The GTA Online experience is defined by our interactions with other players and communication is often essential to successfully completing missions and heists in the multiplayer modes on offer.
Over the years, and with the various editions of GTA V that were released alongside GTA Online, things have changed significantly and what it's like to play can vary between chosen platforms.
Arguably one of the biggest mistakes the developer has made over the years was the removal of in-game text chat, as part of the GTA V Enhanced Edition that released for the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X in 2025. Now, it has emerged that it could be on the way back as part of the next generation of GTA Online experiences alongside the highly anticipated release of GTA VI.
As first reported by Rockstar Intel, last week's update to the Rockstar Games Launcher features references to the text chat, according to dataminer Tex2. They expanded on this discovery by sharing their belief that Rockstar are currently working on integrating a chat overlay into the Rockstar Games Launcher.
In turn, the idea here would be that this new innovation would allow chat overlays across all of...
