We’ve learned a new detail about Grand Theft Auto 6′s multiplayer via the ongoing court case over Rockstar Games’ firing of over two dozen employees, despite the GTA maker’s lawyer trying to keep the info secret.
While Rockstar has started to share more information about Grand Theft Auto 6, launching this November, it has basically said nothing about the upcoming open-world game’s multiplayer mode. Following the massive success of GTA Online, GTA 6 will likely feature a similar, possibly bigger, online spin-off. But what that will look like, how it will work, and when to expect it (GTA Online launched a few weeks after GTA V), well, we have no idea. But hey, at least I can confirm to you that GTA 6‘s online mode will support at least 32 players.
This new, tiny detail comes from the ongoing court case between Rockstar Games and over two dozen employees it fired back in October 2025. The company claims they were let go after sharing confidential information in a Discord server. The devs and the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain claim it was an act of union-busting. On Monday, an employment tribunal in the UK ruled that Rockstar won’t have to pay fired employees back pay during the case. But during this hearing, as reported by People Make Games, Rockstar was forced to share some of the messages from the devs, which included a detail about GTA 6′s online mode that Rockstar’s legal spokesperson wasn’t comfortable reading out loud because it was extremely confidential.
In October, one fired employee sent a message in Discord claiming Rockstar didn’t want more than five people taking time off for any reason, as it made it harder to fill playtest sessions of the online mode with 32 players. “Not sure how that was difficult,” added the developer, as seen in court docs by PMG. Someone else replied: “Sounds like you have multiple studios of QA testers, surely someone can manage to organise a 32 player session and let people have their time off.”
And that’s it. As I mentioned, it’s not a significant detail and not surprising either, as GTA Online currently supports 32 players online (30 players and 2 spectators). And we also don’t know for certain if GTA 6‘s online mode will support exactly 32 players at release, or if other modes, like a possible freeroam mode, might support even more or fewer players. Still, it is a detail about GTA 6‘s barely-talked-about multiplayer mode that Rockstar was apparently so determined to keep hidden that it got nervous about it in court and allegedly fired someone over sharing it in a Discord chat.