Rockstar alleged it was a third-party modification and had nothing to do with Rockstar – but that was far from the case and had resulted in a major investigation from Entertainment Software Rating Board (also known as ESRB). As it originally made headlines worldwide, Rockstar Games tried to push the blame to Patrick Wildenborg, who originally learned the cut feature in 2005 and made the mod public on popular modding website GTAGarage. I am sure you are well aware of the events surrounding it as it made headlines for years and still does in 2021. Let’s go way back into the early 2000s when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas officially shipped out to millions of Rockstar fans, in 2004, one of Rockstar’s biggest scandals was the discovery of Hot Coffee lying behind the game files.
This article also provides an overview of what has occurred over the last two decades and the rather sudden about-face that has occurred in tolerance towards modding. This article contains exclusive interviews with established mod developers, whose creations have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in order to get their views on the current stance of Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive. We have a lot to uncover, but hope that this article expands the voices of the modding community to a much broader audience.
