Bully On-line, the formidable mod that introduced multiplayer and extra to Rockstar's traditional faculty sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not one thing we needed'
We expressed considerations about Bully On-line, a massively formidable mod that promised to convey multiplayer and a bunch of latest techniques to Rockstar’s traditional faculty sim, once we ran throughout it in November 2025. It appeared nice, however the preliminary launch was restricted to folks keen to pay for it by the mod workforce’s Ko-Fi web page, and that appeared just like the kind of factor virtually assured to draw unwelcome consideration from Rockstar’s attorneys. Positive sufficient, only a month after the mod launched, it is gone.
“The Bully On-line undertaking is shutting down. Thanks all for taking part in,” a message posted on the web site of YouTube and undertaking lead Swegta (by way of Insider Gaming) now states. The Bully On-line web page on Swegta’s web site is already gone, as is the Mod DB web page, though it may well nonetheless be seen by the Web Archive.
That stated, I reckon we will determine the broad strokes: The whole annihilation of the Bully On-line mod, together with elimination of the supply code and an all-but-explicit assertion saying the workforce was compelled into it, completely screams cease-and-desist letter, very doubtless of the heavy-handed type. Rockstar and mum or dad firm Take-Two Interactive had a repute for that kind of factor again within the day, at one level reportedly sending personal investigators round to modders’ houses to, uh, speak to them about it.
Which is not to say they’ve something towards mods particularly—in actual fact they appear fairly smitten by them, underneath the fitting circumstances. Rockstar purchased the makers of the foremost FiveM and RedM mods in 2023, and have now launched its very personal official mods store.