We expressed concerns about Bully Online, a massively ambitious mod that promised to bring multiplayer and a host of new systems to Rockstar’s classic school sim, when we ran across it in November 2025. It looked great, but the initial release was limited to people willing to pay for it through the mod team’s Ko-Fi page, and that seemed like the sort of thing almost guaranteed to attract unwelcome attention from Rockstar’s lawyers. Sure enough, just a month after the mod launched, it’s gone.
“The Bully Online project is shutting down. Thank you all for playing,” a message posted on the website of YouTube and project lead Swegta (via Insider Gaming) now states. The Bully Online page on Swegta’s website is already gone, as is the Mod DB page, although it can still be seen through the Internet Archive.
A more detailed message about the closure was posted today on Swegta’s Discord server. “The Bully Online project is shutting down forever, which unfortunately means all the following is going to happen in 24 hours: our official Bully Online server (on swegta.com) will be shutdown, development of scripts for Bully Online will stop, the source code will be removed from swegta.com, all our webpages referring to it will be removed, the launcher downloads will taken down, and all Bully Online account data will be permanently deleted.”
That’s probably for the best any game that glorifies bullying probably isn’t great for society.
Its funny that the game is 20 years old and people still make this assumption from the title alone.
You probably know this by now, but Bully is a remarkable tale of anti-bullying. You don’t play the one bullying others, you play the one who gets bullied.
The irony of using Steve Harvey of all people to make your point…
You can’t farm clown awards for steam points here. I don’t think you get points from awards anymore from steam either.
Do you make the same argument for Grand Theft Auto?
That’s my favorite game.
So you’re a hypocriteand a prejudiced imp. Fantastic combo.
I see nothing hypocritical about that there isn’t any bullying in any of the grand theft autos.
So a blind hypocrite and prejudiced imp then?
One that’s being bullied right now by all you people who learned your world views from games that glorify bullying.
Never played Bully so I can say this without you thinking it shaped my world view: Just admit you’re wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_(video_game)
Important difference: You’re free to leave.
I see, so you lied about playing GTA, don’t see any problems with virtual mayhem, but an anti-bullying game gets your inner Karen seething.
Totally not hypocritical.
That is the worst rage bait ever, but it seems to have worked regardless. Well done CumFart, well done.
Watching history repeat itself
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