The Discord server of the GTA 6 Mapping Project, a fan group that has spent more than four years plotting Leonida on a map, disappeared on 11 November. Nobody has said why, and the project’s followers are left guessing a week or so before the game is due out.
The group built its map from official screenshots and trailers and from material that leaked out of Rockstar’s pipeline. Discord was where members compared those findings before each new version of the map went live. The invite link that used to open the server now leads nowhere, and members who tried to join on 11 November found the server gone.
GameRoll, an account that covers the game, posted that the community had been “mysteriously deleted out of nowhere” and that there was no confirmation of the reason. Many followers suspect a copyright takedown request, though that is speculation: nothing public shows who removed the server, whether Discord acted on a complaint or whether the owners shut it themselves.
The project’s moderators had been deleting material that could infringe copyright, so the server was not an open dumping ground, yet leaked content may still have slipped through.
The interactive State of Leonida map, which lets visitors click markers on Vice City and the surrounding areas, was still reachable when this was written, so the loss so far is the group’s meeting place rather than the map itself, which readers can still explore. The community will need a new place to organise its work, and whether it moves to another platform is the next thing to watch.
