We've seen many great PC mods for Grand Theft Auto V, but one in particular captured the headlines lately. The folks at .White Team were about to finalize three years of work to port the Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption to Grand Theft Auto V on PC.

Suddenly, a few hours ago the mod's official trailer on YouTube became unavailable. The fears of many fans were eventually confirmed when Lead Programmer Mr. Leisurewear wrote on the GTAForums thread the following message:

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I know this is a hard pill to swallow, but as you may have noticed we did get contacted and we sadly have to say we are stopping this project.

So thanks guys, we were all so happy to see this, but it isn't going to happen, sorry.

He then clarified that this wasn't going to be a full port in any case.

For the record this was never going to be a "PC port", it was just gonna be the map ...

Undertaking this sort of a project with additional content ported over was never feasible, we were only gonna get a way to convert the map with both legal copies of each game and some custom scripted additional content, there was never any intention or mention to either port a story mode over from RDR to V.

Of course, this is probably just Rockstar and/or Take-Two's corporate side ensuring that Red Dead Redemption is played on the intended platforms. However, if only they had ported the game on PC this project wouldn't even have any reason to exist. For now, the only way to play Red Dead Redemption on PC is still via PlayStation Now's streaming service.

With Red Dead Redemption 2 scheduled to launch this Fall for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the question is once again whether PC gamers will have to sit this one out too.

Still, Mr. Leisurewear added that he might try again in a few years once the hype has died down. You can check another version of the trailer below (thought that might also be eventually removed by Take-Two) as well as the original project FAQ.