Plus new legendary panthers, and a chance to unleash your animal magnetism.
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
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GTAO, a 9 year old game, is given top billing in that update, with multiple paragraphs dedicated to all the varied content coming to the game. 100% alive and well.
RDO, a 4 year old game, gets a couple paragraphs basically saying "keep expectations in check". They are not going to do any more "major themed content updates", and are pretty much putting it in maintenance mode.
They never seemed to be able to figure out what to do with it, and so RDO is as good as dead, and all that wasted effort meant no single player content was released for the game. Bummer all around.
I think Rockstar wanted to monetize Red Dead 2’s Online the same way they did with GTA, instead of just focusing first on making sure people would be having FUN in that online world.
Original Red Dead Redemption online had these really fun co-op missions, so you and a bunch of randoms would shoot their way into a canyon or mine or whatever. Not sure if they added such content somewhere in the last few years, but I couldn’t find it when I last checked, years ago.
But not growing or receiving any further updates or development it was promoted as having a gta lifecycle but we instead got 4 years of mediocre updates
People only like live service or GaaS games. They groan when devs use the terms, but as soon as there is a multiplayer game that is just maintained in a status quo for people to play and have fun, but without new loot and Rick and Morty skins, they cry foul and say the game is "dead" and "abandoned." Literally now people can't understand the concept of playing a multiplayer game because it's fun. If you aren't earning XP to unlock the new pink and gold skin for your gun, what's the point?
Couldn't have said it better
It's a matter of unlocking stuff and trophies yet one thing many gamers seem to completely miss is FUN
It's dead in the sense that it wont receive anymore major updates like we see in the likes of GTA5 Online (a much older game).
And before someone states RDO is not as popular, the game was never given a proper chance by the likes of TakeTwo (just compare the ammount of updates) and the updates that it did receive pale in comparison to some.
I personally had a blast with it for 3 years, but yea, its time to move on like a lot of old players did.
Define 'older'. GTA5 just got a remaster for current-gen and it costs almost nothing. I'm sure it invigorated online in some capacity.
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?
It's because the people who whine about the terms "live service" and "games as a service" actually want to play live service games and will immediately abandon any online multiplayer that isn't treated as a live service. If they can't grind for new Rick and Morty skins or pink paint for their guns, what's the point?
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....
How would that have prevented RDR2 requiring all of Rockstar's studios to develop over 8 years?
