, this also means that these mod creators cannot even play the game's single player. This also means that any other Rockstar games that are tied to their accounts are also inaccessible, including Max Payne 3.
