Not playing any GTA games, but I just do some testing.
And it seem like it is Take Two blocking TM IP address, because the traceroute look fine for me.
CODE
3 10.55.192.63 182 ms 184 ms 189 ms LAN Address *
4 64.71.150.17 193 ms 203 ms 204 ms United States, California, Los Angeles, he.net AS6939 10ge3-8.core1.lax1.he.net
5 65.19.151.98 190 ms 202 ms 231 ms United States, California, Los Angeles, he.net AS6939 level3-as3356.10gigabitethernet3-6.core1.lax1.he.net
6 4.69.211.181 251 ms 264 ms 264 ms United States, New Jersey, Newark, level3.com AS3356 ae-2-3602.ear4.Newark1.Level3.net
7 4.14.218.78 259 ms 259 ms 270 ms United States, New Jersey, Newark, level3.com AS3356 TAKE-TWO-IN.ear4.Newark1.Level3.net
8 * * * *
So for compare, I go to this website
https://tools.keycdn.com/traceroute for checking the traceroute on other side, sg.
CODE
Singapore
Start: 2019-07-26T22:12:42+0000
Loss Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 128.199.191.253 0.0% 4 5.7 7.3 0.6 21.0 9.3
2.|-- 138.197.250.210 0.0% 4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.1
3.|-- 138.197.245.2 0.0% 4 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.1
4.|-- 120.29.214.49 0.0% 4 0.7 0.9 0.7 1.1 0.2
5.|-- 180.87.98.38 0.0% 4 180.2 180.4 180.1 181.1 0.5
6.|-- 180.87.12.2 0.0% 4 191.3 191.3 191.2 191.3 0.0
7.|-- 180.87.15.26 0.0% 4 177.8 177.8 177.7 177.9 0.1
8.|-- 4.68.62.105 75.0% 4 171.9 171.9 171.9 171.9 0.0
9.|-- 4.69.211.181 50.0% 4 249.4 249.4 249.4 249.4 0.0
10.|-- 4.14.218.78 0.0% 4 236.6 236.6 236.5 236.6 0.0
11.|-- ??? 100.0 4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
So both reach the same final IP address that respond to traceroute, or TCP(port 80) traceroute.
But TM IP address unable to open that website, while SG one can.
I can conclude that someone is using TM network and performing something like DDOS or hacking? to the Take Two server, so they just block the IP range for safe?
Unless you want to say that, TM is not blocking ICMP or TCP, but just web browsing traffic to Take-Two Interactive server.