Season Greetings - December, 2024

[jhxp]

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.

 

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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

[turret001]

happy xmas

[Nico834]

Happy holidays!

[Nebla]

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

[-ffs-PLASMA]

Merry Mreowmas

[koragg]

Happy holidays guys, I've spent more than a decade playing MTA

[Skynet1]

happy holidays guys

[Sensacion]

Merry Xmas

 

[Megadreams]

Happy holidays to our wonderful community!

[FernandoMTA]

Happy holidays! It's been more than a decade for me since I started playing MTA, my favorite game mod

[0xCiBeR]

Happy holidays everyone, may this new year bring joy and incredible adventures for all!