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Hello all. The holiday season is finally here, and we have prepared a more compact summary post for you than usual. Please read on to see, what we have been up to lately. GTA VI The upcoming year will bring us the next game from the Grand Theft Auto series - GTA VI. Planned to launch in Fall 2025 on consoles, it will likely arrive on PC as well, just some months later. The second trailer for GTA VI is also rumoured to be shown soon, with some elaborate fan theories backing these rumours. Will the game be good? Only the time will tell, but looking back, there was not a major GTA game release from Rockstar Games that was bad (for the sake of this argument, let's consider the Trilogy as a minor release ). That alone makes it worth to look forward to it, and it will be also nice to re-visit Vice City similar to how we did it with Liberty City and San Andreas. MTA Status and Updates Not much to report in regards of MTA - we have been focusing on improving various parts of our infrastructure, which is not immediately visible at first glance. Still, since there are many areas that need the attention, there is a lot of work involved. Thankfully, CiBeR, Botder, Lopsi, Dutchman and others have been looking into it. Thanks to the hard work done by our Helper - FileEX, we have also refreshed the Lua syntax highlighting system on our Wiki. For a long time it was unmaintained, causing many of the recent MTA scripting functions and events to be not correctly highlighted in the code snippet examples on the wiki. This has changed though, and it should be working much better now. We have been also tinkering with our #MTASpotlights hashtag on X / Twitter. We are still exploring this idea, but nonetheless, thank you for your submissions so far. If you would like to share some media that we could promote, you can do so on our Discord, just please make sure to read the guidelines beforehand. And, naturally, there have been additions to the mod's source code now and then, bringing in new scripting functions and bugfixes. Similarly, we have been pushing those as client updates for you, also now and then. Player Counts and Other Statistics Type Amount of players Date / Time Recent peak number of concurrent unique players 24,808 players 2024.12.22 (at 18.13 GMT) Highest recorded number of concurrent unique players 52,098 players 2020.04.02 (at 18.00 GMT) Recent number of daily unique players 95,445 players 2024.12.15 (Sunday) Highest recorded number of daily unique players 185,818 players 2018.02.03 (Saturday) Recent number of monthly unique players 478,736 players September, 2024 Highest recorded number of monthly unique players 805,903 players January, 2018 For a mod for a game that is nearly 20 years old now, these are fairly good numbers. Smaller than last year, but still impressive. We are glad that you are still with us. MTA:SA version or series Percentage of players using that version or series as of 24th of December, 2024 1.6.0 99.5% 1.5.9 0.4% <1.5.9 0.1% Also, as of 24th of December, 2024: there are over 90,000 members on our Discord server, we have got 13,790 followers on X/Twitter, 58,000 users follow our Facebook fanpage , and our Steam Community group has nearly 50,000 members. --- To end this post on a high note, we would like to take this moment to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the Season and take care. -MTA Team

I am happy that you guys still giving a lot of effort to keep the game alive! I hope this game gets more and more popularity during years even tho it's an old game. For to do this, we may share our mta-in game videos on social media platforms because as you know social media is easy to get popular and if you already have a community which supports you, that makes things easier. We can share our fun moments or videos about mta in YouTube by using a common hashtag as you said "#MTASpotlights" or #MTASA Love you guys and MTA

Happy holidays!

happy xmas

Ayy I used to work on MTA wayyyyy back when it started and everyone was figuring it out. With all the reverse-engineering and hacking, coding etc it was actually a bit of an adventure. I started working on a multiplayer GTA myself because I wanted it so bad (ill equipped but determined), and ended up joining with some of the early team. Really proud of everyone getting it together and keeping it going. I remember when we first got shooting working and we were all shooting each other outside that Vice City club that was the default spawn point for a while. I'll always remember the feeling of being the first people that ever played multiplayer GTA... wanting it so bad we manifested it. - Personally I just kept programming and doing random game dev stuff, I released a game made in Unreal Engine using the voxel plugin: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079300/Goblin_Keep/ I felt incapable of supporting the game after release but I did it for the same reason at MTA, I just wanted to do it. Thanks to the team for keeping this going, who all did a lot more work on it than me