GTA 6 fans have three new strings to argue over: “joinSession”, “launchActivity” and “launchMultiplayerActivity.”
A data miner on X pulled them from the PlayStation backend for the GTA 6 release date build. Taken at face value, they point to players being able to create or join sessions and kick off events built around multiplayer. This is a datamine and should be read as one. Rockstar has not commented.
The find leaves one thing as it was: multiplayer will not be available when the game comes out on November 19th. What the code could suggest is an earlier-than-expected arrival for an online mode.
Rockstar’s history points to a wait of weeks
The studio has been here twice, and in both cases the online side followed quickly. GTA 5’s online mode went live two weeks after the single-player campaign released. Red Dead Redemption 2 added a beta option roughly a month after the open-world western launched.
The strings might also just be groundwork. The developers could have put the hooks in place so a multiplayer component slots in neatly later on, which would still leave room for a GTA Online sequel to be many months out. That kind of delay would go against the studio’s past pattern, but it can’t be ruled out.
Why 2027 is still on the table
GTA Online continues to earn Rockstar a lot of money, and the studio may be reluctant to walk away from its players. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier played down the chances of Rockstar revealing a successor to the service in the near future. He said later that fans might be waiting until 2027 for co-op missions.
In an interview, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the game would be good for the streaming platform. He added that a GTA 6 Online, expected in 2027, would drive a larger rise in viewership.
Role-play players have grounds for optimism too. Rockstar’s purchase of Cfx.re has people expecting a popular role-playing mode similar to the scene that formed around GTA 5.
Earlier signs of multiplayer
These strings match messages that came out during a tribunal involving a Rockstar employee. Discord logs from the case referred to a multiplayer test session with 32 participants in October 2025. Jason and Lucia’s story is the priority, but the logs suggest work on more than single-player.
More files for data miners are close. GTA 6 pre-loads start November 10th, beginning in New Zealand at midnight local time, and will roll out across Xbox and PS5 consoles from there.