Rockstar Launches Official User-Generated Content Marketplace For Mods

Rockstar has launched an authoritative marketplace wherever creators tin merchantability mods.

The Cfx Marketplace, described arsenic a "curated integer storefront wherever talented FiveM/RedM creators tin stock and merchantability their work," is presently lone unfastened to a prime fewer creators, but players moving their ain servers tin take from hundreds of mods — immoderate free, immoderate not — to adhd caller maps, scripts, characters, clothing, vehicles, and much to their games.

If the sanction Cfx sounds familiar, that's due to the fact that Rockstar acquired the modding squad down the wildly fashionable Grand Theft Auto 5 roleplay servers FiveM and RedM backmost successful 2023. That came arsenic thing of a astonishment fixed the company’s combative narration with modders successful the past.

Now, arsenic portion of that relationship, prime creators worked with Rockstar to physique and proviso the caller mod superstore arsenic it rolls retired "in phases to guarantee the champion acquisition for some creators and server owners."

As 1 blessed subordinate said, the authoritative marketplace makes it "much easier to find immoderate trusted creators and hopefully much competition." "Amazing idea! Hope this volition beryllium a amended mode for some creators and server owners to scope much radical and find what they need," added another.

Right now, determination are hundreds of mods to take from, immoderate of which are free, and others, astir typically bundles, are disposable for upwards of $450. The Attractions & Parks Bundle, for instance, includes a Theme Park, Water Park, and Maze Bank Theme Bank for $137.99.

Right now, astir mods look to beryllium for GTA 5, but Cfx.re has mods for some Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, truthful we whitethorn spot much Red Dead 2 mods arsenic the marketplace expands.

Grand Theft Auto is an enduring juggernaut, with GTA 5 having sold 220 cardinal copies to date. Rockstar is yet to item however GTA Online volition alteration arsenic a effect of November's merchandise of GTA 6, but it seems apt the Cfx Marketplace lays the groundwork for a akin offering successful whatever's adjacent for the game.

It besides seems successful mentation for immoderate different plans Rockstar has for monetising GTA RP erstwhile GTA 6 comes out. GTA fans had begun speculating astir what Rockstar RP servers would look similar erstwhile the institution announced it was moving with Cfx.re backmost successful 2023. That excitement past lone accrued erstwhile fashionable instrumentalist Faheem Rashad Najm a.k.a. T-Pain teased successful 2024 that helium was moving connected GTA 6 but had been asked by Rockstar to halt engaging with RP servers similar nopixel.

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