So many years after release, GTA 5 suddenly finds itself back on top at TwitchTV. However, the popularity is not due to any significant gameplay changes, but rather a multiplayer mode in GTA 5.
Why is GTA suddenly popular again? The new popularity is attributed to roleplay streams.
While GTA Online regularly introduces new game content, such as the game mode Motor Wars, which features a crazy battle royale with combat cars, it is the roleplayers who are now driving a massive popularity surge for the 6-year-old game.
GTA Online regularly ranks in the top 10 channels with the most live viewers on Twitch, often in 1st or 2nd place.
GTA Online’s growth on TwitchTV has been significant: Roleplay has been popular on Twitch for some time, but it has never caused such a huge boom as it has now.
In recent weeks, however, it has gained extreme momentum. As the site TwitchStats reveals, the big boom started on March 9. More and more people suddenly began watching GTA Online streamers. From an average of 19,000 viewers on March 8, it jumped to 29,000 viewers on March 9, 103,000 viewers on March 14, a staggering 140,000 viewers on March 17, and finally 152,000 viewers on April 3.
This surge can be attributed to massive Twitch channels with millions of followers starting to stream GTA roleplay.
These channels stream GTA-RP: Streaming giants like Lirik (2.4 million followers), Summit1g (3.7 million followers), and Sodapoppin (2.4 million followers) regularly broadcast their sessions from the roleplay servers.
What makes RP so entertaining? Roleplay transforms GTA Online into a unique world. With the many possibilities for designing characters, players have a lot of freedom for their creativity in developing personalities. Some embody their online personas reflecting their “true selves,” while others use outrageous ideas such as undercover police infiltrating drug rings.
When streamers that you already like engage in roleplay, it usually ensures great entertainment. They take on their online roles and experience the funniest stories together with the chat.
Roleplay offers a completely different perspective on the game than the usual online sessions or the single-player story of GTA 5. However, the servers are not official. The RP servers of GTA Online are provided by the community.
Funny clips from GTA Online roleplay
Here you can see streamer pokelawls getting a ticket from the police. He is also given money by the officer, for which the streamer thanks him very much.
Because on the RP servers, you never know what kind of personality you might suddenly encounter. It quickly becomes very funny.
Here you can see a music performance in the stream of kyliebitkin:
There are also many German channels that regularly stream GTA roleplay. In this clip, you see Matteo streaming on the channel of Bonjwa. Here, he seems to have misjudged the gender of the other player:
Or here in the stream of Shlorox an interesting encounter with mysterious figures:
Do you also watch roleplay from GTA 5? What are your favorites?
In between, you can quickly and easily earn a chunk of money in the online mode of GTA 5:
