If Grand Theft Auto 5 is neither more nor less than a huge caricature of the United States of America which has seduced millions and millions of players, some communities may have felt hurt by some elements of the Rockstar title. Games and did not hesitate to make it known on social networks. For this, the developers have actually decided to rectify the situation, and it's nice!
Rockstar Games quietly removes content deemed transphobic
As we told you, some communities were hit by certain sequences of the game, and more particularly the LGBTQ+ community which did not hesitate to express itself through the Out Making Games association , especially since the very famous movement of #MeToo.
It was last September that she asked the starred firm through an open letter to purely and simply remove from GTA 5 certain content deemed transphobic , thus giving a more than pejorative and caricatural image of trans people, all having was relayed by the famous Kotaku site at the time of the facts.
If no response had been given by the developers since, it is to everyone's surprise that the association has just announced via an official press release that the elements deemed transphobic have indeed been removed from the next-gen version of GTA 5 , version available only on PS5 and Xbox Series.
Although Rockstar had no comment at this time, the association was quick to thank the developers for this gesture, although we still do not know at the time of this writing whether or not it This is a response to their open letter from last year.
And for GTA 5 the original version?
Regarding the version published in 2013, for the moment no changes have been made or mentioned, and there is no indication of such changes to come. Nevertheless, it could be that PC players can take advantage of these corrections since, according to the latest rumors, GTA 5 next-gen version should offer a PC release soon.
However, at this time, it is only a rumor, but still coming from the ESRB . We can therefore expect an announcement from Rockstar shortly!