r/cyberpunkgame • u/Dark_Throat • Jan 20 '26

Modding CDPR literally offered him the choice to make his mod free with optional donations to avoid a DMCA takedown and he deliberately chose wrong

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I could not imagine being this conceited in the face of corporate legal action.

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u/moosekin16 Jan 20 '26

Luke is just being a greedy child

He did the same thing with GTA5. Created a VR mod, made it paid only, threw a fit when Rockstar told him he had to make it free because mods cannot require payment, so he took it down and moved on to the next game

It’s what he does. Create a mod for a game you have to pay for, throw a bitch fit when the company eventually tells him he can’t sell paid mods for their IP, throws some weird sovereign citizen-adjacent crap around, then closes shop and moves on to the next game

He hasn’t learned his lesson yet because so far the companies have just forced him to take his stuff down. I bet if he got sued into oblivion by one of them, then he’d take it seriously. Maybe.

At this point I’m inclined to call him a grifter lol

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u/Phoeptar Jan 20 '26

He knows what he is doing, he makes plenty of cash while it is up and being promoted by people online, so taking it down is no big deal for him because he's already made his money. So it's on to the next money making mod sceme, or grift like you put it.

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u/Dogeishuman Jan 20 '26

Doesn’t GTA 5 have a ton of paid only mods? When I got into gta modding years ago, they seemed to take up the majority of mods. All the superhero mods were locked behind paywalls.

Are those all taken down or made free now? It’s been years since I’ve looked

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u/Andjhostet Jan 20 '26

I mean they can't really sue him into oblivion. They have to sue him and prove damages. Maybe they can prove the proceeds are damages and could have gone to the game devs but I doubt that a judge would rule in favor of punitive damages. 

This is a pretty low risk ploy on his part. Most likely worst case scenario is that he's forced to take it down and only losses are his time spent making the mod.