What KILLED Red Dead Online? 

Rockstar killed it.

Rockstar dropped the ball big time. If they had no intention of supporting RDO, then they could have at least put some time and effort into some DLC for the main game. It's sad that such an amazing game got neglected so badly.

Multiplayer had such huge potential. Owning land/houses and buildings (businesses) Farming Huge expansions on the bounty hunter/hunting series. Endless amount of online missions which could of tied in with singleplayer. (bank robberies etc.) Not just 4 missions. There was so much they could of done to update and keep the game going for years and it would have been the best multiplayer ever.

When it first come out I expected to be able to eventually buy stage couches, houses, ranches with animals etc etc but not really a lot happened

Rockstar's love for GTA Online. Red Dead Online had so much potential, people asked for the ability to buy properties, businesses, ect.

When it was first announced I had massive expectations: bank heists, train heists, duels, bar fights, bare knuckle fight clubs, looting, shake downs, cheating in poker, gang hideouts, bounty hunting other players, hunting, home robberies etc, all with doing with friends and against real players. The list is almost endless. Then it came out and it felt barren, empty, with hardly any of those things in the game, and the ones that were weren’t properly incentivised. The award for completing missions was pathetic and there was no consistency in the game’s economy at all. Just makes me sad to think that they had a home run on their hands, all they had to do was swing for the fences, and they just didn’t.

Played since launch, kept coming back now and then hoping for more, first time the game crossed my mind in a while so found myself here, RIP RDR2 was fun while it lasted

GTA is fun but RDR is flat out better. Gorgeous world, fun interaction with npcs, AND A GREAT THEME! my friends and I have went back over the past couple months and have even gotten new players to join in! Rockstar needs to give this another look. Even goin back to GTA the controls even feel gross in comparison. Save RDR!

The greed and complete lack of support, or even care for this game is what killed it

The tragedy of RDO is that there is so much untapped potential that was completely wasted simply because it wasn't GTA. They could have added heists, properties, stuff to actually spend money on, etc. The single player game is so phenomenal but the online game is just bland and largely empty and the roles boring and monotonous for the most part. This game could have been great had they just supported it a bit.

This will be long. The 2 biggest issues with RD2O was the lack of exclusivity of roles and how they decided to solve the player to player issues. You don't solve a multiplayer issue by introducing systems that enforce solitude and reducing interactions with other players. You do it by giving different venues of interaction, which they had a perfect foundation with the roles. How these roles don't focus more on player interaction is beyond me. The lure of being a bounty hunter is ultimately to hunt other players, not NPCs. Bounty hunter would have been the anti griefer role. To handle griefers, give them an outlaw role where you can control their expression by channeling their actions towards gameplay rather than personal attacks because they are bored. How traders can't buy, sell or exchange items with other players is also beyond me. They should have had much more exclusivity with regards to characters and roles. Its great that each role has special and unique abilities and items, but because you can be all roles at the same time it doesn't quite matter. They should have had one major role per character, like the trader and have that expand into moonshining, or the naturalist expanding into ranching. This along with foucussing on player interaction through the roles would make for a never ending interesting experience. Picture a scenario where the naturalist who has access to special hunting abilities and tools, gets pelts and trades with the trader, who has the special skill to turn these resources into goods and can sell different items to players and in game stores. And outlaws who have special abilities like to hold people up and gadgets to intercept these goods while in transit. This role can expand into collector, which should just be robberies/bulgrary. The bounty hunter should be able to get hired as a bodyguard for these trading trips and can collect bounties on the most infamous outlaws. Honestly such an ecosystem would generate endless opportunities for fun. Griefers would have a more meaningful way of interacting with others while anti griefers are now incentivised. Those who like to keep to themselves and just hunt and maybe run a ranch would be naturalists while those who look primarily for profit would be traders who can expand into even owning some of the stores and hotels where other players can come and trade or hang out. This would be amazing also because you could have different characters for these different roles as we all know sometimes you wanna be an outlaw other times the moral hero with no name. Sometimes you want to just hunt and other times you wanna make some money. So just switch characters. Once Rstar began to implement systems that focused more on isolation to deal with griefers rather than incentivising interactions through defined and satisfying gameplay mechanics, the game began to die. Honestly if i wanted to play solo and not interact with anyone, then theres offline.

My theory is Rockstar wasn’t expecting the level of grind players were willing to put in. You would see people with hundreds or thousands of gold bars and how did rockstar react? We’ll just nerf the rate at which you get them, then add two more versions of micro transactions in the game! I’m willing to bet it was abandoned because they didn’t see the level of success with micro transactions that GTA did. Probably because themed items were so limited in RDO vs GTA. Overall shitty situation, I loved this game.

This game had so much potential.

To answer the title. It was Rockstar, rockstar killed it.

Red Dead Online was so fun to play with my brother. I was always hoping that they would expand the story more and maybe even open up Mexico to give us more to explore and interact with since Mexico was still there. There was so much potential they missed out on!

I’ve played the story 50 times. Know it word for word and it still doesn’t get old.

Such a shame that the online completely flopped. The story mode is still one of the best story games I've ever seen and played.

I used to play with friends that enjoyed pve while I was constantly getting in the way of griefers. I would usually hang around popular zones and protect new players from high lvl full gear griefers. After a while people just stopped playing or there would be select groups who kept to themselves and the griefers would either desperately search unpopular areas to cause trouble or they would just go to a pvp match. The game just feels stale now and it's really sad. The design and realism of that game is on a completely different level and I wish it was lively again

Awh man, this made me so sad... I loved this game so much, and it marked a really fun time in my life with my best friend honestly. To see it be thrown away by Rockstar breaks my heart...

It's funny how they don't listen to the fan base, but once a fun exploit is discovered, it's patched Immediately

Calling RDR2 Online an "escape" is a beautiful word to describe that mode man. For many of us, it really was an escape, especially during 2020 - it brought us together, and for that Wild West roleplaying fun, I will forever be grateful for it.

What you didn't mention: 1. Since the beginning, we recieved no communication from Rockstar about anything with the exception of the occasional, "We hear you and we will be releasing something soon" post. Yet, despite these they never actually addressed any of the issues brought up from the community, which brings me to my next point you didn't mention... 2. Broken Game Mechanics and Bugs at launch with no word on fixes. This actually continued well into the eventual launch of Frontier Pursuits. One such major bug was animals would not spawn in the world. Especially considering on of the major roles introduced (btw, Frontier Pursuits was released long after launch after droves of people already abandoned the game because there was little reason to play past the incomplete story) was the Trader Role which required hunting. This was not fixed for months even past that date. However, you know what was fixed pretty quick? 3. Player Exploits were "fixed" and punished within days (sometimes hours) of being discovered. Whether it was the infamous Infinite Cougar Exploit or the Collectibles Location Map, anything the players found that actually benefitted the players was corrected almost immediately, and Rockstar would mention it, but ignored the real issues which drove players to find and take advantage of these exploits in the first place. 4. GTA Favoritism. You did mention that GTAO got more attention, yes, but what you didn't mention was just how much. Where they would get constant content and bonuses in their weekly updates, RDO recieved little to nothing. At times the best we would get is a new excuse to sRockstar. world money, but no real reason to. Again, all of this comes with no word from Rockstar. 5. Two years of no significant update. You mentioned Blood Money. What you didn't mention was that it came after two years of no real update. Frontier Pursuits was the only real update we got. The Naturalist update was the update that fixed the animal spawns and introduced a few new minor upgrades. Then absolutely nothing. Finally, we get "Blood Money" with Rockstar giving us a minor bone by teasing "a major update," but what did we get? A new currency to grind which can only be spent to unlock new story missions, and the infamous currency was so rare to find that you ended up spending real world money just to get it, which was an option advertised from the beginning. Frakking CAPITALE... Rockstar promised an Online Mode that would rival GTAO, and drip fed us just enough to keep us hoping for more. They never intended to do anything with the game and that is clear through their actions. The last year has been the biggest proof of that, in fact. "We hear you and promise great things coming" in response to savereddead. Then a few months later, "Just kidding, we're just telling you we're done." This game has been on lifesupport since day one.

One thing I hate about the online is the missions having time limit

I remember smoking a blunt getting real high, off day, home alone big chillin. I decided to give RDO another shot and got hooked immediately bc how amazing the graphics and wildlife were, fun daily challenges, and fun shootouts. I grinded the game, made cool friends from rdo that I don’t even talk to anymore. Got level 200+ doing everything rdo had to offer. It sucks rockstar is ditching this gem. Hopefully they’ll come back to it someday

I’ve played since the beta, because there is truly no other game that is like it. Red Dead Online is the only way to really feel like you are a cowboy and get that “Wild West” feeling. It truly makes you feel like you have the outdoors at your fingertips. Some of the mechanics are very well done and well thought out, like player ability cards and gunplay. The scenes this game presents you with are breath taking at times, but many of the most beautiful towns just feel so empty now. There are no central player hubs, no community activities, no custom games, no new guns, etc. At launch, there were hundreds of player roaming this huge world, with simplistic PvP bar fights and town sieges, but afterwards many found that they had nothing to do without PvP. My friends had quit early on because the only way to make money was through hunting one bear every 15 minutes. Rockstar didn’t fix this money issue until an entire year later. There simply wasn’t enough content at the very beginning to keep the community really engaged, and because GTA was such a cash cow, they completely dropped this game early on. For the past few years, all anyone has really been able to get out of this game is a beautiful nature simulator.

I remember falling in love with Red Dead Online, you had this daily missions where if you maintain the streak you could get a mutiplier of gold nuggets, I managed to reach like a 380 day streak, it was insane, I logged in every day for over a year to do at least one daily mission, I managed to get over 1100 gold bars, it was fun, I was getting ready for properties, houses, new roles, businesses. Is such a shame man, the game was amazing, had so much potential but Rockstar probably expected another money printing machine like GTA online, and it seems the monetization in Red Dead Online was not the best for them, for the greedy cunts that run the company

what killed it for me was the rampant hacking and subsequent griefing. such a gigantic oversight to leave in the modding capabilties.

I started playing a month ago, lot of new people playing. I was in a full lobby today where I was the highest level. Constant full lobbies. Game is far from dead.

Rockstar and it’s obsession with GTA 5 killed it.

What's crazy is the complete lack of support for RD2 post launch. Single and multi player.

Just started playing it again and didn't realize how much I missed visually beautiful always something to do and sometimes just fun riding around doing nothing but exploring. Really is a great game.

I think it could be saved without adding new content we haven’t seen. If they added all the dope features from single player that would be more than enough

I was really sick and stressed in 2019-2020 and I absolutely lived in this game. I used to spend most of my free time there and was even involved in RDO communities outside of the game servers. I used to throw parties at my bar and it was always such a fun time getting fake (or real) drunk with random people that saw my invites and felt inclined to join. It's such a shame that Rockstar gave up on it so quick. :/ I understand that the player count probably wasn't as high as they wanted it to be in the early days, but it always spiked when new content was added. People are just bored doing the same shit over and over again. I don't think it would ever reach GTA Online levels, but if they had simply kept up with releasing new content then the player count would be way higher than it is now.

I played this a ton over the years. I kept on hopping in and out with the updates. The game felt like it was building to something & I felt like I was saving for something big. I assumed a next gen version would get released, then more updates would follow. Similar to how GTA went. It's a shame to hear that's not going to happen. Cheers to RDO

I think it's all about the revenue. I think the discontinuation of major updates is not coming from number of players but from the number of players that are buying gold in the game. Rockstar made a huge mistake from the beginning letting players to get an insane amount of gold per day doing daily challenges. I remember when the first lockdown started in March 2020 being stuck home I was playing this game and I used to do around 15 full gold bars a day, now o have over 600 gold in the game and around 300k dollars and have nothing to spend on.. Some time later they realised that any major content they add is not good in terms of profit and that players have enough resources to buy anything without purchasing microtransactions; which makes me asking you.. : Is there any business without profit ?

I loved this game. Literally thousands of hours into this game. Months of real time 18 hrs a day. 100% the game twice. Every achievement. It’s a beautifully fun game. So sad to admit it’s finally dead.

"Fuck you, buy GTA V again." - Rockstar, probably

I remember the first time I played rdo, not long after it released, I finished pretty much everything that I could possibly do in the story mode and then made the move to online.. and I fell in love with it immediately .. I played it for a solid 2 years straight on almost a daily basis, it just had so much potential.. but the more I played the more flaws and short comings I noticed, but they were dropping good content at first, keeping me coming back, keeping the game feeling fresh wirh new things to do mixed with the old things.. but now, it’s been more than a year since they’ve made any update at all, and it’s been 2 years since they dropped anything significant.. rhe game became boring and repetitive and I stopped playing all together since last shmmer.. it’s too bad rockstar doesn’t want to evolve this world the way they did with gta online, but hey, it was great while it stayed fresh but now it’s become so stale it’s not even edible anymore and rockstar has made it known that they have no intentions of refreshing the game anymore

For those who played the OG RDR game…..you KNOW what a real Wild West game felt like. There will be nothing like it ever again. Hell, just the special mounts you could unlock for leveling up MADE me keep playing. R.I.P. Red dead…you deserved better

I had some of the most fun ever during the time between introduction of the first 3 roles. Then all the animals vanished for months and the game was frustrating. Never did anything to bring people back.

If rockstar actually delivered on what content the community wanted, then Red dead online would’ve been thriving now

What RDR2 really needed is a high quality SINGLE PLAYER DLC! Arthur is one of the best video game characters of the last decade 👌

I really had fun with the game for a while. For a good year I played it every evening after work with a friend. Then suddenly updates stopped coming and we lost interest at some point. The game had so much potential. But what baffles me to this day is that they offered the online mode separately at some point. I briefly had hope that they would make an effort again and bring updates...

I tried playing for 3 days and all that happened is I was constantly harassed and really unable to play the game. When I did try to play I wasnt able to because the mission finder could never find another player so I literally could not continue with quests.

Been playing RDO from the start, I never went hard at it but I always would come back to it and play it with my friends and have a blast. I hate that the only way to get a response out of any big corporation now is to just make a big fuss and hope it works. I hate to see this game go, it had one of the most wholesome and kind communities out there. Hell it’s biggest clan is dedicated to helping new players and stopping griefers and cheaters. We fought the good fight, and we lost. I tip my hat to this community, one legend to another.

The main problem was getting money. I mean, they could have done the same as they did with GTA online. Buy a business and lets do some heists. Throw in some races, and have some open lobby money making machines. We just miss some big heists to make some big bucks without endless grinding. As a trader, you need to hunt constantly, which becomes boring

I started playing the game around sometime this year, I mainly just got it so I could play with my 2 friends. It was fun when they played with me but it got boring when they were offline bc there were not many people playing and I like watching people blow up things and fight each other. But there were like only 8 at most in the servers I got spawned in. I like the little mission (?) things like the king of the castle and stuff like that! They were super fun and lots of other players would play it too! I had some good memories on that game even though I have not played it for that long I want to play it more just my online subscription ended and I already owe my sister like $100 so I will have to wait to play the game again lol.

One of the beats was from Majestro Douglas right?

i’m gonna repeat myself. this game has so much potential. SO MUCH. edit: we STILL, STILL STILL STILL don’t have private/invite only lobbies, heists, npc robberies, store robberies, properties, or vehicles.

No updates, that's what killed it.

I never actually played Red Dead online. I always get sucked into the single player story. I'll have to check it out. Great video 👍

I remember thinking it was extremely fun until I ran into players with explosive bullets, I knew the funniest aspect (pvp) was just gonna be getting stun locked with the mini explosions constantly knocking you down, I looked at the price for those and they were expensive (by design), would take a purchase of gold to obtain them, and I knew immediately, roclstar dug red dead online's grave

Honest answer: Rockstar's greed. I remember a while ago a bunch of these big AAA companies were like "don't blame us for putting loot boxes and microtransactions in our games because people buy them, we're creating things that there is a demand for..." but now if people get sick with all the "games as service" BS and don't buy it, Rockstar doesn't release a great single player expansion (Undead Nightmare 2, etc) instead they just shelf the whole thing. Maybe if they focused on GTA as their big continuous service, and also released great single player titles like RDR2, Bully 2, LA Noire 2 and Max Payne 4 alongside GTA Online, they'd have a lot more success.

Played this game since launch and met my best friend on there while in Guarma (glitch). Made some amazing memories and loved every minute. It’s very unfortunate Rockstar doesn’t see the potential RDO has. My friend and I even dressed our characters up in simple attire and chose a relaxing and cosy place up in the mountains to “live out our lives”, then we turned off the game never to start it up again. It’s dumb but it puts out mind at ease a little. RIP Red dead online, thanks for the memories.

1. Too many modders on PC. 2. You can't do crew only sessions. 3. There is no Rockstar Editor... Fix those 3 things, and it would be so perfect it would almost be unreal

i like your narrative and presentation

Honestly, it really makes me depressed that Red Dead Online failed. I absolutely adored Red Redemption 2 and I was so unbelievably excited for the Online mode - and as soon as it released and I experienced it for a few days, it was a real bummer to feel disappointed over it. Returning to it later, and I still felt that disappointment. GTA Online was largely successful, as was, more importantly, Red Dead Online (1), so why did Red Dead Online (2) fail? Maybe I should return to it, but now I don't have any friends who play the game. The world is absolutely beautiful and a joy to explore, so to do so with friends was just like a dream - but then, when realising there was a lack of heists, properties, and so forth, it felt as if the roleplay element just wasn't there. So yeah, it's a real disappointment, and I would refute your statement that the reception was positive in the Online Beta - I don't remember the feedback being over-the-moon by any means at all. I don't know, maybe I was just feeling fatigue after playing RDR2 for a month and a half beforehand. Maybe I'll return to it someday, because as much as I feel a lingering dissatisfaction to towards the mode, I do admittedly miss that world (I've only played RDR2 once, as I only play games once often), and would love to explore it again, with the fun bonus with other players - as you beautifully said, Jake, an escape :)

1. Shark card sales 2. Rockstar thinking it wasn't profitable anymore because it didn't generate as much as GTA 5 3. Just rockstar

If I could set an actual defensive mod where if I don't engage other players, they can't hurt me, then I would have played RDO a whole lot more, or if there's a Rock* supported private session option.. I don't mind getting griefed from time to time, or getting chased as a trader or moonshiner. But the hackers... I mean, getting bears spawned around me nonstop or keep getting blown up gets old real quickly..

A lot of people still play Red Dead Online. I just picked it up again due to the SaveRedDead hashtag, and all the worlds I've played in online had tons of people in them.

Such a shame Rockstar let this one go. Crazy amount of wasted potential. They clearly want to continue their current business model with GTA, but personally I (and many others, I'm sure) am just not all that interested in GTA Online.

I'm surprised Rockstar didn't care for RDR2 Online; it would have been successful if kept updated, no doubt. So, it does surprise me, and I heavily question, why Rockstar didn't bother updating and staying dedicated to it. They would have had two massive money pools rather than one. There's no evidence for a lower player count being a worthy factor to argue why Rockstar didn't bother updating the online mode when the beta rolled out - more updates over time would have created more attraction, attention, and a naturally larger playerbase.

Gameranx: "Rockstar's maintaining it." Countless, partially game breaking bugs: "Are you sure about that?!"

Ive made my own stories and lore. Ive made a accurate cold weather solider (U.S. Ranger type) And just patrol in the Grizzly's. I shoot & or "tag" animals with the varmint rifle, I hunt legendary bounties in the snow, I do missions for Hamish & the Adlers, clear out local gang hideouts, and do trade runs and moonshine runs as "military deliveries". It's honestly really fun when you use your imagination to fill in the story for yourself.... just wish I didn't have to. I wish there had been more. Once I get my new pc, I'm definitely going onto RedM

Loved the story, but the lack of an invite only lobby online is what killed it for me when it first came out. Just don’t care to deal with griefers. I still play GTAV private lobbies with friends. I doubt this would have made much of a difference for Rockstar, but this one thing would have been a game changer for me.

I think for most of us it was just the graphical atmosphere that we were just able to enter in and be in aw and feel like we actually inside the game. At least for me this was the case. And the major things to do in the game were more reason to continue. It’s a new change of pace when u wanna take a break from a lot of pvp and just have fun being a cowboy. I would even pull a Minecraft and just fish for hours without care because it was soothing. Really anywhere u go u have a sense of soothness even at the swamps because of how much it felt so authentic compared to most games. I just wish there was more that could have been done because the fan base is there but if only rock star was a consumer friendly company.

I was thinking that far into this game they would’ve added a circus or a few festivals or more interactive events/ in game events to celebrate the awesomeness of rdr2. But that was just a dream. Sad to see it go down.

It’s such a shame because I never got that much into gta online but rdr2 online carried that same immersion that the story had just alongside others. But when a game is kinda left to die it just kills the whole experience

It’s sad to see such a great online game die as fast as it did. I think that to all of us, RDO was like our own escape from reality and from gta online. A place where people could come together and have fun, and not just be killed from oppresser kids in gta servers. It was truly a magical place, and I will continue to play for as long as I can and meet people who love the game as much as I do Rest In Peace RDO, you will be missed and loved by many

Sad part is me and some friends love RDO and would still play if Rockstar gave a damn. It's just embarrassing and sad we don't have any properties, ranches, or anything substantial that would be easy for them to do. I moved on because they did. If I had a legit business or some properties I would get on and grind but they just destroyed a beautiful mode with so much potential

How after so long the game still hasn’t even got a bank heist

just got it this week, I'm gonna play online with at least one friend. Such a great main game so far surely people just wanted to experience more content in the awesome world they made

My husband and I had such a great time playing RDO. We put so many hours into the game and maxed out all the roles. We both loved the horses-it was so exciting to buy a new horse, pick the perfect name, and spend way too much time customizing the mane and tail. 😂 We had so many unforgettable gaming moments during our time playing that we will remember forever.

This game was a great way to keep in touch with some of my friends that love far away, but we stopped playing back in 2020. It was just so evident that little to no care was put into even the bigger updates, cause they were never really that big. A lot of the roles had the same type of missions and the ONE thin I saw everyone ask for never got addressed. That one thing being the ability to buy your own ranch, build it up and make a hub, have posse battles defending it, have your businesses and occupations work from there and stuff. I mean the players that are playing it a lot really found a home in there, and patiently waited for years, just to hear that they are quitting? Yeah no, I'm done with rockstar and like I said, I haven't even played since 2020 but this kind of fan treatment is EA-level and I'm not with it.

The potential this had is crazy

Every time I took part in a mission with my mates it would kick me half way through the mission and say it’s because of connective issues, even tho I’ve the best internet going and never get disconnected from other games, eventually it got frustrating as I couldn’t progress my online character as all my mates could do I packed it in and deleted it

I really wanted to see some modded servers with survival elements to it. The game already has the fundamentals in place. Camps, loot, hunter gathering. Man that would have been great.

I'm a late-comer to RDR2 having bought it during the pre Christmas sale on Steam last fall. Played through the SP, and half way through the 2nd round. For something different I hopped on RDO a few nights ago and spent about 4 hours online...and ran across only 3-4 real people in my travels. Explored Valentine, Lemoyne, and Saint Denis and the world was pretty empty, so it felt more like just playing some different SP missions since there was no interaction with any real people. Guess I missed the hay day...lol.

it’s so disappointing that gta5 online can have two different characters while rdr2 online is limited to 1. There’s so many different clothes you miss out on depending on which gender you played as

I really enjoyed this game. My brother got it for me on a Steam Sale for $5.00. For 5 bucks it is an absolute blast. Regardless I would later buy Gold Bars in game and enjoyed the use I got out of those too. Despite the fun I did have, I always wanted more. Be that a better and more expansive story (like a range war), the return of "Undead Nightmare" except now across a bigger and much wider world, the ability to go into all those pretty looking buildings in San Denise, etc. Problem is I don't think players spent enough to justify the production cost of any new signifigant content added (that or the game's writers just did'nt know what to do and did'nt want to add any paranormal elements like Undead Nightmare II because they take themselves seriously or some stupid bullshit like that). Not that the RDO world ending is because of players not spending more money on a game they already bought. Instead I just think GTAO was more popular (no idea why) and apparently the safer and more profitable bussiness model I suppose. Then again, the failure of their Classic GTA Rereleases might have something to do with them diverting reasources. Aww well, looks like our time is up partners. World don't want us no more. Happy trails...

Bought it in 2022, pretty fun with a couple of friends. Sadly, we quickly reached the end of the online content. There isn't much to do at this point. Earn more money, replay missions and just the enjoyment of being in a beautifully crafted world. We would love to have more content and play it for an year or two more. :(

This is easily one of gameranx's best videos of all time. Jake wrote beautifully about why RDR Online means so much to so many people - it is an escape, and I'll always be grateful for that.

I was on a server alone today for 8 hours straight. No NPCs no animals literally just fish deer and vultures why are all of the towns empty now

I just started my online play through like 2 weeks ago . It's not bad really . Still haven't ran out of stuff to do yet lol

I hope the community does the same thing they did with GTA, if they're able to. I never used it myself yet but create a community launcher, add mods to it and do RP servers and things like that. As someone who really enjoys RDO, I think that may bring at least some needed life to it

The lack of player count is a metric used as an excuse for Rockstar to mask their failure. Single player: massive success. Online mode: massive potential. From the jump, the online mode felt like an after-thought when it could have been a massive addition that players would have willingly given their money towards. Rockstar crapped the bed.

I love this game to this day the potential that it has is amazing just sucks nothing is happening I loved red dead redemption 1 online it was so fun I remember getting the gold double action revolver from doing all the challenges I love the 2nds online I love the world I love how it looks but most importantly the fact you gotta dress up for different weather got me in love with it just wish there was more to do in online cause max out every role but naturalist

If they would’ve added houses it would have allowed them to breathe a bit

The graphics, the atmosphere, the fact that your character could get fat or skinny, the physics, the customisation... what a loss.

Man I had such an amazing time playing this when it first came out. Like the first month me and my friend were messing around and found 2 other people to join us , we traveled all over and canoed us far up that river as we could until we had our horses to the mountains , we then got in a small circle with our lanterns during the winter night and we started boxing … was so fin

will always be ruined by modders, can't have fun after a long day of work or even after putting my kid down to sleep.

Crazy part of me that i always play story mode and never played online but im going to download this game and try it out

The main issue for me with RDO was I felt held back. I recall trying to start the Naturist thingy and think I needed other players to progress, IF I'm not mistaken. Its a similar problem I've had with GTA Online as well. But perhaps the biggest difference is the amount of content and pace. You can always hop in GTA and do 1,000, 000, 000 things. But I think RDRs pace is too slow and spread out to be able to hold peoples attention online. More content could probably have helped. I remember seeing people riding around on Zebras in the previous version. I've never seen anything like that for RDR 2. This game I believe would have been better off with story expansions rather than trying to recreate what they've accomplished with GTA online. Nevertheless, the games a masterpiece for sure. I think the timing of the release and perhaps covid may have lead to them having to decide to drop this and focus on the next big blockbuster they have in store.

If they added some sort of Survival aspect (like Valheim) to Red Dead Online I would never stop playing. Still one of my favorite games of all time.. about to redownload it on my 500 gb ps4.

The last time I played it online, it just felt a bit dead. From the npc's to the wild life. Compared to the non online, its strange. I really wish they did more with such an amazing world. Id even be happy with a red dead 3 but with the same map. Completed it twice and I still find things ive never seen

Rockstar needs to do a proper starwars game on this platform with ability to hop to different planets and try your hand at the Kessel Run etc. steal any empire or rebel ship - become a bounty hunter-work for Jaba. The possibilities….

I can absolutely say with certainty it is the horribly rampant amount of hackers and cheaters that kills it for most people. Played for a couple of couple months with some friends and got so sick of having to server hop to get away from them multiple times per hour that we all just pretty much stopped playing. (Also random disconnects in middle of mission constantly wasn't fun either.) Takes the fun out of the game. The prevalencey of the hacking and egregiousness of the types of hacks being able to be used was just horrible. (Like a hacker being able to join a server and just crash everyone on it. Or just cause them to blow up continuously forever...) It's a real shame though becuase it was fun when that wasn't going on though.

I recently started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and it's already one of my favorite games of all time. There's just so much to do. The game looks absolutely gorgeous. Shame Rockstar's greed killed it

Not enough game modes. No 32 player horse racing. No 16v16 TDM. No heists and no new legendary bounties.

I'd like more things to work for, like a wagon/carriage to customize within realistic reasons and properties to build and customize, like maybe a ranch that we can buy and upgrade the house or buy a plantation to customize but also add some heists where we can get together and rob banks and trains etc