Take-Two orders Rage:MP shutdown, leaving FiveM alone in GTA V modding

Server owners now have a hard deadline and players have a migration to make. RAGE:MP said it will begin a structured shutdown at Take-Two Interactive’s request, with public server listings going dark on June 1 and all operations ending by August 31, 2026. GTA BOOM put the scale at 288 active servers, which means a large slice of GTA V’s fan-run multiplayer scene now has to decide what survives, what gets rebuilt, and what simply disappears.

The practical result is brutal and simple: communities built around RAGE:MP need to move to FiveM or wind down. RAGE:MP’s own message asks server owners to “wind down their operations and migrate to FiveM,” making the shift as explicit as it is unavoidable. Characters, scripts, custom game modes, rank structures, and long-running server identities may not transfer cleanly, even if the people behind them do. The closer June 1 gets, the more public-facing discovery breaks for anyone still trying to find a RAGE:MP home.

This is the latest sign that Take-Two and Rockstar are consolidating GTA V multiplayer modding into a much narrower lane. Rockstar announced on August 11, 2023 that Cfx.re, the team behind FiveM and RedM, had officially joined Rockstar Games. FiveM’s Creator Platform License Agreement says Rockstar grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Creator Services. In practice, that leaves FiveM as the only clearly authorized GTA V multiplayer mod platform under the current licensing arrangement.

The timing matters too. Take-Two’s own Rockstar news page now lists Grand Theft Auto VI for November 19, 2026, which puts this shutdown squarely in the final stretch of GTA V’s lifespan as a multiplayer sandbox. The cutback also fits a longer pattern. Take-Two and Rockstar’s fraught relationship with the mod scene stretches back to the backlash in May 2015 over the possibility of banning mods, including single-player projects, before later clarifying that modding was allowed as long as it did not threaten GTA Online.

RAGE:MP is not the only platform under pressure. alt:V announced it will shut down by July 6, 2026 and stop accepting new servers on March 2, 2026. With RAGE:MP now on a fixed countdown, the message to GTA V server owners is unmistakable: move fast, preserve what can be preserved, and do not wait until the listings disappear to find out what is left to carry over.