Take-Two orders Rage:MP shutdown, backs FiveM as GTA V modding home

RAGE:MP has been put on a hard countdown, and the message to GTA V roleplay communities is blunt: new servers are done, the public server list is about to vanish, and the platform itself is on the way out by August 31, 2026. Take-Two Interactive has ordered the multiplayer modding platform into a structured shutdown while pushing creators toward FiveM, the only authorized home for GTA V multiplayer modding under Rockstar’s platform license agreement.

The practical fallout is already in motion. RAGE:MP said no new servers can be created immediately after the shutdown notice. Its public server list is scheduled to disappear on June 1, and its end-of-support date is August 31. After that, the client, server toolkit, and backend infrastructure will no longer be available or supported, and the remaining community servers are expected to cease operations as well. For players, that means the lobbies, communities, and familiar hangouts built over years can no longer assume continuity. For developers, the clock is now running on migration, content export, and rebuilding elsewhere.

That shift lands differently because Take-Two has already taken the opposite road with FiveM. Rockstar once faced backlash in 2015 over the possibility of banning GTA V mods, but in August 2023 it bought Cfx.re, the team behind FiveM and RedM, and brought it inside Rockstar Games. Rockstar’s roleplay community update called Cfx.re the team behind the biggest Rockstar roleplay and creator communities, and the current FiveM creator platform license agreement describes FiveM and RedM as creator services that Rockstar may offer for customized or modified versions of its games.

That history makes the Rage:MP shutdown look less like a one-off enforcement action and more like a consolidation of control around a single approved ecosystem. RAGE:MP has operated since at least 2018 and its masterlist showed hundreds of active servers around the time of the shutdown notice, which helps explain why the order lands so hard across the GTA roleplay scene. Server identity, social networks, and years of custom scripts are tied to the platform itself, not just the game.

Take-Two’s message is clear: the open modding free-for-all around GTA V multiplayer is being narrowed into one sanctioned lane. For Rage:MP players and creators, the countdown that started with new-server blocks now ends with the same date everyone has to circle in red: August 31, 2026.