Polygon: A full posse turned Red Dead Online into the game I wanted
Christmas is almost upon us and Rockstar Games wants to celebrate it in Red Dead Online, the multiplayer mode of Red Dead Redemption 2. To do this, they launched a new update that is now available on all platforms with news that this will last throughout the month, including themed events and gifts, snow in the five states in which the game takes place and many other things.
Red Dead Redemption 2 turns four years old day, but there's no cause to celebrate when Red Dead Online is no longer with us
TheGamer's Issy van der Velde: "On the day of Red Dead Online's funeral, I took my outlaw for one last ride."
They servers are staying online, right? Why a funeral? Did people want DLC that badly?
If gamers would stop buying into online services for games, we would already have another GTA, another Red Dead, and who knows how many other games we would have right now...its been 2013 since we have another GTA game, let that sink in real deep people....
I feel like if an online mode requires friends to make it entertaining, that mode has likely failed. Not saying every time, of course, but doing things with friends can make just about any mediocre game fun. If the mechanics and content aren't enough when they aren't around, it is probably not great.
If you could get your friends together to play a game you both already enjoy (or enjoyable when not paritied up), and then play that together, you'll normally have a better time with that game than with the one that only "comes alive" with friends. At least in my experience.