RAGE:MP Shut Down August 31: FiveM Is All That Is Left for GTA V
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Take-Two Interactive has closed the book on one of the oldest multiplayer platforms for GTA V. On August 31, 2026, RAGE:MP shut down entirely: its owners were issued an official cease-and-desist letter, and the service was then taken offline completely — client, backend and all supporting infrastructure.
What actually happened
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive issued a cease-and-desist to RAGE:MP, a platform that for years had let the community run its own roleplay servers on top of GTA V. First, RAGE:MP developers lost access to new development tools, then, on June 1, 2026, the list of public servers disappeared from the site, and on August 31, 2026, the platform shut down for good.
In its own statement, the RAGE:MP team called it hard news for the community and urged server owners to wind down operations and move players to another platform. At the time of the announcement, RAGE:MP still had roughly 288 servers running — meaning the shutdown hit a far from empty ecosystem.
Why only FiveM is left
According to RAGE:MP’s own developers, Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive explicitly named FiveM the sole authorized platform for GTA V multiplayer modding, under their own Platform License Agreement. That is no accident: Take-Two Interactive acquired Cfx.re, the company behind FiveM, back in 2023. FiveM has belonged to GTA’s own publisher ever since, so the “only allowed platform” status is a direct result of ownership rather than an arbitrary choice.
RAGE:MP was not the first
RAGE:MP became the second major unofficial platform for GTA V to disappear in the same year. In March 2026, the alt:V platform received a similar cease-and-desist, and its shutdown was completed on July 6, 2026. So even before summer, the GTA V community lost one independent multiplayer service, and now, as of September 2026, it has lost the second. From this point on, FiveM remains the only GTA V multiplayer modding platform allowed by the rights holder itself.
What this has to do with GTA 6
This consolidation happened just months before the launch of GTA 6, scheduled for November 19, 2026, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S only. The near-simultaneous shutdown of RAGE:MP and alt:V shows that Rockstar and Take-Two are watching closely who monetizes modding around their games and how — which naturally fuels interest in whether GTA 6 will launch on PC, the platform where the mod community has traditionally been most active.
That said, there is still no official Rockstar statement about a modding policy for GTA 6 itself: the company has neither confirmed nor denied any plans regarding third-party modding of the upcoming game. What is confirmed is only the fate of existing GTA V tools — and if the RP community wants to stay on the right side of the rules, it now has exactly one official way to mod the game: through FiveM.
What this means for players and server owners
For regular players, the practical advice is simple: if a favorite roleplay server ran on RAGE:MP, check whether the team moved to FiveM — otherwise, the server is most likely gone already. For community owners, the situation is harder: moving an established roleplay project to a different technical platform means not just switching clients, but often rewriting scripts and mods from scratch for the new ecosystem.
The bottom line of this story is that Rockstar and Take-Two no longer leave any gray areas in GTA V modding. There is FiveM — an officially authorized platform that the publisher itself controls through its ownership of Cfx.re — and nothing outside of it. Whether the company will apply the same logic to GTA 6 after its release is something it has not explained yet.
Frequently asked questions
What was RAGE:MP and why was it shut down?
RAGE:MP was one of the oldest unofficial multiplayer platforms for GTA V, hosting roleplay servers. Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive issued the platform a cease-and-desist, and on August 31, 2026, the service shut down completely.
When exactly did RAGE:MP disappear?
Its public server list was zeroed out on June 1, 2026, and the full shutdown of the client, backend and all infrastructure took place on August 31, 2026.
How many servers were running on RAGE:MP before the shutdown?
At the time of the shutdown announcement, the platform still had roughly 288 servers running.
Why was FiveM specifically left as the allowed platform?
Because Take-Two Interactive acquired Cfx.re, the company behind FiveM, back in 2023. FiveM belongs to GTA's own publisher, which is why Rockstar and Take-Two named it the sole authorized platform for GTA V modding under their Platform License Agreement.
Is this the first case like this?
No. In March 2026, the alt:V platform received a similar cease-and-desist, with its shutdown completed on July 6, 2026 — RAGE:MP became the second major unofficial platform to disappear that same year.
Does this mean anything for modding in the upcoming GTA 6?
Rockstar has not officially confirmed or denied any modding policy for GTA 6. What is confirmed is only the fate of existing GTA V tools, where FiveM is now the only permitted option.