Game News He cheats on GTA 5 and gets fined in real life
More than 9 years after its release, GTA V continues to sell several million copies worldwide, persisting in attracting more and more players despite the passing years. A victim of its success, many cheaters have infiltrated the online multiplayer mode, better known as GTA Online. As they say, “not seen not taken” until the day when it could be very expensive.
The hazards of success
With a new milestone of 170 million copies sold worldwide last November, Grand Theft Auto V, in other words GTA V for friends, is undoubtedly the spearhead of Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games. Since its release in September 2013 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, its popularity has continued to climb over successive console generations until its recent release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S last March, and going through a PC version in 2015.
But the title owes its success above all to GTA Online, an online multiplayer mode built on a persistent world (that is to say a virtual world that never ceases to exist) and which includes all the gameplay elements of the game. solo. Unfortunately, such a success has some hazards like the many cheaters who are also in the game, and the famous Infamous mod which managed to slip through the meshes of anti-cheat devices until 2018… Since then, it’s an investigation in the hands of the Australian justice system which therefore followed its course and of which we now know the main accused but also the sanction imposed.
The price to pay for cheating
During the investigation, one name stood out: Christopher Anderson, the developer of the mod in question. After confiscating his equipment (laptops, tablet and mobile phone) for in-depth examination, the Australian court has rendered its verdict and finds him guilty of copyright infringement towards Take-Two Interactive. Indeed, Christopher Anderson notably used several code elements from GTA V to develop his cheat software.
For the alleged facts, the Paypal account of the accused on which he received the benefits of the mod was locked. Moreover, where it does not come out too badly, it is by mutual agreement with the American studio that he is also ordered to pay a fine, corresponding to damages, amounting to nearly €82,000. Decidedly, Take-Two Interactive is well and truly determined not to let anything pass after this leak affair which shook the video game industry last September.
