People also use mods to grant themselves infinite money, which lets them play in a way Rockstar didn’t intend. ‘GTA Online’ mods can be used for good or evil They can be used to troll or “grief” these innocent bystanders by auto-killing them or turning the environment against them. But as the lawsuit notes, mod menus also affect non-modded players’ experience. Evolve grants users godlike powers like cloning themselves, controlling the weather, and raining weapons from the sky. Like several similar mods, it lets players change basic elements of the game world while the mod is running.
Last week, Take-Two filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the makers of a mod called Evolve, the latest in a years-long fight that’s gotten mixed reactions from inside the GTA Online community.Įvolve is a paid GTA Online mod menu (or trainer) that’s been running since 2017.
But GTA Online’s publisher is still going after people who enable cheating (as well as other modding options) in the game. Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto Online, which launched over five years ago, isn’t the studio’s newest online game - it was upstaged by Red Dead Online last year.
