'We have always appreciated the creative efforts of the PC modding community and we still fondly remember the awesome zombie invasion mod and original GTA map mod for GTAIV PC among many other classics.

On May 7th, 2015, Rockstar issued an official statement revealing they would not ban players for using single-player modifications.

Following the change, many players falsely reported that the company had banned the use of single-player mods, however the majority of them were online cheaters. Rockstar Games appeared to update the end-user license agreement (EULA) for Grand Theft Auto 5, which stated that players could not use modifications. In addition, the OpenIV modding tool was updated, allowing people to modify ingame files. However soon after release, a script plugin was added allowing people to add new scripts (e.g spawning of rare vehicles in SP, new garages). Modding continued for GTA IV, ranging from script mods to new cars to even better looking ENBseries mods.įollowing the release of GTA V, many people believed that due to file encryption made by the new format, modding would be unable to blossom for some time, including the head of the ENB project. The game was subsequently re-rated as an adult game and pulled from shelves in many retail stores. The mod sparked a significant backlash from politicians, including Senator Hillary Clinton who proposed new regulations concerning the sale of video games. In July, a mod titled 'Hot Coffee' was released, which allows the player to play a normally inaccessible mini-game featuring animated avatars engaging in sexual intercourse with the protagonist Carl 'CJ' Johnson (shown below). After it was released, many script, car and plane mods were released, including the now-famous ENBseries graphics modifier.

However, the main memetic proliferation of modding came with the release of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in June 2005. By the time GTA: Vice city came out, modding had advanced so much people could create easy ways to add cars and even combine entire game maps. Modding began to pick up by the release of GTA 3, where people could recreate real-life cars in 3d, in addition to adding new scripts. Modding began proliferating with GTA 2, the second installment of the series, and was mainly new textures for in-game cars. It is currently unknown what the first mod was for GTA.

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