FiveM was a really interesting MP mod for Grand Theft Auto V that caused a lot of problems as it was rivalling Rockstar’s very own GTA Online service. And unfortunately, its creator has announced that this project is no longer under development.

FiveM was a multiplayer modification for Grand Theft Auto V which aimed to offer an advanced multiplayer environment for people to play on dedicated servers with user-made game modes.

FiveM would built on the solid multiplayer framework set by the Rockstar Studios themselves as part of the RAGE engine, which has gone through rigorous testing since its first release in 2008, adding high-level customizability features.

However, as NTAuthority noted, the reasons behind FiveM’s shut down was the lack of an initial release (that was planned for a June/July release) and a lot of obstacles that could not be resolved.

The setbacks from the past 3 months have placed FiveM at a point where it simply has no market value anymore. — NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) September 22, 2015

The procedure followed for FiveM development was only ever to be successful if an initial release was done by June/July. — NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) September 22, 2015

The fact that one still is not released, and a lot of obstacles still exist, are grounds for me to shut the project down. — NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) September 22, 2015

NTAuthority also claimed that another alternative/competitor to FiveM is currently under development and may be the ideal alternative for GTA Online.

@EFOTEAM There's already another project going on that provides more classic (no AI, 'idiot' team) multiplayer – they're the main problem. — NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) September 22, 2015

@EFOTEAM Competitor to FiveM, own netcode, no AI, but large following and way better marketing. — NTAuthority (@NTAuthority) September 22, 2015

UPDATE:

NTAuthority got in touch with us and told us that the public part of FiveM is the only part of the project that is currently no longer under development, and that the base framework is still being developed.

“If you followed my full Twitter (http://twitter.com/NTAuthority) or even had a single glance at the FiveM project page (http://fivem.net/), you’d have known that the only part of the project that was ‘no longer under development’ (for the time being) was the public part of FiveM – not the base framework, which would be able to be used by anyone (as the HTML comments on fivem.net indicate); including to create exactly what FiveM originally consisted of. This measure was necessary as the amount of people on the FiveM community forums (and greater GTA community) spouting disbelief in FiveM ever ‘being finished’ (and reposting the same ‘bugs’ in the initial release — that was never meant to be, but was only officially released as the initial builds from the source code repository became slightly too popular and had massive flaws) became only a hindrance to further development.”