Prolific modder behind Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring VR conversions pulls all his work offline after another DMCA strike: "We'll always have the memories"

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Prolific modder behind Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring VR conversions pulls all his work offline after another DMCA strike: "We'll always have the memories" News By Kaan Serin published 23 January 2026

"Note that making the mod freely available is by no means the clear-cut solution"

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The modder behind the Cyberpunk 2077 VR conversion has pulled all of his mods offline after being hit by another DMCA strike, this time aimed at parkour action game Ghostrunner.

Luke Ross is best known as the modder behind the R.E.A.L VR mod framework, which supported VR conversion mods for around 40 different games, including Elden Ring and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. At one point the list also included GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 mods before rights holder Take-Two Interactive got involved.

But Ross was back in the news more recently after CD Projekt issued a DMCA strike against his Cyberpunk 2077 mod, with the company's vice president of business development, Jan Rosner, explaining that CDPR took issue with the fact that the mods were paywalled behind a Patreon subscription, though there wouldn't be a problem if the modder accepted optional donations instead.

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Now, in an email sent to subscribers (spotted by FRVR), Ross states that publisher 505 Games has taken similar legal action against a mod for Ghostrunner. "No mention of any terms of service violation this time," he writes. "Again Patreon automatically complied. I don't blame them; DMCA law is carefully worded to give infinite power to big companies, who only need to write on a slip of paper that they 'believe' their copyright has been infringed in order to nuke from the sky anything they don't like – and to give infinite headaches to creators like me, who instead have the only recourse of going to court, sustaining huge costs to get through the legal process."

As a result, Ross is "being forced to take immediate action" by "making unavailable all versions of the mods and also all the posts related to the wonderful work we have done here together for years, so that there will be no ground for further claims." He's also updated his Patreon page to make it clear that subscribing won't lead to access "to the 40+ conversions."

"Note that making the mod freely available is by no means the clear-cut solution that people on the Internet would make it to be, because DMCA superpowers given to big companies and payments/donations needed for complex projects like this one are two completely unrelated matters," he continued, pointing out that his Rockstar Games mods were "completely free" and were still subject to DMCA claims.

"Hopefully we'll find a way together, in the next few weeks," Ross continued. "But if we can't, we'll always have the memories of the wonderful times we spent in those beautiful virtual worlds. Oh and by the way: if you have existing copies of the mods that you downloaded here before all this drama, you will of course be able to use them indefinitely and without restriction"... as long as the relevant games don't receive mod-breaking updates in the future.

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TOPICS CD Projekt Red CATEGORIES PC Gaming PS5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch 2 Xbox One PS4 Platforms PlayStation Xbox Nintendo Kaan SerinFreelance contributor

Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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