[STEAM] Rockstar’s ‘friendly takedown’ of a free GTA 5 Liberty City mod has community up in arms

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After garnering a ton of attention over the past few days, the immensely popular GTA 5 Liberty City mod, recreating GTA 4‘s map in its successor’s engine, has been removed by Rockstar Games in what the mod’s devs have labeled as a “friendly takedown.”

The mod, called the Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP), aimed to port the map from

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4 into GTA 5 and grant it new life in a more modern engine. However, as with any GTA or Rockstar-related mod that gets any sort of attention, it flew too close to the Take-Two sun and earned itself a quick and painless “friendly takedown” request, to which the developers agreed immediately. “Due to the unexpected attention that our project received and after speaking with Rockstar Games, we have decided to take down the Liberty City Preservation project,” the mod’s creators wrote on its

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