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Rockstar is adding a big feature to Grand Theft Auto Online this week, and they’ve prepared for contingencies for it as well.
They made this announcement last week:
There’s also a new Mission Creator coming to all available versions of GTA Online.
This in-depth and comprehensive toolkit enables you to design and publish your own Missions using sophisticated game mechanics, custom objectives, placeable actors, and much more.
We’ve also updated our Community Resources to account for these new tools and make sure GTA Online remains a fun and fair environment for everyone.
Consoles Finally Get Making Your Own Missions
It took over a decade, and years of modders making their own content on their own servers, but Rockstar finally made an official way to add your own missions to the game.
Based on their description, it doesn’t look like the feature is coming for fans who still have the game on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, or Xbox One. Rockstar ended support for those platforms, so they haven’t been getting updates since.
But this update still spreads it around for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S players. We have yet to see if the Mission Creator will allow cross platform sharing and playing, but we’ll find out later this week.
Rockstar’s Measures To Regulate Content
videotechUK shared what Rockstar has done to safeguard the Mission Creator on Twitter:
Rockstar is fully prepared to moderate the Mission Creator against bad actors attempting to recreate past real-world events, supported by a newly added guideline on Friday:
Extreme Violent Content and Gore: Sharing images and real-world depictions of graphic content, gore, or animal abuse, or recreating or glorifying real-world violent events or real-world conflicts.
How Far Will Regulation Go?
This may seem too far reaching when it comes to regulation, but maybe more context is required. Rockstar’s page on these guidelines explains their intent:
Ensuring a safe online experience for all players is paramount. We do not tolerate player behavior or player-created content that can cause any degree of real-world harm to other players, or that facilitates real-world illegal activity…
Obviously, if Rockstar’s rules banned any form of violent content in these missions, that would be harsher rules than what Rockstar sets for themselves. Even recreating missions in other Grand Theft Auto games would not be allowed in this Mission Creator.
Rockstar seems to be mostly worried about fans making missions that could hurt people in real life. Hopefully, this does mean that players will be OK doing their own Mario Maker in Grand Theft Auto Online.
This is certainly something that Rockstar needs to be careful with, so we’ll see how it plays out.
