I've put so much time into making this video and I'm super proud of it. If you have any helpful criticism please let me know I'm always looking to do better.
@@kylemccarthy2292the setting of 1899 makes it hard to add things that “modern audiences” would want to spend real money on. GTA appeals to the kind of people who want to skip the grind and just buy the cool flying car. RDR requires patience in even the short term, a lot of things take a lot of time to just do in the game and that is the exact opposite of what the whales funding GTA online updates want from a game.
@@goatlps this is the most braindead child take I've ever seen bro ofc you won't get the value you probably ain't even old enough to know about the west lol now go on fortnite or sum
RDO was always going to be worse, it's a vast empty world with maybe 4 or 5 villages/ towns? and to traverse you get a slow horse that has no radio no fun lights no city streets etc etc. So people will naturally get bored of it unless you're a 35 year old guy who literally wants to go fishing on a 3d game which is fine (but in that case why not go fishing irl? )
Good lord this seems like a horrible time from beginning to end. Live service really has ruined online games. I remember having so much fun playing Red Dead 1 online, just hopping on and playing what I wanted when I wanted. I don't want playing a game to become a full time job.
Houses, sure. Ranches, I don't get. Play a farming or ranching sim if that's what you're after. Houses or other properties like it, though, absolutely; ridiculous our characters still lived in a tent after getting rich.
@@CottonKerndy2000I don't think buying a ranch would be all that crazy Is it any different than buying a taxi cab company or something in GTA? Or a nightclub. Would be perfectly reasonable
It could’ve been tied to the stables and offered rare legendary horses to find. Break and sell horses to emerald ranch and the mcfarlanes as another pursuit.
Dude, what did you come up with, "flying horses?" I'd wager your ideas would've been far worse than the tonne of content they added. RDO has to be the most underrated online game ever. But no real gamer should stick to 1 game for their whole life anyway. Move on, play some games.
@@goatlps I dont think he was meaning his own ideas for "what could have been", more so just the fact that Rockstar dropped support for a game that could've been a lot more than it is currently. With even more content updates like roles, missions, properties etc.
@@goatlpsrdo is an underrated game, as someone who has invested over 1000 hours into the online side and replayed the story 7 times even 100% the whole story i can say that red dead online really isn’t as good as it could of been and honestly as someone who had a lot of faith in the game and been there since day 1 I just feel like it could’ve been way better and there’s hardly anything “fun” to actually do.
@@BigMonkeyRangayoure there bro maybe make your voice a little bot more prominent and grabbing. Tbe high range flows out well maybe bring up the mid and eq it low then bring the low up and eq it mid and your voice moght be a little bit more “even” other than that everything is 100% there. And a voice anyone can deal with so if thats the critique yoyre in a good place.
I honestly just wish if they don't add any HUGE update just add private servers because every time I try to hop online to see if online is still fun I get slaughtered by hackers :(
@@JosephTeliVision Yeah I use this too it's called "RDO Private Lobby Manager" completely safe too. It's how I play with my friends due to the rampant hacker problem. It's sadly the only way to enjoy it these days.
@@scottmemelord6130I've been looking for a safe way to play solo like that, isn't it risky though? I've heard about some terrible ban waves and I wouldn't want to get banned for using a mod, do you know anybody who's been banned for it or if I could get banned for using it?
This is one of the most savage yet nostalgic videos I’ve watched. The progression of RDO really worked like the progression of the Wild West - beta was wild with players killing each other in large posses for hours at a time and there was literally nothing else to do except be killers. Then ‘civilisation’ crept in with roles like trader and bounty hunter and extra online modes so people could make an easier life on RDO. This then advanced to everyone having money and guns and the game became so tame and boring that the ‘wild’ element slowly died. Poetic really. That ending killed me bro. Great video 👏
Could have been an amazing online game. Outlaws, bounty hunters, homesteaders and rustlers, Indians and soldiers. So much potential wasted. All good ideas slain on the altar of selling a premium currency. Rockstar, I never paid for gold. I used a promotion to get the bounty hunter role for free and I used daily challenges and bounties to grind gold. The premium currency kept new players from picking the game up. Why play a game that encourages players to use real money to get good gear and cosmetics? Not to mention that the amount of cheating in the game made paying gold almost useless.
My favorite memory is when I was on the second the beta dropped, and me and at-least 8 other randoms were in a circle getting hyped in game chat simply because we had the lasso in online. Wish I could go back for just a day to experience that again.
I remember that sometimes I would put all my guns away, disable the HUD and just walk with my horse around the map, with the game's loading screen music playing in the background. Sometimes I had other players join me, and that's something I feel can't be experienced any other way.
I loved doing that too... until hackers in the game started ruining it. It was so annoying. I started playing RedM and doing red dead roleplay recently and it really is amazing, it's genuinely so much fun and make red dead online what I always wished it was, but I know thats not everyones kind of thing. Red Dead Online as a normal online game deserved more love too.
I saw early signs that the end was gonna happen at some point in time. The gold ( Self explanatory). The movement system change after the first roles update that changed the smooth and intense shootouts to first person, drug induced strafin with broken hitboxes. The constant tonic spam combined with the unnecessary ability cards system bred a "Meta over Fun" mentality among a high number of players including the ones that didn't even want to play that way. Don't even get me started on the disappearance of ALL the animals for a whole 8 months after the moonshine update dropped. Had to load into legendary bounty missions just to hunt for the trader role. Out of spite I want Gta 6 to flop for what they did to our child, but at the same time I do want it to be good lol. Rant aside, great video man. The effort put into it feels like this should be a bigger channel so here's another to help with that.🤙
Sounds like you played for plenty long enough for a free add-on, so it does actually have a lot of content, added for free. Yet it's always, "abandoned", and, "wasted potential." GTAVI didn't harm RDO at all - R* making RDO actually delayed GTAVI. But a game based on riding a horse and shooting could never generate the microtransactions of GTAO - thankfully. Take-Two would've made more money from RDR2 story DLC, but they'd basically already banned R* from making any.
You understand if GTA6 fails which is almost a billion dollar project? so if R* fails my favorite gaming company is cooked. An you most likely will never see RDR3.
@@goatlps If they'd actually tried then I would understand, but they didn't. Just an immense lack of care and effort. "That's money hungry rockstar for you", is what I would say if take-two wasn't the soul sucking entity that it is. Wish they would just drop em so R*s IPS could get actual content instead of credit card dlc.
Red dead online is the reason i even met my current friend group with out this game i would have never met my best bud and our first interaction was him inviting me to a party and me saying "the fuck do you want" and him asking to do some missions
The currency in RDR2 and Online seems so off to me. It was way too easy to make money in single player, and way too slow/tedious in online. Also great video, you can tell you put a lot of work into it, hopefully the algorithm will pick it up.
I find starting in online very hard. Once you get trader and bounty hunter you'll, make $1 000 a day If you play for a good 2 and a half hours. I have about 280 hours in Red Dead Online and it's still fun, even though I play the Story mode more, I just love more playing some RDO with my friends. Just the tedious process of having to complete all the story missions and then you make enough gold bars for only 1 role, is very hard, that's why everyone starting over should get some respect. I'm not gonna lie, I got Naturalist and the Halloween pass completely out of friendly modders, but I would make enough gold for them with Bounty Hunter but I was greedy. Seeing as much shorter it is in Red Dead Online to buy everything in the game compared to Grand Theft Auto Online, I now refuse any offer for free gold or money from cheaters. I find Red Dead Online Fun playing even with the boring content, it's just the fact that I want to Buy everything that makes me enjoy the grind with my friends.
Thats the point, in singleplayer you get a bunch of money so you can buy everything without thinking but in online its the opposite so you dont get everything in 2 days 🤦♂️
@@Volkswagen_Yeetle The only people that have $50,000 + are like 5% of the whole RDO game, you can see on steam that only like 15% of people have rank 50, Imagine how many % of people would have $50 K. I met like 2 people in game that have maybe 30K with one of the best outfits and good guns. Nowadays everyone buys RDR2 completes it tries RDO and quits after like 5 weeks of playing.
@@Tokcek750"one of the best outfits" there is no best outfit. You sound like someone who rides bandwagons irl and only wears overly expensive Nike and Air Jordan shoes even though they are made cheaply
I remember the first day of Red Dead Online I spawned in the desert with a bunch of random players and we had a big fist fight full of people being lassoed and dragged around! It was such a fun time, now everytime i hop on Red Dead online its either a ghost town or big posses having wars in the middle of towns shooting anyone they see on sight. It's sad to see Rockstar abandoned a game with so much potential..
I meet one of my closest friends in RDO who also became the first player I ever played with. Before RDO I was a hardcore solo player because of my crippling social anxiety which caused me to be terrified of online games and pvp. I was riding around when a random player caught me with a lasso (typical) and when the player let me go I saw that he had a super high lvl. I wasn't gonna shoot knowing full well that he would obliterate me so I just stood looking at him. That caused him to tie me up, but me on his horse and bring me to his camp. Four years later we play almost every single day! So RDO downfall hurt quite a lot but I will always be thankful for the fact that it gave me my first ever online friend.
I remember when save red dead online was at its highest. It inspired me to buy the game and try it out myself. The player base definitely felt bigger than it does now
Honestly bro this was a high quality video, you must really get screwed over by the algorithm if you make content this good man. Keep up the great work.
I think what probably hurt a lot was the "Save Red Dead Online" that happened on Twitter and Rockstar just ignored it, and the constant Halloween outlaw pass coming back... God, I remember everyone speculating if they were gonna add zombies in the online on its first month of Halloween, good times, this bring backs memories, now all I do is hop on once in a blue moon, and literally walk to towns and sit down on benches and chat with anyone nearby
This will go down as one of the biggest wasted opportunities in gaming. After seeing how everything turned out, now I wish that guy that hacked rockstar would have released the red dead source code to the modders. If RS isn't willing to support this game the community would have.
There is a program like that actually called RedM, but its mostly used for red dead online roleplaying. Completely changes and improves the system of the game, IK not everyone is into that stuff but it is really amazing and I'm glad there are people out there who support the game even if rockstar doesnt. I really enjoy RedM though and would highly recommend it.
I got RDR2 in the Christmas of 2019, played the Beta with my friends. All we ever wanted to do was rob banks, trains and maintain a ranch like Beecher's Hope but we never got that. Here's hoping one day someone else will take the mantle of Western Games and give us everything there is to offer for our cowboy dreams.
Hey if thats something you're interested in I would recommend trying the RedM program, you can look into it but it basically is a "mod" which completely changes red dead online, it changes from server to server though. It mostly is used for Red Dead Roleplay, but if you're not interested in that there might be normal servers as well (but I'm not sure). The server I play on you can be a rancher and have farm animals, or a farmer, I personally am a horse trainer. Theres a lot more than that too it's really amazing. Someone I know on there grows illegal substances and sells them, theres also very in depth robbery systems (you can rob stores, banks, and other players, and real people playing lawmen will chase you and hunt you down). It's a shame the actual developers abandoned the game, but it really is an amazing community and I highly recommend it.
This video is great you definitely earned a new subscriber. I really enjoy evolution/downfall videos that go over history of different games you did awesome on this!
Great job on the video, this my favorite game ever made. I only play story though because the amount of detail and secrets is amazing, and endless..I always felt like online was dead, never cared much for it… it’s like a western backrooms😂
Even tho you might call your past self "cringe" (an experince i think we can all relate to), it's awesome to hear the genuine joy and fun you and your pals were having :). Takes me back. Great video, with good audio balancing.
I remember jumping straight into the multiplayer after finishing the story in the same week of release and falling instantly into despair. It was nothing like the first RDR multiplayer and had a poor currency system. I dropped it after a few missions. Months later I tried it again and not only was it worse, I couldn't play any missions that required more people, because no one was one now. At least not when I could play. It could've been beautiful.
This video is amazing, it absolutely deserves more views and I’m sure you’ll get them. The effort really shows, especially with everything you talked about. I’ve been playing since the beta and I knew of each thing you’d talk about next. I’m happy to see someone talking about the game that actually cares about it and isn’t just some GTA youtuber covering the game with little interest. You earned my sub
It’s sad how that game actually went bad and down. There was also still online story missions to complete. Sadly we didn’t get the ones with Grace lancing I really wanted to know what happened after Jessica and Horley
Red dead online is so much better then gta online. I started a new character a month ago and I’m having a blast playing with my wife. I haven’t had this much fun in any gta game
I remember playing the online in what was, for me, the best time to play. The daily challenges weren't nerfed yet, and I was able to buy all three roles. I had a lot of fun, and getting money from hunting was immensely satisfying. I would watch any new video that came out, and stopped playing about at the same time the dailys were nerfed. Great video bro, keep it up!
really enjoyed this video. only yesterday i checked out my old game clips and captures from the beta, all of which were me messing around with mates, and i genuinely shed a tear. awesome times!
Everyone that plays this game knows how much potential this had. It’s sad that there is no other company to threaten rockstar’s beloved GTA, so they could open their eyes. Rdr could’ve made as much money as GTA. With updates simple as Properties, working like moonshine, costing 10000 gold bars or smth, they get players to grind and use their real money. Giving us more passes, more horses and stable space, decent train robberies, bank robberies, new roles like rancher, horse trading, debt collector, finishing Online story, the game would take off completely. And for everyone saying GTA had attention: no it didn’t. Yes a, rockstar updates the game, but you know what they do? They take cars from the game or give you useless cars, and they update their shark cards to get more money. Not to mention every other week we have a new horrible song from an artist no one gives a f*** about to play on the radio. Rockstar, since 2019, seems to have lost everything they had good. And it saddens me that GTA kids are willing to pay 200$ or more for GTA6 because that just gives more power to this god awful company. Yes, their story games are good. But the company as a whole is disgusting and their contractors and investors are even worse. Boycott rockstar.
I ran a clan in red dead online a huge one actually with my friend hydro, it had over 1000 members so as you can imagine I was on this game 24/7 for atleast a year 2018 onwards and those were some of the best times I’ve ever had on a game. I will never forgot the potential rdo had and how truly sad it is that rockstar abandoned it. Little tip btw you can exploit the money in races for example if you and your friends wait out a lobby for 20 mins you’ll get 5-10x the xp, gold and money it’s quite nice and how I imagined to get thousands of gold
Great video I was surprised when I saw how many subscribers you have as this is really good quality. ps I think you should of included the call to arms update as for me I thought that it was the last update to bring the community together.
It's a shame that rockstar abandoned red dead online I remember when the frontier update came out I was hyped up because I had high hopes that we'd get more roles and new stuff but seeing rockstar give it bread Crumb updates has to be one of the saddest tragedy in gaming history
Really good summary. Sometimes hilarious. I was there the second Beta dropped, too. Wonder if we ever ran into each other. I was super devoted and stopped playing in early 2020, as the nonsense grew. I missed the big "clown protest" - I had already given up for all the reasons you discussed.
In defense of the elephant rifle, it's an awesome cavalry weapon if you can manage the awful fire rate. Riding a horse negates the knockback for some reason, and you don't have to focus on aiming for crits to get a one shot kill. Literally just point at a player, or their horse, and boom. Dead.
Nice outro! But yeah I was literally thinking about this the other day, it’s been something like years since the last update. Surely they could just add properties, and then those could unlock heist style missions like in GTA Online? That shouldn’t be difficult to do…
This video was so well put together it could have been from one of the biggest creators on the platform, only it had more heart. Don’t give up continue with this channel and it will be great
My friend group and I are actually having a lot of fun with the online mode, we often just chill around camp, do some trading missions, do some bounty hunting and occasionally dabbling in a bit of roleplaying here and there. It sure could have had a lot more content or polishing, but I’m having a blast playing it!
Beautiful montage at the end. Really captures the spirit of roaming the world of RDR. I just wish it had gotten the same love as GTAO. But because no one bought gold like shark cards it was discarded.
Back when they first broughr out those first 3 roles I'd normally have a long youtube video in the background and just chill a few hours doing the whole map. Did it on a Sunday every week for a month and then had enough money for anything I ever felt that I needed. Was able to buy anything released in the future content updates and after that i just hit max role ranks and then just chilled in the open world. Such a shame man the world is so rich and full of life and the only reason I kept coming back past the initial online release after all my crew of friends stopped playing after a few weeks was because I kept myself immersed but as mentioned in this video, rockstar really wanted people to stop playing it the way they were hardly releasing content and the moment they brought something decent out for the players still interested like daily challenges they decided to back peddle, remove one of the only few good things to grind for and then straight up pull the plug and announce that 'that's it folks'. As someone who rode the wave from 2018 and kept coming back until about late 2021 I enjoyed my time and compared to gta lobbies, ypu actually meet alot better people in that open world. One thing that I really love that wasn't mentioned was the proximity system, you didn't have players from the other side of the map hunting you down as they didn't know where you were if you were just chilling in the middle of nowhere minding your own busisness. To those still out there playing, I commend you as you guys are the ones who made the game great for those small interactions in the world. I really hope that if red dead 3 launches (long time from now) they do the online justice and actually make the right efforts and use rdo as an example for themselves of what went wrong and how they can make it better
I started around the frontier pursuits update, picked collector as my first role. I was rolling in money in no time, by level 70 I had more than I could ever spend, and just never worried about cash again. Just messing around with friends doing whatever until I quit
Pre daily missions I figured out that Gun Rush rewarded you based on your place on the leaderboard when you quit in addition to the "More gold for just waiting around timer" So if I got eliminated early I could just set the controller down upside down so there was input on the sticks and go do house chores or something else until the match ended. If everyone else who got eliminated in the meantime left the lobby to start a new match by the time the final 1v1 was over I'd get the payout for finishing third place instead of 31st or whenever I was actually eliminated. Also, there was always a typo in one text that displayed during gun rush that only appeared on one single map. I sent that in as a bug report a few times I would totally be unsurprised if it was still there today.
I think what makes me angrier at this RDO situation is the 0 communication we have from Rockstar. 0. We all know the game is dead. We all know it’s just waiting for servers to shut down. So why doesn’t rockstar just post a paragraph explaining why tf did they do this.
I appreciate read dead online for what it is but it is so sad to think what it could have truly been. My hopes were high back in those days too. They gave us the most amazing story in any video game ever and they could have provided one of the best online experiences too
I still love playing it. My favorite is doing the Call to Arms. During the first days I made a lot of money fishing for muskies. They were worth $7.75 and I was able to get the equipment I need ASAP
It is so sad that RDO fell the way it did. I remember reading about them "pausing" the updates, to focus on GTA. Yet here we are a good while later, and they have yet to resume updating the game. Anytime me and my friend get on, we are met with hackers in every server, making it unplayable. Furthermore, nothing to do when we finally catch a break from the chaos. Though it is worth mentioning that roleplay servers are playing a part in reviving the "online" part of the community, even if those roleplays are never done in the online mode.
Currently replaying RDR2 on PC, 5 years after playing it on launch on PS4. Got 16 days time played on RDO before I quit when they released the expanded Bounty Hunter role for more gold, at the same time as nerfing the daily challenge payouts and streaks! I fondly remember spending an entire afternoon collecting every item using Jean Ropke's map; for several days in a row, to rake in thousands of dollars. I actually enjoyed the Outlaw Pass given that it paid for itself and only required 2,000xp to increase a tier, which could easily be done by doing the Legendary Bounties or Daily Challenges. Such a shame how they abandoned it. I loved the little niche things you could do, such as selling legendary animal pelts to Cripps to vastly add more materials to the Trader role; or only doing one daily to keep the streak doing (like visiting a shop in a town which you could do by riding close to the butcher); or sedating & reviving a single rabbit which would make Harriet okay with you despite the many animals you killed beforehand. Very good recap video!
Thank you man. You captured my feelings with this one perfectly. This was the final straw for me. I do not care how many years they've worked on GTA VI, I simply can no longer trust this company to deliver anything they promised. It was betrayal after betrayal and I have had enough. I do not believe a single image from that trailer will even be remotely like that in game. The cancellation of the RDR1 remake on top and the bastardisation if the GTA trilogy remakes were just more proof for me that the old R* was dead. What could have been...
I had a slightly different start, joined the condor egg hunt on a whim as my very first event and found it for $2k. My friend who had been playing for a while already was screaming.
One of my most fond memories is having a new years party with all my long distance rdo playing friends. Using this game we were able to dress up fancy like, explore in the snow that covered the whole map at winter time, dance, play poker together, shoot the shit and get horribly drunk at the moonshine bar. All while we were all tipsy irl. It was so much fun, it is a core memory for me. It's silly, but at the height of rdo, that was truly a wonderful time to play with my friends.
I tried playing it again with a new character.. It's just sad, let alone the whole subject that we'll never get any new content, the amount of glitches minor and big (like the horse not spawning when you whistle and the stables one) and knowing that the game will never be patched.. It's embarrassing for a company this big
This is such a trip down memory lane... The daily challenges, the collectables map, Harriet fucking Davenport! I too had a daily streak of over a year, and the day they killed that was the day I quit Red Dead Online forever. What a waste.
Im level 450 almost I played since Beta for the online me and my friends absolutely loved this experience for what it was and they completely tore it down and ruined it for what it was for greed and only greed. The PVP was really fun and there was always something to do with your friends at camp. They needed to add houses and so much more to make it a complete experience, it’s part of why I started boycotting GTA online. I made so many friends and memories, but the gang split up all went their separate ways minus one or two of us now but I still think fondly of these days.
This used to be the go to online game between me and my friends even when updates started dwindling out. Now I haven’t played the game in at least a year but at least I have the memories.
Not to mention Rockstar completely ignored the players pleas to revive this game. For months people would post “Save Red Dead Online” in the comments section of every official Rockstar news wire post. Literally thousands of posts and they ignored every single one of them. I noticed in the comments section of the GTA 6 reveal, just as many people posting “we will never forgive you for what you did to RDR2 online” or something similar. With such a strong story mode and hands down the most popular video game protagonist to ever be created, they had a clear path to success right in front of them. There was plenty of people, at the time, making excuses for Rockstar by blaming the COVID lockdowns for the eventual failure. Even Rockstar themselves made references to staffing issues because of it. I wasn’t buying it then, and I’m still waiving the bullshit flag on it, now. Rockstar spent eight damn years developing just the story mode. Eight years. The effort they put into the online portion pales in comparison. At the end of the day, this game basically became a technology demonstration for GTA 6. GTA 5 shark card sales were still bringing in a lot more than RDR2 online ever did. They chose, at the end of the day, to sacrifice what could have been for what they already had. GTA 5 is over 10 years old, and still making them money hand over fist. I will maintain my belief, if they would have stuck it out and given this game a proper chance, it might never have rivaled GTA, but it would have been stood by itself just fine. In addition to it being an entirely different experience to GTA, in the beginning and especially during the release of Frontier Pursuits, the vast majority of players even had a different feeling to them. I can’t count how many genuinely friendly and helpful players I ran into during that time. Sure, every now and then you would come across one of the GTA tryhards that went around massacring everyone and everything. But 99% of them were enjoyable to be around and talk with. Gone was the lobbies filled with griefers and tryhards. It was just a slower paced game, in my opinion, that initially attracted a mostly older and more mature player. Once the game started to stagnate, and especially during the more than 8 months of animals not spawning, I began to see more and more frustration and then a steady stream of GTA transplants that absolutely ruined the vibe. Back then, and honestly even now, you can’t go into town without four or five posse’s killing every single person they come across. With no way to escape these morons, you’re stuck getting supplies from camp. You can’t even deliver a bounty without these mouth breathers throwing dynamite or shooting your horse with dynamite arrows. Rockstar really dropped the ball here. It was themed and promoted as a game where you could be an outlaw. What we got was a game not about working not as a lawman, but as a bounty hunter. A game not as an outlaw, but a petty criminal. A hunter and poacher. All in all, a hired hand sent on fetch quests. An idiot taking orders from a crazed tree hugging maniac of a woman that talks to animals. Hell, Rockstar even ruined the idea of turning those legendary animal pelts into awesome coats and vests, like you could in story mode, into something mundane and stupid. The coats you could make from those pelts ended up just being the same damn version of coat, over and over again, with an idiotic headpiece as a hood. They ended up being the easiest way to spot the tryhards, since damn near all of them wear one with a bandanna permanently on their face. Ironically, the only unique coats or vests that looked to be made of animal skin or pelts were usually locked behind a gold purchase, and they were only uploaded three or four times during the exceeding few outlaw passes, never to be seen again. Arguably, the coolest pistol in the game never made it to online. I could go on and on about how many ways Rockstar screwed up here. How many roles could have been created that would have kept the then growing community engaged for years to come. But again, they chose to abandon this game and its players, in favor of that clown and shit show that is GTA 5. A 10 year old game that they are still updating with regular content. It’s pretty bad when even Elon Musk can recognize how completely stupid Rockstar is to continue milking GTA 5. What a complete waste of time, effort and money, just to see it abandoned and forgotten. F you, Rockstar. Every time you got hacked and your precious shit was leaked, it made me laugh.
I really hope that Rockstar at least re-releases the old Outlaw passes back to the game. I really need a reason to grind because I do love it and there's limited things for me to do these days. Rockstar keeps re-releasing the second halloween pass so I don't see why they can't do the same with the others. I wouldn't even mind Rockstar including the old Outlaw passes in the GTA+ subscription. I honestly say it would be a smart move because people would have to pay irl money instead of gold whom people have glitched many times by now.
I think this is one of my few triggers. They could’ve done so much like make the zombie dlc or add a few more roles to online. I would’ve happily payed and played. HUGE opportunity missed here.
It took red dead redemption 1 5 months to release undead nightmare,between those months rockstar released multiplayer dlcs so it was awsome constantly getting content. Good times
Red dead online didnt make infinite money from shark cards so it wasn't worth working on
The hard truth. Money is more important than creating art for the sake of art.
To clarify, I don’t believe that. I’m just saying that’s how the industry is.
Pretty much, yeah
I mean you can buy gold… which pretty much gets almost anything.
@@kylemccarthy2292the setting of 1899 makes it hard to add things that “modern audiences” would want to spend real money on. GTA appeals to the kind of people who want to skip the grind and just buy the cool flying car. RDR requires patience in even the short term, a lot of things take a lot of time to just do in the game and that is the exact opposite of what the whales funding GTA online updates want from a game.
It's crazy how GTA Online was so successful that it ruined Red Dead Online, a game that could have been just as good or even better.
RDO was never going to match GTAO. It's basically land, sea, and air vehicles vs a horse LOL.
@@goatlps obviously GTA has bigger scope, but there was plenty of content they could have added to RDO. Guns, properties, heists, new roles, clothing.
@@goatlps this is the most braindead child take I've ever seen bro ofc you won't get the value you probably ain't even old enough to know about the west lol now go on fortnite or sum
@@goatlps Quality or Quantity
RDO was always going to be worse, it's a vast empty world with maybe 4 or 5 villages/ towns? and to traverse you get a slow horse that has no radio no fun lights no city streets etc etc. So people will naturally get bored of it unless you're a 35 year old guy who literally wants to go fishing on a 3d game which is fine (but in that case why not go fishing irl? )
The potential of RDO was crazy 😥😥
In some other universe we got the rdo we deserved
@@belalalalal363hope theyre enjoying it 🫠
Biggest fumble in gaming history for sure😔
Me and my friends still play and have a blast. Don't know why everyone cries about it so much, it's freaking awesome!
you can't be that blinded by your own personal experiences when talking about what the game COULD have been@@axlenuts5418
Good lord this seems like a horrible time from beginning to end. Live service really has ruined online games. I remember having so much fun playing Red Dead 1 online, just hopping on and playing what I wanted when I wanted. I don't want playing a game to become a full time job.
Video games is dying
@@whaleshey i think more the online aspect is. it's just driven by money majority of the time
Exactly correct.. bless you sir. I haven't played in years. Hope its not horrible.
We always say this. The industry will always have its downs. But it still is making more than movies, books and music at the same time.@@whaleshey
@@whalesheyplenty of great single player games
The fact that RDRD2 ONLINE support ended before we never got Ranches and Houses is so stupid and criminal.
Houses, sure. Ranches, I don't get. Play a farming or ranching sim if that's what you're after. Houses or other properties like it, though, absolutely; ridiculous our characters still lived in a tent after getting rich.
@@CottonKerndy2000 wild west and no ranches? r u alright in the head?
@@CottonKerndy2000I don't think buying a ranch would be all that crazy Is it any different than buying a taxi cab company or something in GTA? Or a nightclub. Would be perfectly reasonable
Bank Heist like GTA without that Stupid Prep Work would be amazing on Red
It could’ve been tied to the stables and offered rare legendary horses to find. Break and sell horses to emerald ranch and the mcfarlanes as another pursuit.
OG Red Dead Multiplayer players here ? 🙋♂️
Yup. Never got the hang of it though
It was alright, i was busy playing a lot of other games at the time to tho so i didn’t main it
Aye
I remember when R* updated the multiplayer to give everyone an explosive rifle for a week or so. Then updating it again to reverse that change.
day mfkn 1 babyyyyyyyy
I feel this. A friend & I get on every once & a while, we just do whatever but the conversation is always “what could have been” with this game.
Dude, what did you come up with, "flying horses?" I'd wager your ideas would've been far worse than the tonne of content they added. RDO has to be the most underrated online game ever. But no real gamer should stick to 1 game for their whole life anyway. Move on, play some games.
Crazy my best memories of red dead online are "what could have been" conversations while playing poker
@@goatlps I dont think he was meaning his own ideas for "what could have been", more so just the fact that Rockstar dropped support for a game that could've been a lot more than it is currently. With even more content updates like roles, missions, properties etc.
@@goatlpsur obviously a child.
@@goatlpsrdo is an underrated game, as someone who has invested over 1000 hours into the online side and replayed the story 7 times even 100% the whole story i can say that red dead online really isn’t as good as it could of been and honestly as someone who had a lot of faith in the game and been there since day 1 I just feel like it could’ve been way better and there’s hardly anything “fun” to actually do.
Bro this video feels like it has 1 mil views, crazy effort for such a small channel. Keep it up bro you'll blow up with more content like this
Thanks man. Not sure I’m quite on that level yet but I really appreciate the comment
I agree. I thought this would have at least 100k views
Agreed.
@@BigMonkeyRangayoure there bro maybe make your voice a little bot more prominent and grabbing. Tbe high range flows out well maybe bring up the mid and eq it low then bring the low up and eq it mid and your voice moght be a little bit more “even” other than that everything is 100% there. And a voice anyone can deal with so if thats the critique yoyre in a good place.
@@BigMonkeyRanga imposter syndrome is a bitch. You definitely have quality content, I’d say.
the somber montage of the best western game in History being forgotten by the rockstar gods hit hard.
Probably my favourite part of the video
That online map for the collector's map is amazing.
Truly is, I remember using that thing on the daily when I played
@@TheRealFAAyep it was so good rockstar had to nerf it because you could literally make almost 1000$ in just an hour if you went after the coins
The line about Harriett spraying you with "some Bill Cosby shit" had me in stitches.
The song you used at the end fits so well with what has become of Red Dead Online
I honestly just wish if they don't add any HUGE update just add private servers because every time I try to hop online to see if online is still fun I get slaughtered by hackers :(
There is a mod you can get that creates them. It's how I play these days as the hackers etc became an issue for me.
on a console change your MTU settings to 700. This guaranteed a solo lobby everytime!
@@andyetheridge I'm on PC :(
@@JosephTeliVision Yeah I use this too it's called "RDO Private Lobby Manager" completely safe too. It's how I play with my friends due to the rampant hacker problem. It's sadly the only way to enjoy it these days.
@@scottmemelord6130I've been looking for a safe way to play solo like that, isn't it risky though? I've heard about some terrible ban waves and I wouldn't want to get banned for using a mod, do you know anybody who's been banned for it or if I could get banned for using it?
This is one of the most savage yet nostalgic videos I’ve watched.
The progression of RDO really worked like the progression of the Wild West - beta was wild with players killing each other in large posses for hours at a time and there was literally nothing else to do except be killers. Then ‘civilisation’ crept in with roles like trader and bounty hunter and extra online modes so people could make an easier life on RDO. This then advanced to everyone having money and guns and the game became so tame and boring that the ‘wild’ element slowly died. Poetic really.
That ending killed me bro. Great video 👏
Could have been an amazing online game. Outlaws, bounty hunters, homesteaders and rustlers, Indians and soldiers. So much potential wasted. All good ideas slain on the altar of selling a premium currency. Rockstar, I never paid for gold. I used a promotion to get the bounty hunter role for free and I used daily challenges and bounties to grind gold. The premium currency kept new players from picking the game up. Why play a game that encourages players to use real money to get good gear and cosmetics? Not to mention that the amount of cheating in the game made paying gold almost useless.
My favorite memory is when I was on the second the beta dropped, and me and at-least 8 other randoms were in a circle getting hyped in game chat simply because we had the lasso in online. Wish I could go back for just a day to experience that again.
6 years ago?
damn dude time fucking flies
Bruh I said in the video that the game came out in 2018 and I didn’t even register that that was six years ago. Time really does fly
I remember when there was a war between gtao and rdo because people thought that rockstar would leave gta for rdo, man I wish that shit happened
I know gta is overrated in m book
Actually got sad by the video ending. Damn R*, we trusted you. Single player is still a masterpiece.
I remember that sometimes I would put all my guns away, disable the HUD and just walk with my horse around the map, with the game's loading screen music playing in the background. Sometimes I had other players join me, and that's something I feel can't be experienced any other way.
I loved doing that too... until hackers in the game started ruining it. It was so annoying. I started playing RedM and doing red dead roleplay recently and it really is amazing, it's genuinely so much fun and make red dead online what I always wished it was, but I know thats not everyones kind of thing. Red Dead Online as a normal online game deserved more love too.
@@ariemarie6471 Yup, RedM is where it's at. Leave it to the community to pick up Rockstars broken pieces
The end hit different
I saw early signs that the end was gonna happen at some point in time. The gold ( Self explanatory). The movement system change after the first roles update that changed the smooth and intense shootouts to first person, drug induced strafin with broken hitboxes. The constant tonic spam combined with the unnecessary ability cards system bred a "Meta over Fun" mentality among a high number of players including the ones that didn't even want to play that way. Don't even get me started on the disappearance of ALL the animals for a whole 8 months after the moonshine update dropped. Had to load into legendary bounty missions just to hunt for the trader role. Out of spite I want Gta 6 to flop for what they did to our child, but at the same time I do want it to be good lol. Rant aside, great video man. The effort put into it feels like this should be a bigger channel so here's another to help with that.🤙
Sounds like you played for plenty long enough for a free add-on, so it does actually have a lot of content, added for free. Yet it's always, "abandoned", and, "wasted potential." GTAVI didn't harm RDO at all - R* making RDO actually delayed GTAVI. But a game based on riding a horse and shooting could never generate the microtransactions of GTAO - thankfully. Take-Two would've made more money from RDR2 story DLC, but they'd basically already banned R* from making any.
You understand if GTA6 fails which is almost a billion dollar project? so if R* fails my favorite gaming company is cooked. An you most likely will never see RDR3.
@@YungREDA Didn't ask 🤷🏾♂️? Get a less predatory favorite perhaps.
@@goatlps If they'd actually tried then I would understand, but they didn't. Just an immense lack of care and effort. "That's money hungry rockstar for you", is what I would say if take-two wasn't the soul sucking entity that it is. Wish they would just drop em so R*s IPS could get actual content instead of credit card dlc.
the hitboxes aint broken if you snipe them with the carcano, i usually do after someone blows me up. heh they never use guns.
Red dead online is the reason i even met my current friend group with out this game i would have never met my best bud and our first interaction was him inviting me to a party and me saying "the fuck do you want" and him asking to do some missions
The currency in RDR2 and Online seems so off to me. It was way too easy to make money in single player, and way too slow/tedious in online.
Also great video, you can tell you put a lot of work into it, hopefully the algorithm will pick it up.
I find starting in online very hard. Once you get trader and bounty hunter you'll, make $1 000 a day If you play for a good 2 and a half hours. I have about 280 hours in Red Dead Online and it's still fun, even though I play the Story mode more, I just love more playing some RDO with my friends. Just the tedious process of having to complete all the story missions and then you make enough gold bars for only 1 role, is very hard, that's why everyone starting over should get some respect.
I'm not gonna lie, I got Naturalist and the Halloween pass completely out of friendly modders, but I would make enough gold for them with Bounty Hunter but I was greedy. Seeing as much shorter it is in Red Dead Online to buy everything in the game compared to Grand Theft Auto Online, I now refuse any offer for free gold or money from cheaters.
I find Red Dead Online Fun playing even with the boring content, it's just the fact that I want to Buy everything that makes me enjoy the grind with my friends.
Thats the point, in singleplayer you get a bunch of money so you can buy everything without thinking but in online its the opposite so you dont get everything in 2 days 🤦♂️
Too slow and tedious? Sure pal, I bet that's why you probably have $50,000+ like every other fool in Red Dead Online
@@Volkswagen_Yeetle The only people that have $50,000 + are like 5% of the whole RDO game, you can see on steam that only like 15% of people have rank 50, Imagine how many % of people would have $50 K. I met like 2 people in game that have maybe 30K with one of the best outfits and good guns. Nowadays everyone buys RDR2 completes it tries RDO and quits after like 5 weeks of playing.
@@Tokcek750"one of the best outfits" there is no best outfit. You sound like someone who rides bandwagons irl and only wears overly expensive Nike and Air Jordan shoes even though they are made cheaply
"There was a story that was, at the the time, unfinished." The sad part is that it's still unfinished.
I’ve been playing since the beta. The game died the moment they stared hiding players from one another. It made the world feel empty
I played since beta but quit a few years ago and I can't believe the 10th horse stall horse glitch never got fixed from the Beta
@@DovahTheHero I don’t know that glitch
I remember the first day of Red Dead Online I spawned in the desert with a bunch of random players and we had a big fist fight full of people being lassoed and dragged around! It was such a fun time, now everytime i hop on Red Dead online its either a ghost town or big posses having wars in the middle of towns shooting anyone they see on sight. It's sad to see Rockstar abandoned a game with so much potential..
*Red Dead Online should’ve been outsourced to a secondary studio*
Cruel cruel world at the end was a nice touch, now I’m crying
I meet one of my closest friends in RDO who also became the first player I ever played with. Before RDO I was a hardcore solo player because of my crippling social anxiety which caused me to be terrified of online games and pvp. I was riding around when a random player caught me with a lasso (typical) and when the player let me go I saw that he had a super high lvl. I wasn't gonna shoot knowing full well that he would obliterate me so I just stood looking at him. That caused him to tie me up, but me on his horse and bring me to his camp. Four years later we play almost every single day! So RDO downfall hurt quite a lot but I will always be thankful for the fact that it gave me my first ever online friend.
How do you only have 38 subscribers mate this work is a whole other level, keep it up bro
I remember when save red dead online was at its highest. It inspired me to buy the game and try it out myself. The player base definitely felt bigger than it does now
Such a shame, this game had so much potential...
Honestly bro this was a high quality video, you must really get screwed over by the algorithm if you make content this good man. Keep up the great work.
I only just started man. Algorithm actually blessed me I only had 13 subs when I posted this. Cheers for the nice comment
I think what probably hurt a lot was the "Save Red Dead Online" that happened on Twitter and Rockstar just ignored it, and the constant Halloween outlaw pass coming back...
God, I remember everyone speculating if they were gonna add zombies in the online on its first month of Halloween, good times, this bring backs memories, now all I do is hop on once in a blue moon, and literally walk to towns and sit down on benches and chat with anyone nearby
rdo's prime was 2019 when they gave us the update with the roles and the outlaw pass, man i was so happy that day 😢
A single tear rolls down my cheek at the thoughts of the wasted potential every time a red dead online vid pop up in my recommendations.
This will go down as one of the biggest wasted opportunities in gaming.
After seeing how everything turned out, now I wish that guy that hacked rockstar would have released the red dead source code to the modders.
If RS isn't willing to support this game the community would have.
There is a program like that actually called RedM, but its mostly used for red dead online roleplaying. Completely changes and improves the system of the game, IK not everyone is into that stuff but it is really amazing and I'm glad there are people out there who support the game even if rockstar doesnt. I really enjoy RedM though and would highly recommend it.
I got RDR2 in the Christmas of 2019, played the Beta with my friends. All we ever wanted to do was rob banks, trains and maintain a ranch like Beecher's Hope but we never got that. Here's hoping one day someone else will take the mantle of Western Games and give us everything there is to offer for our cowboy dreams.
That’s when I got rdr2 also
Hey if thats something you're interested in I would recommend trying the RedM program, you can look into it but it basically is a "mod" which completely changes red dead online, it changes from server to server though. It mostly is used for Red Dead Roleplay, but if you're not interested in that there might be normal servers as well (but I'm not sure). The server I play on you can be a rancher and have farm animals, or a farmer, I personally am a horse trainer. Theres a lot more than that too it's really amazing. Someone I know on there grows illegal substances and sells them, theres also very in depth robbery systems (you can rob stores, banks, and other players, and real people playing lawmen will chase you and hunt you down). It's a shame the actual developers abandoned the game, but it really is an amazing community and I highly recommend it.
This video is great you definitely earned a new subscriber. I really enjoy evolution/downfall videos that go over history of different games you did awesome on this!
Dang dude this video is amazing the editing and everything you’ll blow up one day and I’ll be here for it
Great job on the video, this my favorite game ever made. I only play story though because the amount of detail and secrets is amazing, and endless..I always felt like online was dead, never cared much for it… it’s like a western backrooms😂
Even tho you might call your past self "cringe" (an experince i think we can all relate to), it's awesome to hear the genuine joy and fun you and your pals were having :). Takes me back.
Great video, with good audio balancing.
I remember jumping straight into the multiplayer after finishing the story in the same week of release and falling instantly into despair. It was nothing like the first RDR multiplayer and had a poor currency system. I dropped it after a few missions. Months later I tried it again and not only was it worse, I couldn't play any missions that required more people, because no one was one now. At least not when I could play. It could've been beautiful.
This video is amazing, it absolutely deserves more views and I’m sure you’ll get them. The effort really shows, especially with everything you talked about. I’ve been playing since the beta and I knew of each thing you’d talk about next. I’m happy to see someone talking about the game that actually cares about it and isn’t just some GTA youtuber covering the game with little interest. You earned my sub
Speaking of which, The Professional talks about this game a lot and tried to save the game. He couldn’t, but he tried.
It’s sad how that game actually went bad and down. There was also still online story missions to complete. Sadly we didn’t get the ones with Grace lancing I really wanted to know what happened after Jessica and Horley
Red dead online is so much better then gta online. I started a new character a month ago and I’m having a blast playing with my wife. I haven’t had this much fun in any gta game
You play on PC? If so how is the player base is it populated
I remember playing the online in what was, for me, the best time to play. The daily challenges weren't nerfed yet, and I was able to buy all three roles. I had a lot of fun, and getting money from hunting was immensely satisfying. I would watch any new video that came out, and stopped playing about at the same time the dailys were nerfed. Great video bro, keep it up!
really enjoyed this video. only yesterday i checked out my old game clips and captures from the beta, all of which were me messing around with mates, and i genuinely shed a tear. awesome times!
Loved the video, really felt like something a huge channel would make. Legitimately made me remember why I stopped playing
Everyone that plays this game knows how much potential this had. It’s sad that there is no other company to threaten rockstar’s beloved GTA, so they could open their eyes. Rdr could’ve made as much money as GTA.
With updates simple as Properties, working like moonshine, costing 10000 gold bars or smth, they get players to grind and use their real money. Giving us more passes, more horses and stable space, decent train robberies, bank robberies, new roles like rancher, horse trading, debt collector, finishing Online story, the game would take off completely.
And for everyone saying GTA had attention: no it didn’t. Yes a, rockstar updates the game, but you know what they do? They take cars from the game or give you useless cars, and they update their shark cards to get more money. Not to mention every other week we have a new horrible song from an artist no one gives a f*** about to play on the radio. Rockstar, since 2019, seems to have lost everything they had good. And it saddens me that GTA kids are willing to pay 200$ or more for GTA6 because that just gives more power to this god awful company.
Yes, their story games are good. But the company as a whole is disgusting and their contractors and investors are even worse. Boycott rockstar.
I ran a clan in red dead online a huge one actually with my friend hydro, it had over 1000 members so as you can imagine I was on this game 24/7 for atleast a year 2018 onwards and those were some of the best times I’ve ever had on a game. I will never forgot the potential rdo had and how truly sad it is that rockstar abandoned it. Little tip btw you can exploit the money in races for example if you and your friends wait out a lobby for 20 mins you’ll get 5-10x the xp, gold and money it’s quite nice and how I imagined to get thousands of gold
Great video I was surprised when I saw how many subscribers you have as this is really good quality. ps I think you should of included the call to arms update as for me I thought that it was the last update to bring the community together.
It's a shame that rockstar abandoned red dead online I remember when the frontier update came out I was hyped up because I had high hopes that we'd get more roles and new stuff but seeing rockstar give it bread Crumb updates has to be one of the saddest tragedy in gaming history
Bro you gotta keep posting content this is entertaining dude
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Such a small youtuber yet the content is very high quality, keep it up.
Also about RDO, I hate seeing it just being abandoned in favour of GTA.
Really good summary. Sometimes hilarious. I was there the second Beta dropped, too. Wonder if we ever ran into each other. I was super devoted and stopped playing in early 2020, as the nonsense grew. I missed the big "clown protest" - I had already given up for all the reasons you discussed.
I think rockstar might come back for rdrO after gta 6.
If they do they’re gonna have to optimize it for Xbox series. S and X.
Why?
@@Isaac32322 we need 60 fps lol
They won’t
I heard the same thing for after gta 6
the game was great until horsepressor mark .5 came in
dude the editing in this video is so good, i hope this gets more attention man keep up the good work
That ending montage to the tune of Cruel World. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻. Brilliant. Keep up this quality of content, you're gonna get some good attention. Well done.
In defense of the elephant rifle, it's an awesome cavalry weapon if you can manage the awful fire rate. Riding a horse negates the knockback for some reason, and you don't have to focus on aiming for crits to get a one shot kill. Literally just point at a player, or their horse, and boom. Dead.
When Rockstar abandoned RDRO, I celebrated. GTA W🎉
Red Dead is still a better game than gta 5.
@@Johnnytree67 nah
@Galaxy30389 lol, okay, whatever you say 🤣
And whatever I say is, indeed, correct.@@Johnnytree67
Nice outro! But yeah I was literally thinking about this the other day, it’s been something like years since the last update. Surely they could just add properties, and then those could unlock heist style missions like in GTA Online? That shouldn’t be difficult to do…
This video was so well put together it could have been from one of the biggest creators on the platform, only it had more heart. Don’t give up continue with this channel and it will be great
my favorite game
My friend group and I are actually having a lot of fun with the online mode, we often just chill around camp, do some trading missions, do some bounty hunting and occasionally dabbling in a bit of roleplaying here and there. It sure could have had a lot more content or polishing, but I’m having a blast playing it!
The end Made me shed a tear 😢… I have some of best memories playing this game with my friends for the 1st time.
Beautiful montage at the end. Really captures the spirit of roaming the world of RDR. I just wish it had gotten the same love as GTAO. But because no one bought gold like shark cards it was discarded.
great breakdown as someone that’s been playing sine beta this brought back numerous memories!
Back when they first broughr out those first 3 roles I'd normally have a long youtube video in the background and just chill a few hours doing the whole map. Did it on a Sunday every week for a month and then had enough money for anything I ever felt that I needed. Was able to buy anything released in the future content updates and after that i just hit max role ranks and then just chilled in the open world.
Such a shame man the world is so rich and full of life and the only reason I kept coming back past the initial online release after all my crew of friends stopped playing after a few weeks was because I kept myself immersed but as mentioned in this video, rockstar really wanted people to stop playing it the way they were hardly releasing content and the moment they brought something decent out for the players still interested like daily challenges they decided to back peddle, remove one of the only few good things to grind for and then straight up pull the plug and announce that 'that's it folks'.
As someone who rode the wave from 2018 and kept coming back until about late 2021 I enjoyed my time and compared to gta lobbies, ypu actually meet alot better people in that open world. One thing that I really love that wasn't mentioned was the proximity system, you didn't have players from the other side of the map hunting you down as they didn't know where you were if you were just chilling in the middle of nowhere minding your own busisness.
To those still out there playing, I commend you as you guys are the ones who made the game great for those small interactions in the world. I really hope that if red dead 3 launches (long time from now) they do the online justice and actually make the right efforts and use rdo as an example for themselves of what went wrong and how they can make it better
I started around the frontier pursuits update, picked collector as my first role. I was rolling in money in no time, by level 70 I had more than I could ever spend, and just never worried about cash again. Just messing around with friends doing whatever until I quit
Pre daily missions I figured out that Gun Rush rewarded you based on your place on the leaderboard when you quit in addition to the "More gold for just waiting around timer" So if I got eliminated early I could just set the controller down upside down so there was input on the sticks and go do house chores or something else until the match ended. If everyone else who got eliminated in the meantime left the lobby to start a new match by the time the final 1v1 was over I'd get the payout for finishing third place instead of 31st or whenever I was actually eliminated.
Also, there was always a typo in one text that displayed during gun rush that only appeared on one single map. I sent that in as a bug report a few times I would totally be unsurprised if it was still there today.
Bro there's no way u only have 388 subs, this is huge channel quality. I wish you all the best.
When I made this video I only had 13. The growth has been insane
I think what makes me angrier at this RDO situation is the 0 communication we have from Rockstar. 0. We all know the game is dead. We all know it’s just waiting for servers to shut down. So why doesn’t rockstar just post a paragraph explaining why tf did they do this.
I appreciate read dead online for what it is but it is so sad to think what it could have truly been. My hopes were high back in those days too. They gave us the most amazing story in any video game ever and they could have provided one of the best online experiences too
I just became your 796th subscriber. I know you’ll be big someday if you keep this up. Great video!
I still love playing it. My favorite is doing the Call to Arms.
During the first days I made a lot of money fishing for muskies. They were worth $7.75 and I was able to get the equipment I need ASAP
this video is really well produced you should be proud of this, great job!!!
It is so sad that RDO fell the way it did. I remember reading about them "pausing" the updates, to focus on GTA. Yet here we are a good while later, and they have yet to resume updating the game. Anytime me and my friend get on, we are met with hackers in every server, making it unplayable. Furthermore, nothing to do when we finally catch a break from the chaos.
Though it is worth mentioning that roleplay servers are playing a part in reviving the "online" part of the community, even if those roleplays are never done in the online mode.
Currently replaying RDR2 on PC, 5 years after playing it on launch on PS4.
Got 16 days time played on RDO before I quit when they released the expanded Bounty Hunter role for more gold, at the same time as nerfing the daily challenge payouts and streaks! I fondly remember spending an entire afternoon collecting every item using Jean Ropke's map; for several days in a row, to rake in thousands of dollars. I actually enjoyed the Outlaw Pass given that it paid for itself and only required 2,000xp to increase a tier, which could easily be done by doing the Legendary Bounties or Daily Challenges.
Such a shame how they abandoned it. I loved the little niche things you could do, such as selling legendary animal pelts to Cripps to vastly add more materials to the Trader role; or only doing one daily to keep the streak doing (like visiting a shop in a town which you could do by riding close to the butcher); or sedating & reviving a single rabbit which would make Harriet okay with you despite the many animals you killed beforehand.
Very good recap video!
Thank you man. You captured my feelings with this one perfectly.
This was the final straw for me.
I do not care how many years they've worked on GTA VI, I simply can no longer trust this company to deliver anything they promised.
It was betrayal after betrayal and I have had enough. I do not believe a single image from that trailer will even be remotely like that in game.
The cancellation of the RDR1 remake on top and the bastardisation if the GTA trilogy remakes were just more proof for me that the old R* was dead.
What could have been...
this video made me tear up :( i miss RDO and playing with my friends.
I had a slightly different start, joined the condor egg hunt on a whim as my very first event and found it for $2k. My friend who had been playing for a while already was screaming.
This is a very well put together video dude- keep it up!
I put an ungodly amount of hours into RDO. A damn shame Rockstar abandoned it. Nothing compared at the time.
One of my most fond memories is having a new years party with all my long distance rdo playing friends. Using this game we were able to dress up fancy like, explore in the snow that covered the whole map at winter time, dance, play poker together, shoot the shit and get horribly drunk at the moonshine bar. All while we were all tipsy irl. It was so much fun, it is a core memory for me. It's silly, but at the height of rdo, that was truly a wonderful time to play with my friends.
Fantastic video. Also, I loved the music. What was the song playing at 3:10?
I bought rdr2 this month after years of wanting to play, and I just started rdr online today, also love the videos, keep it up 👍
I tried playing it again with a new character.. It's just sad, let alone the whole subject that we'll never get any new content, the amount of glitches minor and big (like the horse not spawning when you whistle and the stables one) and knowing that the game will never be patched.. It's embarrassing for a company this big
This is such a trip down memory lane... The daily challenges, the collectables map, Harriet fucking Davenport! I too had a daily streak of over a year, and the day they killed that was the day I quit Red Dead Online forever. What a waste.
Great EDIT Ranga ! This was awesome ! hope it gets more views!
BIGGEST NEGLECT by Rockstar was that they hadn't thought of adding NEW GAME+ to replay single player.
Im level 450 almost I played since Beta for the online me and my friends absolutely loved this experience for what it was and they completely tore it down and ruined it for what it was for greed and only greed. The PVP was really fun and there was always something to do with your friends at camp. They needed to add houses and so much more to make it a complete experience, it’s part of why I started boycotting GTA online. I made so many friends and memories, but the gang split up all went their separate ways minus one or two of us now but I still think fondly of these days.
This used to be the go to online game between me and my friends even when updates started dwindling out. Now I haven’t played the game in at least a year but at least I have the memories.
Not to mention Rockstar completely ignored the players pleas to revive this game. For months people would post “Save Red Dead Online” in the comments section of every official Rockstar news wire post. Literally thousands of posts and they ignored every single one of them.
I noticed in the comments section of the GTA 6 reveal, just as many people posting “we will never forgive you for what you did to RDR2 online” or something similar.
With such a strong story mode and hands down the most popular video game protagonist to ever be created, they had a clear path to success right in front of them. There was plenty of people, at the time, making excuses for Rockstar by blaming the COVID lockdowns for the eventual failure. Even Rockstar themselves made references to staffing issues because of it. I wasn’t buying it then, and I’m still waiving the bullshit flag on it, now.
Rockstar spent eight damn years developing just the story mode. Eight years. The effort they put into the online portion pales in comparison. At the end of the day, this game basically became a technology demonstration for GTA 6. GTA 5 shark card sales were still bringing in a lot more than RDR2 online ever did. They chose, at the end of the day, to sacrifice what could have been for what they already had. GTA 5 is over 10 years old, and still making them money hand over fist.
I will maintain my belief, if they would have stuck it out and given this game a proper chance, it might never have rivaled GTA, but it would have been stood by itself just fine.
In addition to it being an entirely different experience to GTA, in the beginning and especially during the release of Frontier Pursuits, the vast majority of players even had a different feeling to them. I can’t count how many genuinely friendly and helpful players I ran into during that time. Sure, every now and then you would come across one of the GTA tryhards that went around massacring everyone and everything. But 99% of them were enjoyable to be around and talk with. Gone was the lobbies filled with griefers and tryhards. It was just a slower paced game, in my opinion, that initially attracted a mostly older and more mature player.
Once the game started to stagnate, and especially during the more than 8 months of animals not spawning, I began to see more and more frustration and then a steady stream of GTA transplants that absolutely ruined the vibe. Back then, and honestly even now, you can’t go into town without four or five posse’s killing every single person they come across. With no way to escape these morons, you’re stuck getting supplies from camp. You can’t even deliver a bounty without these mouth breathers throwing dynamite or shooting your horse with dynamite arrows.
Rockstar really dropped the ball here. It was themed and promoted as a game where you could be an outlaw. What we got was a game not about working not as a lawman, but as a bounty hunter. A game not as an outlaw, but a petty criminal. A hunter and poacher. All in all, a hired hand sent on fetch quests. An idiot taking orders from a crazed tree hugging maniac of a woman that talks to animals. Hell, Rockstar even ruined the idea of turning those legendary animal pelts into awesome coats and vests, like you could in story mode, into something mundane and stupid. The coats you could make from those pelts ended up just being the same damn version of coat, over and over again, with an idiotic headpiece as a hood. They ended up being the easiest way to spot the tryhards, since damn near all of them wear one with a bandanna permanently on their face.
Ironically, the only unique coats or vests that looked to be made of animal skin or pelts were usually locked behind a gold purchase, and they were only uploaded three or four times during the exceeding few outlaw passes, never to be seen again.
Arguably, the coolest pistol in the game never made it to online.
I could go on and on about how many ways Rockstar screwed up here. How many roles could have been created that would have kept the then growing community engaged for years to come. But again, they chose to abandon this game and its players, in favor of that clown and shit show that is GTA 5. A 10 year old game that they are still updating with regular content.
It’s pretty bad when even Elon Musk can recognize how completely stupid Rockstar is to continue milking GTA 5.
What a complete waste of time, effort and money, just to see it abandoned and forgotten.
F you, Rockstar. Every time you got hacked and your precious shit was leaked, it made me laugh.
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I really hope that Rockstar at least re-releases the old Outlaw passes back to the game. I really need a reason to grind because I do love it and there's limited things for me to do these days. Rockstar keeps re-releasing the second halloween pass so I don't see why they can't do the same with the others. I wouldn't even mind Rockstar including the old Outlaw passes in the GTA+ subscription. I honestly say it would be a smart move because people would have to pay irl money instead of gold whom people have glitched many times by now.
I think this is one of my few triggers. They could’ve done so much like make the zombie dlc or add a few more roles to online. I would’ve happily payed and played. HUGE opportunity missed here.
It took red dead redemption 1 5 months to release undead nightmare,between those months rockstar released multiplayer dlcs so it was awsome constantly getting content. Good times
I can't tell you how many hours I wasted on online, it saddens me that they wasted so much potential.