Take Two changes terms of service for its games.

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On March 28, 2025, Take-Two Interactive and 2K Games rolled out updated Terms of Service (ToS) across their platforms. What should have been a routine legal update quickly turned into a PR nightmare. Players, modders, and even casual fans are calling out the companies for what many see as a blatant overreach.

What's in the New Terms?

The updated ToS grant Take-Two and 2K broader control over user-generated content, player accounts, and even offline gameplay. Key changes include:

  • The right to remove or restrict access to user content "at their sole discretion."
  • A ban on most forms of modding, even for single-player games.
  • Expanded data collection policies, including the right to share user data with "business partners."
  • Mandatory arbitration clauses, severely limiting players' ability to take legal action.
  • Crackdowns on players who exploit glitches, even harmless ones, and harsh penalties for modding activities.
Fans of Borderlands were particularly outraged. The Borderlands series thrived on community engagement, mods, and creative use of glitches that added replayability and fun. To now punish the very behaviors that fueled its success feels like a slap in the face.

The games on Steam including games like Borderlands 2 are getting review bombed to hell and have an user review score of "overwhelmingly negative". Also I'm pretty sure they tried this shit before with a store launcher for Bioshock and Civilisation games, years after release, that for many broke the games. I think we should all carefully consider take two future releases before we purchase in the future.

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Take Two did eventually back down and removed the store launchers from the old games they patched. Hopefully they listen here as well. Still shouldn't have to get to this point over and over again, for so little gain.
 
Shit like this is what kills the appeal of buying games on PC. All the upside comes with treachery. At least on my console i know I am in a confined space. Almost no ability to mod, but at the same time the only user data they can steal and spread like a high school rumor is just what games I play.
 
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Arkam said:
Shit like this is what kills the appeal of buying games on PC. All the upside comes with treachery. At least on my console i know I am in a confined space. Almost no ability to mod, but at least the only user data they can steal and spread like a high school rumor is just what games I play.
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Aren't you just more limited in ways you can sidestep restrictions on console? On PC I can at least pirate the games I don't want to give scumbags money for.,
 
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Arkam said:
Shit like this is what kills the appeal of buying games on PC. All the upside comes with treachery. At least on my console i know I am in a confined space. Almost no ability to mod, but at the same time the only user data they can steal and spread like a high school rumor is just what games I play.
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I'd imagine Take Two would acquire the same user data regardless on the platform. They can't steal what's in your Documents folder on PC, that can be easily exposable and they'd be sued to the ground if so.

Your preference for consoles in this instance makes no sense.
 
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Sean Mirrsen said:
Aren't you just more limited in ways you can sidestep restrictions on console? On PC I can at least pirate the games I don't want to give scumbags money for.,
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You are right. And that's what I am saying. On a console you know the prison rules. On PC you are getting the illusion of freedom sometimes.
 
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You are right. And that's what I am saying. On a console you know the prison rules. On PC you are getting the illusion of freedom sometimes.
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I suppose on PC and Steam in particular theres alot more room for players to push back. From the label overwhelmingly negative on the story page, to all the unhappy threads in the game forums etc. To modifying the code themselves regardless etc.
 
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I think modern day publishers really hate mods because they want to sell you cosmetics and micro transactions, like for currency or crafting resources like we've seen in Capcom games. While at the same time, tons of cosmetic mods out there for free, as well as cheats/resource change mods.

If they can make this pesky free stuff go away, they could provide it themselves and charge players for it.
 
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