US EditionOnline Mod for Rockstar’s Classic Bully Is Abruptly Taken Down After One Month
The Bully Online mod will delete all data and cease development after one month, with the lead developer promising a public explanation amid speculation about Rockstar's new mod marketplace.
- On January 14, the Fat Pigeon Development team announced Bully Online will shut down within 24 hours, removing servers, source code, webpages, launcher, and deleting all account data.
- The Bully Online mod began as a volunteer project when volunteer modders united at the end of last year, while Take-Two Interactive has a history of clamping down on fan projects but later acquired the FiveM team.
- Fat Pigeon Development team wrote `Coming with sad news today,` on Discord while lead developer SWEGTA said he hopes to upload an explanatory video and promises a statement on January 21.
- Onlookers noted the puzzling selectivity of the takedown as Rockstar Games' policy excludes single-player mods but covers multiplayer, leaving questions why Bully Online was targeted over San Andreas Multiplayer.
- Some players expect more mods to be shut down with the CFX rollout, alleging the new marketplace lets creators sell mods and put pay‑walls benefiting Take‑Two Interactive.
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Bully Online Mod Creators Insist Shutting the Project Down 'Was Not Something We Wanted'
Cast your mind back to the end of last year, and you may remember we reported that a group of volunteer modders had united to develop an online mode for Rockstar's Bully (also known as Canis Canem Edit in some parts of the world). Fast-forward just a few short months later, however, and now the Bully online project is "shutting down forever."Bully was a humorous action game that put players in the role of high school outcast Jimmy while attendin…
News from HD Tecnología. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. The project seemed to aim to give a second life to one of Rockstar’s most beloved games. Carefully, without pirated files and demanding the original game, Bully Online sought to avoid legal problems from day one. Still, it did not reach. The ambitious multiplayer mod ended up lasting much less than expected. A little more than a month after its launch in advance access, th…
Bully Online shoved into a shutdown locker, as the modders behind it say that's "not something we wanted"
A group of modders who got multiplayer servers running for Rockstar's schoolyard mischief simulator Bully late last year have suddenly pulled all traces of their creation offline. The project's been shutdown about a month after release, and thus far its creators haven't offered an explanation as to why, beyond emphasising that this outcome wasn't what they hoped would happen.
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