The FiveM community have understandably been upset by the suspension. The mod isn't a multiplayer mod in the traditional sense of the idea - it does not change Grand Theft Auto Online.

FiveM is a mod client for GTA 5 that can be used for joining various unofficial Roleplaying (RP) servers on PC. In fact, some of the best RP servers for this Rockstar Games title are hosted on FiveM.

Cfx.re makes the FiveM and RedM tools that enable GTA V roleplay servers, and now its team is a part of Rockstar Games. Cfx.re makes the FiveM and RedM tools that enable GTA V roleplay servers ...

"FiveM is a mod that works online, but it doesn't modify anything in the [core] online experience. It does mod online code, and it does utilize online things, but it does not affect [GTA:O]." ...

The FiveM mod has changed the way players engage in Grand Theft Auto V by enabling multiplayer gameplay on customized dedicated servers. Server owners can download and use the FiveM scripts on ...

Rockstar has made the surprise announcement that it’s now officially working with the modding team behind the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto 5 roleplay servers FiveM and RedM.

FiveM will give modders dedicated servers to play online, completely independent of Rockstar’s own online servers. Via these servers, they will be able to play with any mods they want.

Just yesterday, the makers of Grand Theft Auto 5 mod FiveM, which offers a multiplayer mode outside GTA Online, had their Rockstar Social Club accounts suspended. As Kotaku reports, Rockstar today ...

It looks like Take-Two went far enough to send hired muscle in the form of private investigators to intimidate one such modder. GTAV modder ntauthy, who's responsible for GTA V's popular FiveM mod ...