GTA 6 map in GTA 5 taken down for potentially spoiling the game
Following a copyright strike on their YouTube channel, a GTA modder has decided to take down their recreation of GTA 6’s leaked map.
Following a copyright strike on their YouTube channel, a GTA modder has decided to take down their recreation of GTA 6’s leaked map.
You sometimes have to wonder why GTA modders even bother, given that series publisher Take-Two has a track record for forcibly removing mods, especially any that gain too high a profile.
Despite drafting an agreement to allow for non-commercial single-player mods in 2017, Take-Two soon updated it to give itself leeway to basically do whatever it wants, resulting in a number of long-running mods, that had been following the rules, being taken down in 2021.
As such, it should come as no surprise that a recent effort to recreate GTA 6’s map in GTA 5 hasn’t been approved by Take-Two, with the creator annoucing he’s had to remove the mod.
YouTuber Dark Space initially shared their recreation of the GTA 6 map in December, to demonstrate how much larger it will be compared to GTA 5.
Last week, however, he made the map playable, allowing GTA 5 players to import it into the PC version of the game and drive around it. If you’re wondering how Dark Space could recreate a map for an unreleased game, enough details had already leaked out about it as part of the infamous hacking incident.
While Take-Two only had the YouTube video demonstrating the mod taken down, Dark Space has opted to remove all download links to the mod as well.
In a follow-up video explaining all this, Dark Space argues that mods such as his are doing more to drum up hype for GTA 6 than Rockstar and Take-Two are. At the time of writing, there has only been one official trailer for the game and that was in December 2023.
That said, Dark Space is more annoyed that Take-Two simply didn’t ask him to remove the video, since he would’ve been happy to do so.
Speaking with IGN, Dark Space says he fully expected Take-Two would come knocking once his mod became available, since the recreated map is ‘probably a little too accurate.’
‘I think my map could have ruined the surprise of their map, which I get. If you spent years building out this amazing game world just to have some YouTuber spoil the experience of the map’s shape, size, and vibe… I’d want it removed too,’ he continues.
Dark Space has also decided to no longer work on his GTA 6 mod since ‘There’s no point putting more time into something that goes directly against what [Take-Two is] willing to allow.’
It seems likely that Take-Two’s relationship with the modding community will remain fraught for the foreseeable future.
It has been claimed that the company is looking to bring user generated content to GTA 6, à la Roblox, which would encourage modding, but any such content would obviously be made on Rockstar and Take-Two’s terms.
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