Rockstar prepares for the Roblox-ification of GTA 6 by launching an official mods marketplace, with one bundle costing just under $500

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Rockstar has launched an official mods shop, Cfx Marketplace, for "every server and every player" to hand over their lovely loot (thanks, GI.biz). The news comes three years after Rockstar's 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re, a Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption modding team, which also runs the roleplay servers FiveM and RedM.

If you're thinking "hold on a minute" that's probably because you remember a time when Rockstar and Take Two weren't so happy about modders: Indeed the publisher accused FiveM of hosting code to "facilitate piracy", and banned three of the main creators from Rockstar games.

Jason Duval and a friend from Grand Theft Auto 6. They're standing side by side looking at the man's phone and seem surprised by what they see.

For launch, the team has partnered with a curated list of creators, which Rockstar says it worked with while building the marketplace. Some of the listed mods are free, while bundles can cost several hundred dollars. The "Activities bundle", for example, includes the likes of bowling, billiards, and bungee-jumping, and will set you back a cool $467.99.

The new marketplace can be seen here, and will inevitably be seen as a dry run for the next iteration of GTA Online. GTA 6 is launching into a vastly different ecosystem than GTA 5 did, and enormously popular platforms like Fortnite and Roblox are arguably Rockstar's greatest competition: both of which have their own ways for creators to monetise and players to buy.

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Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."

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