The makers of the FiveM mod for Grand Theft Auto 5 have reportedly been banned from the Rockstar Social Club for creating an online world similar to, but separate from, GTA Online. FiveM makes use of dedicated servers to provide an online multiplayer experience while simultaneously supporting custom levels, assets, gameplay modes, and other mods, something Rockstar does not allow in GTA Online. In fact (and ironically), one of the primary purposes of FiveM was to comply with restrictions on modding in GTA Online, which Rockstar warned in May "could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing."
The moderator of the FiveM subreddit, Qaisjp, claimed on Reddit that he, creators NTAuthority and TheDeadlyDutchi, and other "affiliated members of FiveM" had been banned from the Social Club last week. "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," he wrote. "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. 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."
Rockstar said in May that GTAV owners would not face punishment for using single player mods, but that mods affecting GTA Online were strictly off-limits. FiveM is in a somewhat hazy area as far as that goes: It's multiplayer, but doesn't make use of GTA Online. It does peripherally interact with the Rockstar Social Club as an anti-piracy measure, however, which user Ash Rogers said is what led to the ban in the first place.
"FiveM uses a Social Club hook in, it did this to make sure PEOPLE OWNED THE GAME, as a piracy protection method so people couldn't just crack the game and still get to play MP," Rogers told Eurogamer. "FiveM is the only thing out there on the GTA modding scene to do so. Because of this piracy protection check, Rockstar have got angry and started to ban people. YES, people who CONFIRMED THEY PURCHASED THE GAME!"
And unfortunately for users of the mod who have been banned, it impacts all games that rely on the Social Club, meaning that single-player GTAV is no longer available, as are unrelated games like Max Payne 3.
It's possible that the bans are unintentional—it happens—but that scenario is a whole lot less likely if they were done manually, as Qaisjm claims. We've contacted Rockstar for further information and will update if and when we receive a reply, but for now gamers are well-advised to avoid the FiveM mod altogether.
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