It's no secret that companies that host large multiplayer games online have no love for people who cheat at their games — just look at Blizzard and Ubisoft, which have been banning people who are found guilty of the offense left and right.
Well, Rockstar has also been taking the fight to cheaters, but it is going one step further with its efforts. Instead of simply banning every player who is found cheating, the GTA developer is going straight after the source and banning people who upload GTA Online glitch tutorials to YouTube.
The latest person who has been targeted by the Rockstar is GoldenGunsGames, a "verified GTA 5 YouTuber and founder of EliteGlitchers," according to the user's Twitter profile. Of course, that's all in the past now, as YouTube, backed by Rockstar and parent company Take-Two, slapped GoldenGunsGames with three strikes for eight of their videos over two weeks.
I literally feel like quitting YouTube, honestly all this hard work and effort, I'm done. pic.twitter.com/2LpfF5IJeI
— GoldenGunsGames (@GoldenGunsGames) June 22, 2016
What exactly does it mean to get three strikes? Interestingly enough, three strikes means three things that offenders can expect to come their way. First off, their account gets terminated, then, all videos uploaded to their account are deleted, and lastly, they are unable to create new YouTube accounts.
In other words, offending users can forget about uploading their old videos to a new account, because they won't even be able to create a new account on which to upload said videos. Not to mention that YouTube, Rockstar and Take-Two will definitely be on the lookout for any videos that even resemble the ones that were taken down.
Unsurprisingly, GoldenGunsGames seems to be totally unaware as to why they were banned at all, completely oblivious to the fact that Rockstar — and many fans of the game — don't want to have any instances of a lobby where a player is invincible and invisible while using guns during passive mode. Instead, they appear to be solely focused on all the hard work that has been amounted to nothing now that Rockstar got YouTube to delete it all.
Humorously enough, though, commenters on Twitter have been quite unsympathetic to GGG's plight, with some going so far as to say that GGG deserves to have their content taken down.
@GoldenGunsGames "hardwork" "effort". Good that your channel got terminated. — ile (@ilekalekai_) June 22, 2016
@GoldenGunsGames Hard work and effort teaching people how to grief others and play the game as it was NOT intended. You deserve what you got — Pressure Drop (@PressureDrop86) June 23, 2016
@GoldenGunsGames The replies on this thread... looks like you're rekt son.
— trumpi27 of #EGN (@trumpi) June 23, 2016
This isn't the first time Rockstar has banned someone who has posted tutorials on how to glitch in GTA Online, and it certainly won't be the last. Rockstar is making it abundantly clear that cheating won't be tolerated and that, if you're found guilty, you'll be banned five ways to Sunday and mocked by your peers every step of the way.
