GTA publisher Take-Two has a history of removing mods and even sometimes suing their creators, but even after developer Rockstar's parent company annihilated their YouTube channel, a group of GTA 4 modders still plan to release their slick Vice City port later this week.
That's the buzz around the bright-eyed GTA YouTuber community. The modders themselves, who go by Revolution Team, haven't updated their Telegram.
The Team's last post in English reiterates Vice City Nextgen Edition's January 25 release date with a YouTube trailer that collected over 100,000 views before getting smited.
Since Revolution Team is based in Russia, it's possible that it will be protected by a 2022 government decree shielding Russian companies from copyright strikes issued by "unfriendly" countries like the US.
But even over on Russian social media site VK, worried GTA fans seem unsure if Revolution Team's Vice City mod will survive Take-Two's tendency to sue. "What now?