What is roleplay (RP)?
On an RP server you don't just play a match: you play a character with a life, a job and rules inside the game world. Cops, taxi drivers, lawyers, mobsters… everyone stays in character. In GTA V, RP (via FiveM) became Twitch's biggest phenomenon with servers like NoPixel.
The signals (confirmed)
1) August 2023: Rockstar/Take-Two acquired Cfx.re, the team behind FiveM. 2) September 2025: official collaboration with NoPixel — NoPixel V comes to the Rockstar launcher with explicit backing. 3) April 2026: Rockstar posted four “Creator Platform” openings (NYC, London, Leeds) asking for deep knowledge of “Roblox, Fortnite, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok” — the team includes FiveM, RedM and the Cfx Marketplace. 4) That Cfx Marketplace is already live: an official paid-mods storefront, Rockstar's first monetised modding economy.
The rumour: ROME (“SixM”)
Trusted dataminers (Tez2 and others) uncovered internal Rockstar APIs in 2025 under the “Soundstage” codename (soundstage.scapi.rockstargames.com), attributed to a Rockstar Online Modding Engine: the alleged official modding/RP platform that would succeed FiveM for GTA VI — what the community nicknames “SixM”. Equivalent references exist for RDR2. Rockstar hasn't confirmed it: solid rumour, not an announcement.
What's missing (unconfirmed)
Rockstar has not announced native roleplay in GTA VI, third-party servers, console RP, or GTA VI multiplayer dates (Nov 19, 2026 brings the campaign; online comes later). Any “GTA VI RP server” you see today is a community PROJECT getting ready for that future — exactly what you can publish below.