GTA V: Cheat Tool Developer Must Pay $150,000 to Take-two

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/08/2019 08:56 AM | source: | 48 comment(s)

A US court has ruled in favor of Take-Two in a case against a developer of a cheat software for Grand Theft Auto V. Jhonny Perez must pay the publisher the maximum fine of $ 50,000 in damages.

Take-Two Interactive last August files against a claim of copyright infringement through the development and dissemination of a cheat tools for GTA V (benchmark review here). The software called "Elusive" enabled, among other things, the generation of the in-game currency GTA-Dollar in the online mode of the game and had a comprehensive menu for various other cheats such as infinite ammunition, the spawning of any vehicle or teleportation. The options were often used by cheaters to make life difficult for other players in GTA Online.

The software was sold at prices ranging from $ 10 to $ 30 on the Internet, how much money Perez has made, is still unknown. The defendant did not respond to any requests and did not defend himself against the allegations. This omission was assessed by the court as a confession of guilt, as can be seen from the judgment (PDF).

Over 500K Alleged Damage

The damage compensation of $150,000 was the maximum for such offenses. Take-Two initially sought an out-of-court settlement but decided by the lack of cooperation from Perez to take action. According to the publisher, cheats with the software caused damage of at least $ 500,000. On the one hand, GTA Online's reputation was damaged by cheaters, and on the other, the software made the purchase of virtual GTA dollars against real currency superfluous.

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sverek

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#5637015 Posted on: 02/08/2019 10:16 AM

Good. Hopefully more cheat devs realize that messing with on-line gaming has consequences.

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#5637020 Posted on: 02/08/2019 10:25 AM

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#5637029 Posted on: 02/08/2019 10:44 AM

Now if any game dev / publisher

*cough*

could go after the creator of the artificial aiming hacks that would be great thanks.

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#5637054 Posted on: 02/08/2019 12:01 PM

I typically hate siding with a big corporation but this is a win for honest gamers. Much like drug dealing though, I don't see this verdict scaring away other hackers in the future. It's "easy" money.

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#5637071 Posted on: 02/08/2019 12:46 PM

Yup EA get your head out of the Sand. I have not played BF V in days, because of the cheat problem.

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#5637083 Posted on: 02/08/2019 01:09 PM

R* obviously cares, a lot of FPS shooter devs / publishers don't.
Too bad nobody cares to go up against Battlefield cheat suppliesers, they've been in the business for at least 10 years, same homepage, same forum, same guys, no legal action by EA.
It used to be the same with COD when I still played that franchise.

People openly brag about using cheats in EA games, I was playing Battlefront II up until fairly recently and the amount of times I saw blatant cheating with added 'bragging about it' was just unbelievable.

Same for BFV, just go on youtube and there are a tons of videos of exactly the same thing.

EA is a cancer, and hopefully, their recent financial troubles are just the beginning of much bigger problems for them.

They are the antithesis of how one properly treats one's customers.

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#5637084 Posted on: 02/08/2019 01:10 PM

Hopefully it will be a better place now, I've seen far to many hacks there almost on every server I joined..

But what baffles me the most is why do I keep getting alone on the server after few min.. is it another hack thing? Or is my account weird now that my persona is boosted by one hijacked hacker - it got stolen and now I got it back with few billion dollars and lvl 500+

XD

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#5637089 Posted on: 02/08/2019 01:20 PM

Although no punishment brings back the moments of lost relaxation and entertainment, this news brought a little joy to my heart.
It should be like this since ... Always.

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#5637118 Posted on: 02/08/2019 02:53 PM

Good to hear...

BTW, all cheaters should be burried alive. Period.

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#5637119 Posted on: 02/08/2019 03:00 PM

I've got no sympathy for pirates who hacks game files and players who cheat.

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#5637120 Posted on: 02/08/2019 03:02 PM

I still don't understand the point of online cheating. How is that any fun? How is it rewarding? Who are you trying to impress? More importantly, why would you spend real money to cheat in the first place, especially if the game has MTs to make gameplay easier without the threat of being banned?
The less "sandboxy" a game gets, the less it makes sense to cheat online.

Too bad nobody cares to go up against Battlefield cheat suppliesers, they've been in the business for at least 10 years, same homepage, same forum, same guys, no legal action by EA.

Ironic, isn't it? Seems they do anything they can to earn money without actually improving the game code itself, so suing cheat suppliers is right up their alley.

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#5637121 Posted on: 02/08/2019 03:03 PM

Won't find any tears shed here for cheaters who think nothing of ruining peoples online expereince, and no doubt in todays gaming they are also making money out of said cheats.

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#5637133 Posted on: 02/08/2019 03:24 PM

Cheat's on GTA V is the reason why i haven't installed the game and played it in a year and a half

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#5637159 Posted on: 02/08/2019 04:09 PM

I still don't understand the point of online cheating. How is that any fun? How is it rewarding? Who are you trying to impress? More importantly, why would you spend real money to cheat in the first place, especially if the game has MTs to make gameplay easier without the threat of being banned?
The less "sandboxy" a game gets, the less it makes sense to cheat online.

Ironic, isn't it? Seems they do anything they can to earn money without actually improving the game code itself, so suing cheat suppliers is right up their alley.
They don't like the pay to cheat ratio obviously :rolleyes:

; I don't advocate cheating online but microtransactions only breed the mentality that it's okay.

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#5637172 Posted on: 02/08/2019 04:37 PM

I don't care for cheaters, but i feel like the courts are not the place to take care of this. I worry about the precedent it sets. Next, trainers for single player, then all mods in general, then lawsuit because we don't like the way you play this thing you bought from us. You will pay for it, but you won't own it.

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