If you’ve ever wanted to spend somewhere in the region of $67/£50 to turn GTA 5 into a fishing simulator, today’s your lucky day. Rockstar-partnered GTA roleplaying server operators Cfx.re – the folks behind FiveM and RedM – have launched the Cfx Marketplace, a store where you can buy a bunch of GTA roleplaying mods, some of which are free and some of which seem pretty damn expensive.
According to its announcement post, the Cfx Marketplace is designed to server as “a curated digital storefront where talented FiveM/RedM creators can share and sell their work. Featuring purchasable props, scripts, maps, and much more, there’s something for every server and every player.” So, something along the lines of Bethesda’s various Creations/Bethesda.net initiatives, where modders’ works are hosted somewhere that has the official seal of approval, rather than third-party modding sites.
Let’s see what you can grab to trick out your GTA 5 experience he…wait. It’ll cost me how much to turn GTA into Euro Truck Simulator 2? $67.19, which is just under £50, for modder Lixeiro Charmoso’s Trucker Simulator. To be fair, it’s clearly a detailed truck simming experience and getting such things running on a GTA roleplaying server probably isn’t easy, but as someone who’s not familiar with GTA roleplaying mod prices, woof. For context, the base version of ETS2 will set you back £16.89 assuming you don’t buy it in a sale. It’s currently in such a sale, lowering the price to £4.22/$4.99. American Truck Simulator, meanwhile, is exactly the same price sans DLC.
A GTA roleplaying mod which turns the game into a fishing simulator will set you back the same price as the truck sim mod, while a bundle by another modder which allows you to manufacture meth, cocaine and weed runs to $131.99/around £98 altogether. That said, there are some less expensive or free mods on the store too, such as one that gives every car realistic fuel consumption, so you have to stop to fill up regularly.
On the one hand, you’d hope that buying these from a Rockstar-affiliated store would at least guarantee you getting the bang for your buck you’re promised, something a payment made to a third-party site or random person in a Discord server doesn’t necessarily provide absolute security of. On the other, those prices aren’t cheap, and it’s rather ironic to see Rockstar/Take-Two’s relative about-face after years of warring with various GTA modders end up in something like this.
That’s not to mention the other elephant in the room at the moment when it comes to whether you might be open to spending cash on a service backed by the company behind GTA 6, even if it’s not clear how much of a cut – if any – said company get from Cfx Marketplace purchases.
