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.”
Rockstar also kills off mods that are free. I don’t even know how exactly I’m not a lawyer. The GTA V pcvr mod is one example
Yeah, fuck Rockstar. Such a shitty company. Don’t pay for their games honestly.
Don’t play their games. Pirating and playing ain’t much better when they still get word of mouth and press for their games
as long as they keep making really good games I’ll keep buying them and playing them. if they want to be dicks about their intellectual property, that’s a bummer, but at least they’re making good games