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.
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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