Judge issues injunction to block GTAV trainers Menyoo and Absolute - Sensationalist Headlines

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-take-two-grand-theft-auto/u-s-judge-blocks-programs-letting-grand-theft-auto-players-cheat-idUKKBN1L12NS NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday awarded Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O), the maker of the “Grand Theft Auto” series, a preliminary injunction to stop a Georgia man from selling programs that it said helps players cheat at the best-selling video game. Take-Two had accused David Zipperer of selling computer programs called Menyoo and Absolute that let users of the “Grand Theft Auto V” multiplayer feature Grand Theft Auto Online cheat by altering the game for their own benefit, or “griefing” other players by altering their game play without permission. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan said Take-Two was likely to show that Zipperer infringed its “Grand Theft Auto V” copyright, and that his programs would cause irreparable harm to its sales and reputation by discouraging users from buying its video games. Stanton also said an injunction would serve the public interest by encouraging Take-Two to invest more in video games and was appropriate because of the “high risk” that Zipperer, who claimed to be unemployed, could not afford damages. The judge dismissed an unfair competition claim against Zipperer, who according to court papers lives in Ellabell, Georgia, west of Savannah. Take-Two had accused David Zipperer of selling computer programs called Menyoo and Absolute that let users of the “Grand Theft Auto V” multiplayer feature Grand Theft Auto Online cheat by altering the game for their own benefit, or “griefing” other players by altering their game play without permission. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan said Take-Two was likely to show that Zipperer infringed its “Grand Theft Auto V” copyright, and that his programs would cause irreparable harm to its sales and reputation by discouraging users from buying its video games. Stanton also said an injunction would serve the public interest by encouraging Take-Two to invest more in video games and was appropriate because of the “high risk” that Zipperer, who claimed to be unemployed, could not afford damages. The judge dismissed an unfair competition claim against Zipperer, who according to court papers lives in Ellabell, Georgia, west of Savannah.

Take Two is sitting here legislating the P2P security hole closed instead of, y'know, not releasing a shitty insecure console-designed multiplayer experience on PC where installing a hack is as easy as dropping a single DLL into the GTAV program folder. That tells you everything you need to know about their business practices and ethics, if you somehow needed more evidence at this point.

Isn't Menyoo SP only though?

Menyoo is not, except like, the public demo versions and stuff. OpenIV, related mods to it and your average scripts are SP only.

Ah wait, there is a separate version of the trainer that is made for SP.

Rockstar are dicks and their multiplayer is horribly made because these trainers even work at all since the server doesn't verify anything, but it's still good that these trainers get shut down. You can't have a business model based on directly interfering with another business.

There is no server, aside from login and matchmaking. GTAO is P2P and the "server" is a mesh of client peers. Whatever your client says is happening is what happens on the other clients. I'm assuming RDR2 and GTA6 are going to have the same kind of shitty online experience so until I hear otherwise my hype for anything R* is zero and T2 is on my shitlist. RIP my love affair with Firaxis.

Take-Two can blow me. They don't give a shit about the 'multiplayer experience', they just give a shit that it was cutting into their Shark Card profits. Menyoo opened up a lot of silly possibilities relating to outfits, car stuff, and generally silly events, and I'm sure if "you can use it to get money" didn't exist nobody at Rockstar would've batted a fucking eyelash. Fuck these vultures.

There will never be official dedicated servers for GTAO. That ship sailed when GTAV PC launched with GTAO being virtually a 1:1 port of the console edition, meaning hackable as shit. R* would've needed to completely rewrite how the networking works, and that's an expensive and time-consuming process when Take 2 almost certainly looked at it and went "but what's already there on consoles is working, right?" There was no way they were going to blow a whole bunch of money rewriting the networking after the game released on PC. The game sold stupidly well already, and Shark Cards were raking in the cash. Yeah, sure, they should have and it would've saved them a lot of hassle with hacking and would've pleased a lot of PC players. But they didn't, because they already have everyone's money and those Shark Cards were already paying for more cocaine and supercars than any executive could need. Shark Cards taught them the wrong lesson, and it's pretty retarded how GTAO's actual playerbase have demonstrated themselves to be as dumb and consumeristic as the parody vision of America depicted in the GTA games. They have another chance to let us down with RDR2 and then with GTA6, and their Shark Card piggy bank is so full I'm afraid it's all but inevitable, which is why I'm preemptively ignoring that shit entirely until I see proof they've built dedicated servers for at least the PC releases. If it isn't there at launch it's never happening, and if it isn't there I don't give a shit about it. On a slightly different topic, it's brilliantly ironic that a game that is literally about being remorseless criminals running out of control and stealing property is so aggressively restricted and policed and hyperaggressively monetized.

With the amount of money that comes out of GTA O they could at least have the common courtesy of not making it a technical disaster. Like the lobby system sucks. Finding missions is basically impossible. The game spams you with phone calls once you reach a certain point about missions you either don't want to, or fucking can't do. Features just stop working if you look at them funny, among a whole host of like a billion other issues that make it seem like an unfinished Early Access game rather than a released title

Fuck, Absolute is the mod menu I use. Hopefully he’ll find a loophole. Those menus cost a pretty penny (however are useful as fuck)