Rockstar Games' Bully has been dormant for years, but that hasn't stopped the developer – or potentially its parent company, Take-Two – from seemingly policing fan-made content for it. Bully recently received online multiplayer courtesy of a mod, but the project didn't even last a month.
Bully Online, created by YouTuber and developer SWEGTA, will shut down within the next 24 hours, according to Twitter user TheNathanNS, who posted a screenshot from the mod's Discord server informing players of the situation. "The Bully Online project is shutting down forever," the message says, "which unfortunately means all the following is going to happen in 24 hours: our official Bully online server will be shutdown, development of scripts for Bully Online will stop, the source code will be removed [...], all our webpages referring to it will be removed, the launcher downloads will [be] taken down, and all Bully Online account data will be permanently deleted."
Seemingly devoid of hope for a Bully sequel, Bully Online was welcomed with open arms. The mod allowed people to join their friends for an experience not unlike GTA Online or Red Dead Online, set within the confines of the game's Bullworth Academy. The abrupt shutdown has...
