Rockstar bans certain words in GTA Online for CEO Organizations

GTA Online players will now face more restrictions when naming their CEO Organizations, as Rockstar has seemingly expanded its list of banned words. The latest Grand Theft Auto Online update, titled Bottom Dollar Bounties, has made countless minor changes to the game, such as changing the classes of some vehicles and patching an age-old glitch, among others.

Rockstar has listed all of these changes in the DLC's patch notes, but they've missed one particular detail. Here's everything you need to know about it.

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Naming CEO Organizations in GTA Online just got more difficult

So the new update has added censorship to the CEO organisation names… byu/7joetaylor ingtaonline

As noted by Redditor "7joetaylor" on the r/gtaonline subreddit, this new change was made with the latest DLC — Bottom Dollar Bounties. However, it wasn't mentioned in the official patch notes. It was only discovered after several players like the original poster found their CEO Organizations had their names reset.

The above user had "Drugs 'n' Stuff" as their organization name, so it can be assumed that Rockstar no longer allows players to use the term "Drugs" for their CEO Organizations. As the OP and several other users stated, it seems absurd that a game made for adults with violent crime, drug dealing, and more being common themes censors the word "drugs."

Others shared how seemingly harmless names were banned in both GTA Online and Red Dead Online, like Jerry or Nigel Thornberry (both being popular cartoon characters), but words like "Pothead" or "Stoner" were perfectly fine. User "MicroNitro" found that the word "Mnesia" is allowed on PS4 but banned on PC while "Revolutionary_Ad6695" added how a seemingly innocuous "lol" or "don't die" message to another player can get you kicked from a lobby.

Meanwhile, GTA Online players who used unique symbols and fonts to name their CEO Organizations also had these names reset, as evidenced by @Es2Ez's screenshots embedded above. However, in this case, it can be assumed that Rockstar didn't want anyone to bypass their censorship by using special fonts and symbols.

While banning offensive and racist terms make perfect sense, Rockstar's banning of simple terms for their games doesn't make a lot of sense. In fact, the censorship was already quite heavy for Grand Theft Auto Online and the recent change may have been a bit unnecessary.