Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "GRAND THEFT AUTO FIVEM (GTA RP): ORIGIN & SALES BREAKDOWN"

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

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Shepard, promise me you'll tell them to subscribe for any free content. Now ladies and gentlemen, you already know over here at notorious Mass Effect, we get into the gaming and music IPs that notoriously affect the masses. And safe to say specifically, when it comes to 5M, that is entirely what we're going to be getting into for this specific segment. As of course, if you don't know, ladies and gentlemen, GTA is set to be the biggest entertainment project released in quite some time. So when it comes to 5M and it exploding in popularity, safe to say it is not, it is basically not a coincidence that 5M is increasing in popularity when GTA 6 is about to come out. Because a quick little side note before we get into 5M, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you're on analytic dreams video on Spotify, but you definitely should go there right now as what is this stat? This is actually insane.

what in the actual I'm looking at the state of gaming like what is going on I'm looking at the state of gaming it's safe to say not even a 2 billion budget was a you know it wasn't even

exaggerated as far as making the game as far as them maybe potentially not receiving RRI for quite some time probably like a year or two in Rockstar standards of course you probably thought it would take time

to receive ROI on a 2 billion investment as far as GTA6. But ladies and gentlemen, GtA6 has already reportedly surpassed 5 million pre-orders with projections reaching 25 million by launch. And of course, that obviously could generate more than $2 billion in revenue already covering the game's reported development. And the game hasn't even came out yet. But that's not it, ladies and gentlemen.

Apparently, when it comes to Miami, when it comes to the launch, of GtA 6 and of course Miami specifically. Miami officials have approved a $3 million marketing deal with Rockstar Games turning the city's beaches into a real life vice city ahead of GtA 6. You know what I'm saying? And last but definitely not least, you have GTA6 curve reportedly caused 1.5 million Americans to miss work on this release day. I just know the bosses and the employers are saying, I mean the bosses and CEOs,

are saying to themselves right now. I just don't like it, man. You know what I'm saying? I just don't like that shit, man. They don't like that at all. Go take care of your kids, man. That's what they're saying to their workers right now. Like, you don't want to take care of your kids, all right?

Bet that when November 19 come around, safe to say. You know, I'm not going to say my dad's occupation, right? I may have did a little. You know what I'm saying? I may have did a little, you know, I wasn't proud of it, but I feel like my dad needed to know. I was like, hey, you know what I'm saying? Dad. Shepard.

No, I'm going to let them know. Dad. November 19, you know, just be on the lookout for a couple things. I know. I need help, bro. I need help. So when it comes to November 19, safe to say a lot of bosses out there are going to be wondering why the workers are not coming to work. November 18th and to the 19th and to the 20th is probably going to be one of the least productive days in human history. As you look at getting back into the estimate,

economics, economist, economist Jose Garcia, Montalvo, suggests that November 19th launch for GT6, of course, could cost a U.S. economy around $1 billion in lost productivity. What in the actual? Shepard. You know what I'm saying? Just look at the state of gaming.

Like, what is going on? So speaking of lost productivity in human society, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to get into GTRP. As of course, people have put countless hours into rising up the ranks in GTARP, which reportedly, not reportedly, more commonly referred to as 5M or no pixel, you come to realize that the timeline between 5M and Rockstar, it hasn't always been so peachy, right? Rockstar was looking at the rise of 5M back in 2014 saying to themselves, I just don't like it, man. You know what I'm saying? I just don't like that shit, man. They was looking at 5M and the rise of fame, because if you don't know,

5M originated from the community driven CFX.R.E slash citizenfx project with the framework dating to around 2014 and 5M becoming more prominent around 2015. Rockstar saw that, and they said to them, themselves. I know that ain't who I think it is. Rockstar and also the parent company take two with all the $40 billion. They still looked at the little guy and said to themselves. I know that ain't who I think it is.

So guess what, ladies and gentlemen. Yep, you guessed it. They sparked the lawsuit. As of course, when Rockstar dove into banning accounts, calling it in a quote-unquote, unauthorized alternative unauthorized alternate multi-player service, end quote, tied to piracy concerns. And then, of course, when they had investigators go into the community and find out what actually was being generated as far as revenue. Because if you don't know, even with me, you know, trying to keep my journalistic due diligence

intact, a lot of the revenue is hard to find. I mean, I looked at a plethora of sites. Of course, you can guess certain. amount of money, certain amount of revenue being made from the size of a RP server. But GTA themselves had to send private investigators. They had to ban certain accounts just to get an inclination of what and how big the notorious mass effect of GTRP was. So the point where 2016 to 2021 RP exploded even more with no pixel once again.

And of course, 5M concurrent players briefly outpaced official GTA online on Steam. And of course, Rockstar is once again saying to themselves, I know that ain't who I think it is. As you probably see on the Steam store how 5M is currently the seventh most played game on the platform. Once again, technically 5M is not a game. It's a client for the game. So technically I'm considering a GTA5 because, of course, you do need a legitimate up-to-date GTA-5 copy, a PC copy, to even hop on 5M. So I'm just going to call this GTA 5 online more commonly RP.

So anyways, when you look at the Steam count, as you can see right here, it is officially listed on the Steam platform of having 113,000 concurrent players 24 hour peak of 200,000 in an all-time peak four months ago of 221,000. Now, why is that apparent in what I'm talking about? It's because if we're going to get into the background, the origin of 5M, you have to talk about how roughly. Rockstar was explicitly against the rise of a community-driven mass effect in the gaming community. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why November 22, Rockstar had no choice but to allow non-commercial RP servers that do not interfere with official online. But that wasn't it, ladies and gentlemen. August 2023, Rockstar acquires CFX.R.E. I know that ain't who I think it is

which included 5M plus redm and when you look at the supporting the supportive aspect of Rockstar instead of fighting the community it's almost as if they said to themselves you know what if you can't beat them join them on some KD type B you know what I'm saying?

All right my fault I ain't you know I mean the random KD straight that's on me so anyways if you wonder how much money 5M was bringing in, let me just give you this statistic as far as take to later framing a reportedly $20 million deal as joining the scene ahead of GTA 6 UGC. Now, of course, does this tell us the entire snapshot on how much money GTA RP is bringing

in or 5M specifically? Of course not, because it's very private. And even now, it's even more private because we technically do not know how much money 5M is bringing in in totality. But what we can do is be Hall of Fame pocketwatchers. So that's what we're going to do specifically in this segment. As I do want to break down the origin of 5M. I know a lot of y'all probably lost as far as what it's about, as far as how it operates.

There's a lot of unknowns about GTRP in the 5M from people who don't have PCs. Because if you look at the PC aspect, it's more complicated. Objectively speaking, it's more complicated. It's not like I'm trying to say, oh, it's simple. You have to go through some hoops to hop on the 5M servers. Obviously, it's not rocket science, but for console players, they're probably looking at 5M not knowing what it is at all. They don't know what the 5M is.

So that's what the segment is for. So with the origin out of the way, Rockstar and 5M officially made up, and that is why you see the official numbers on Steam as of right now. So with that being said, 5M is a multiplayer modification framework for GTA5. So you need the actual GTA 5 game. It's not a stand-in. It's not a standalone game. You can't download 5M and be like,

hold up now. Why am I not playing GTA-5? It's just a modification framework. And I'm going to tell you what it modifies right now. As of course, custom vehicles, maps, weapons, scripts, clothing, jobs, slash economy. Yes, it gets deep, ladies and gentlemen. And one of the videos I wanted to plug was this one right here.

Let me see if I can find it. Shout out to Hazard. Oh, yeah, I'm playing it right now. I mean, I knew I was playing it, but I have multiple. videos in my playlist. So shout to Hazard. You know what you got practice. What you appreciate? Hit the like button. You know what I mean? No, it's crazy. So right here he has a video on how to play GTRP. Of course, I'm going to detail it in this segment. But I just wanted you, I just wanted to give you another video in case you want to dive deeper even after this because we're going to get to

a lot when it comes to 5M. So grab your favorite snack, your favorite drink. Ladies and gentlemen, we're getting into 5M because of course the increased popularity for 5M is a direct representation. of the hype that GTA 6 has garnered over time. So that means said, Favium specifically is supportive of the legacy and enhanced edition of GTA 5. So GTA 5 can be owned through Steam, Epic Game Store, Rockstar Games, Launcher, Microsoft Store, et cetera. Basically, all you need to know in lamest terms

is Favium, aka GTRRP, is a Windows PC only. There's no native PlayStation, no native Xbox or Linux 5M client I don't know I'm tripping Linux can be used to run servers but the primary client is downloadable I downloaded from 5M.net

So for console players out there I mean you just add a look you know what I'm saying if you want the GTARP if you don't have a PC Who need to do? And we beat me folks It's safe to say you won't be able to beat them folks

because you won't be able to play GTARP without a PC So anyways how it essentially works is of course players launch five film which detects their gta five installation so you actually need a copy of gta five it's not like five em came out it was like oh we'll give you the game for free no because rock star would have definitely got them out of to paint if that was the case basically is an addition to gta five similar to a lot of other pc games it's basically a modding type of it's just a modification five film is a modification

Yeah, with that being said, you need a base GT5 game. You browse available public slash private servers. You select the server. You download that server. And now you download the required resources. And it's very streamlined as far as the process. So this may sound complicated. Not only am I showing the video, analytic dreams video on Spotify, but I'm also detailing

it as far as explaining how you can get into it. And then after that, you enter your customized version of GTA5. You progress according to that servers. specific rules and systems. We're going to get more into that in a second. Because of course, when you look at the popular frameworks for a lot of the customizations, you have ESX legacy, you have QB core and Q Box. When it gets back to that in a second, that's for more of the in-depth connoisseurs of GTRP that may want to know how to create a server. We're going to talk about that as well. So when you're looking at RP-specific systems and why RP is so fun, it's because you can customize it to

whatever you like and that is why rock stars specifically partnered with them and of course they came out with a whole video to show you uh just how far rp can go as far as 5m so with that being said here's uh rock star officially getting involved with gtrp by working with no pixel once again analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio the sun is rising and many los santos residents are already hard at work while some are just starting their day Others are still finishing their evening at the city's brand new casino. What are you up to? Okay, I may have to turn this down.

I did not know they have music in background. What the world? Hopefully is a non-copyright music. The Blaine County Sheriff's Office has carried out... Once again, this is all in GTRP. This is all customized made by the actual community. So this is not like some rock star addition. This is all community base, which makes it so important to note.

Contraband, chemicals, and a suspicious amount of cash were found at the scene. Witnesses say a daredevil was spotted flying above the altercation. So if you ever wonder why people have such high expectations for GTA 6, just look what the community is doing with the base Gt8. Who later crashed landed on San Andreas Avenue. While some hear sirens, others see opportunity. Meanwhile, leading mayoral candidates addressed residents today, denying recent reports of corruption in City Hall. This is all customized and made by the community, once again. Patience and understanding amidst a thorough investigation.

Here in Los Santos, we are proud of our beautiful city. Cadet, this is a goddamn disgrace. Like, looking at this from a rock star perspective, I can understand why you went with the whole, if you can't beat them, join them. because this is amazing. You know what I mean? When people look at the GTA-6 Netflix Extended Review, which I still say

is one of the best gameplay reviews I've seen in quite some time. But if your community is capable of this, then yes, you've got to go to extra mile when it comes to your official presentation of the upcoming GTA. And the incredible people who call this home. I was told to say I have an alibi.

From days of the factory. Tonight's at our fabulous entertainment venues. Whatever you hold. Hope to find? You can find it here. Sensible investment opportunities. And extravagant indulgences. If it's an orgy or an art sale, I'll be there.

You said what? There are plenty of ways to make it big. Welcome to the Pixel Casino, VAPs. And even more ways to lose it all. Oh, yeah, that's definitely not, yeah, that's definitely copyrighted music. Let me turn that down right quick. Yep. That's a phenomenal trailer.

All right. You know, Spotify, don't play that. So anyways, as you can see, at the bottom is the biggest stunt. You know what I'm saying? They got so big. Rockstar is basically like, if you can't beat them, join them, and they ended up partnering together.

So the reason why I showed you that is because that's not the only thing that people enjoy about GTRP. Of course, when it comes to the gameplay loop, there's, I mean, in comparison, it's unlimited amount of interactions and exploration you can have in GTRP. There's really no fixed completion time, no matter what server you choose. Of course, there's ways to rise up the ranks, but similar to GTA online, the vanilla version, you can play the game for as long as you want to because a lot of the fun factor, a lot of the enjoyment comes from people making those storylines, people hopping into certain servers and really enjoying the roleplay aspect, hence the name.

And then of course, falling deep into the lore, especially when you feel like you are a part of a humongous community. As even though 5M has exceeded six figures as far as concurrent players, it doesn't mean that everybody's in one server. There's multiple servers. You can find a server that's fitting specifically for you. and when it comes to the best servers on GTRP, I did have a list.

I think some of the best ones is, of course, you have Gary's Mod slash Darkrp. You have Minecraft realms custom servers. I'm probably going to put this up on the screen as I talk about it. So these are the biggest communities you've wanted to hop into it as far as a GTP. No, I'm tripping. I mean, that's, yeah, I'm tripping. That's a little different.

Let me see if I could find. The list I was talking about, that's the biggest community driven in the game play, in the gaming community. But as far as, oh, okay, here we go. So you have no pixel, of course, my fault. So the top RP platforms is no pixel. You have GT World. You have Lucid City. You have Grand RP.

You have Eclipse. And then you have Prodigy. So, of course, for beginners out there, do, like, I'm going to keep repeating this because I know this is probably the confusing. part of it. All you have to do is install 5M on Steam or 5M. Dot net, own a legal GTA file copy, right? And then just join a public slash no white list server, whether it's Lucidity, RP, no pixel public, etc. And then you will begin being a smaller character in the world. But of course, after you read the rules, watch certain, uh, um,

starting let's just say call out orientation once you go through the orientation of this specific server read the rules and then you start as a civilian with a simple job and then of course you work your way up so that's one of the main things that a lot of people enjoy about GTRP and of course the one and only Kassanet hopped on the GTRP not too long ago and I do have a clip when it comes to him showcasing what the enjoyment factor is as far as GTRP so here is Kossinat right here you got a son Yeah, yeah. Really, really?

Yeah, my son, he's 16, yeah. Let me pour you a little drink, though. Hey, y'all, y'all pay attention to the guy. Y'all play attention to the actual premise of GTRP. Hey, don't, don't be, you can go, hey, come on now, you know what I'm saying? All right, my fault, they get it, but, you know, y'all, y'all, pay attention to the plot. Play attention to the plot. 16, who's the dad?

Huh? What he said? So me, stepfather? Yeah. Yeah, you wanna be a step daddy? Really, really? You guys. So this is the whole script of Kaisenna being pulled Basically being backdoor, right?

This is the Tileu effect, you know what I'm saying? Shepard. All right, my fault. You know what I mean? When it comes to being back door, the main thing Kaysenad was showcasing was that he was following a storyline into the point where he became a whole snitch. So he had a whole GTRP server, you probably already seen it. but this is some of the clips I wanted to play from it because this is like towards the end of it I believe where he officially became a snitch and you know he kind of put the people who backdoored him in jail so with that means it is the clip right here my boy

you did a good fucking job you did a good thing today you hear me yes sir hey that boy was snitching hold this down hold down your reward man oh my god thank you sir oh my god thank you sir there's uh fellas you got a family to take care of man I I I could respect that man I got people I want to take care of too man thank you thank you but for valise I go take this to me back right now man what type book if you ever want an opportunity a paid opportunity to inform to bring us know something similar like today you go out there you get to know people you know nobody really knows you're you're you're a ghost you know what I mean okay ties to nobody here you ever want to drop us a little information that leads to an arrest that's not the last $50,000

Damn, boy, you know what I'm saying? This would be a young thud's favorite game, you feel me? But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? So, of course, ladies and gentlemen, that is one of the top content creators in the field playing GTRP. I just wanted to show you a couple clips from that just to showcase the enjoyment factor

from why people not only enjoy playing it, but enjoy watching it because of the storylines that evolve. And the, I'm not going to say strict guidelines because, I mean, you could break character a little bit, I think, but you really are supposed to like role play. Like you're supposed to be your character through and through. But if you mess up, it's not like, oh, your whole account get deleted. You basically, you know, make sure you stay in character. So anyways, when looking at the revenue side, of course I told you I'm a Hall of Fame

Pocket Watcher, right? So typically, the revenue is made in the service from cosmetics, priority queue, extra characters to live so custom vehicles but it's not required so don't think you're going to hop on 5m and they'd be like oh 50 dollars to join the server there's multiple servers out there that's for free obviously there may be some that's charging right but it's not like there's not servers available for you to actually join so anyways and then of course you look at the endgame jobs as far as the customization aspect and we're not going to stick too much on that because you know it's just the regular nine to five jobs that you're doing at the beginning

beginning of the server, which not every server is the same. So it's really dependent on what type of server you join. So another thing I was wanting to, aside from just talking about the overall impact of 5M was, of course, when you look at these type of community-driven notorious mass affecting events in the gaming community, I mean, it's happened before. We've had Gary's mods slash dark RP, which is more of a sandbox plus RP cities. There was Minecraft with realm slash custom servers. There was SA-hapy, which was the GTA San Andreas multiplayer. And then, of course, you had Daisy that started as an Armour 2 mod.

You come to realize that. And then, of course, you have Counter Strike, which is currently the most play game on Steam. You know what I'm saying? So, you look, well, excuse me, Counter Strike 2 is the most play game on Steam. But of course, you know, you have to have one to have two. I think they get that. So anyway, so as far as the counter strike, it started off as a half-life mind. So one of the things that this is showcasing along with GTRP is just that when you exercise group economics, you could cultivate real change in the gaming community.

Imagine at 2014 and 2015 if CitizenFX just completely bended and folded for Rockstar and stop having. having the multiplayer framework for the vanilla gta 5 version imagine if they weren't aware of group economics and how these companies are really serving you as the masses so really y'all make the rules and people don't seem to understand that because of brainwashing i'm not trying to get on my conspiracy or a tinfoil hat but this is like real this is like a real discussion if we One person, right, has all the money in the world, but they make that money from you as the masses. And y'all are like two, 500 people, right? Two to 500 people in that community, right?

What's stopping y'all from all being like, hey, we want this to change. And until we do this, we're not paying you or we're not doing things that could pay you. And we're going to do that for like 15 to 30 days. Imagine the type of change that one person will implement that's pro-consumer for the community. So that's when when people talk about group economics and someone would be like, oh, that's the, you know, Rockstar got a billion dollars. You can never take them down. We can never make them change the ways.

You know what I mean? It's happened before. And I think the evolution of GTARP and 5M specifically is a great example of that. So another thing when talking about GTRP as far as the numbers aspect, 5M has rivaled or exceeded GTA5 a plethora of times. Right now, it's currently the most consumed. product on Steam. Now, once again, it's not the game, but it is a multiplayer modification, which means that the official numbers is coming from people that's actually playing GTA Roadplay aside,

compared to the GTA vanilla version. So I think, of course, 5M has exceeded and the student has surpassed the master as far as showcasing how to make a phenomenal Grand Theft Auto experience. Because say what you want, but if we just had the base GTFA story Rockstar would not have had have been as profitable as they were with GTA 5 the reason why I was so profitable is because of GTA 5 online and how GTRP ran with the multiplayer modifications in the PC community some could say that the PC community impacted Rockstar's success so much that it is asinine that we do not have a

PC launch a PC product of GTA 6 at launch because Some can argue PC community is what made GTA5 so lucrative. So for a rock star, to treat them as if, oh, we'll get to y'all. You know what I'm saying? We'll get to y'all when we feel like it.

We'll make a product for y'all when we feel like it. We'll make a PC port whenever we feel like it. It's kind of ascent when you look at why GTA 5 was actually profitable and popular in the first place. It was solely because of the PC community. Not any other community. this is why this is a whole deep dive into 5M.

5M, I'm not going to say save GTA because of course GTA Online, the vanilla version had to exist for 5M. But the PC community took GTA Online and gave it a life of it and created more life in the sense of revenue for Rockstar and of course enjoyment factor for the masses.

And that was solely because of the PC community. So not to glaze them too much. But I wouldn't be surprised if people actually hold out on playing Gt86 because they want the PC version. I want to be surprised if that actually happens. Because if you know the history of GTA5, really the PC community, I'm not going to say save the game like it was a flop, but definitely made it into the mammoth that is today

as far as one of the best-selling games of all time. So anyways, I think it's basically it, ladies and gentlemen. I think some of the other things I was wanting to get into was basically for the more nerdy technical people out there that wanted to create their own servers. So I actually have a little tutorial. Not tutorial, but a little, you know, have a little snapshot right here. How to make a server.

I made it a lamest term. So you know what I'm saying? You ain't got to praise me? You know what I mean? I mean, okay. All right, all right, Driskey. Give them some praise. All right, you ain't got to do all that, but definitely make sure to rate this five stars.

So if you was wanting to be a connoisseur to the point where you wanted to make your own GTA RP server, this is how you make it? Now, ladies and gentlemen, the reason why I'm putting the notes up here because I don't know what, some of this stuff, I don't know what it means. I ain't never made a GTARP server. You know what I'm saying? so I just wanted to put this up so you could take a screenshot hold on let me make sure I'm not blocking it so you can take a screenshot and use this later if you ever wanted to make an actual server once again some of the videos that showed in the playlist um I would look at these as well as far as you know

getting started so there's a reason why I have like playlist while I'm talking about certain things as far as segments is because one it helps to see it but also this is more of a tutorial style segment as far as telling you why 5m is so big how to get into 5m as far as a player and this is how to make it make a server as a creator so anyways with that being said you can take a screenshot all you have to do to make a server i say all you have to do like it's not this is kind of it look it look a little you know look a little complex anyways own a gt5 copy right plus have a cfx.r account get a free license key on the cfx keymaster download the fx server and uh fx server artifacts docks dot 5m dot net run tx admin pick a recipe qb core or esx host a vps slash game host open port 30 one

and 30,120, wasn't the actual 301-200, something like that. Boy, I told you this is, hey, this is nerdy. I told you you could take a screenshot. And add job slash housing scripts one at a time. Monetize only via T-Bex, cosmetics slash Q, not pay to win. So that means it said,

ladies and gentlemen, when it comes with me breaking down, 5M like a kilo, Amali Cyrus. I mean, when it comes to me breaking down, 5M as one of the greatest entertainment products of all time it's because it is. You know what I'm saying? So of course this was long due.

I'm not going to say long overdue, but this was, you know, a long time coming as far as me talking about this because of course this is the cover. GTA 6 is the cover of this episode. So it was only right in an episode with GTA is the cover because of their tremendous extended look

combined with Netflix. It was only right that I dove into 5M as it's not like oh i'm getting into an archaic system you know what i'm saying it's not like we're talking about somebody who's past or prime 5m is still the seventh most purchased product or most consume the most engaged with product on the steam platform so with that being said i think it's basically i think i covered everything ladies and gentlemen so yeah with that being said click my link to my bio to follow me on my social medias and of course if you're on spotify let me know what is your favorite aspect about gt rp and why