Streamers Adin Ross and FaZe Banks Plan Crypto ‘GTA 6’ Server—Would It Be Banned?

Popular kick streamer Adin Ross said he intends to make a crypto-infused adapted server Grand Theft Auto 6 With Gaming Influencer and Faze Clan CEO and co-founder Richard “Faze Banks” BengtsonAs soon as the bright -awaited title is shelves.

But the plan can be doomed from the start.

“When GTA 6 falls, I and Ricky will make the biggest server together,” Ross said during a live stream on Monday. ‘And I promise you, it will be completely crypto. Everything pro-crypto about it. It’s going to change the game. ”

Banks also suggested that the server would have an in-game crypto economy that is fed by ‘a newly made coin’, while Ross said that the couple ‘would put a lot of money in it’.

However, if history is something to visit, the server would probably be forbidden – here is why.

In 2022, Rockstar Games, the maker of the GTA franchise, an article published Explained that player-ranked servers on Grand Theft Auto Online (and Red Dead Online) Could no longer use cryptocurrenciesCrypto assets or NFTs in any way.

At the time, users GTA 5/GTA Online had carried out “Role-Playing servers” with fan-made changes to the PC game. Some of these servers implemented NFTs And crypto in the server as a way to add weight to in-game assets, or offer exclusive benefits for players.

In response to Rockstar that prohibits crypto use, a Gulf of GTA servers was forced to close.

This included Chicago rapper Durk “Lil Durk” Banks, who had launched an NFT-oriented GTA server called The Trenches. Lil Durk’s only family gaming organization claimed to have been contacted by the legal adviser of Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive.

That said, there are dazzling rumors That GTA 6 can get a fork in the way of Rockstar’s anti-crypto-sentiment. Already in 2021, speculation was distributed that would be the coming game in-game bitcoin rewardsAnd that crypto payments can be called in.

But both rumors do not seem to be substantiated, and Rockstar still has to comment on the subject with regard to GTA 6. Others believe that crypto will simply be the butt of the joke in the story mode of the game, which is a larger fit on the road That the series has repeatedly focused on pop culture and society over the years.

Take-Two Interactive had put his finger in the cryptotaart via mobile publisher Zynga, who acquired it in 2022, because the NFT Mobile Game developed Sugartown. At the time of the deal, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said specifically that he believed there were “web3 opportunities” That the companies can tackle better.

At the end of 2024, however, the Crypto gaming team of Zynga spent the company with its projects, as a result of which a New company called D20 Labs So the team could dive deeper into the world of crypto gaming.

Based on Rockstar’s current attitude towards crypto-asset, it seems likely that Ross and Banks are unable to operate a GTA 6 server fed by Crypto as soon as the game is released later this year. But things can change-ever crypto-skeptic Donald Trump launched a meme coinfinally.

Decrypt reached for Rockstar games for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

Published by Andrew Hayward