GTA 6's Development Has Hurt Red Dead Online's Updates
Rockstar Games has provided a new update on the development of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Online, in the process revealing that no significant content updates will be coming to the latter, with the studio now dedicating much of its focus to GTA 6. After years of speculation, Rockstar officially confirmed that development on GTA 6 was moving ahead earlier in 2022. No concrete details surrounding the project have been shared by the studio so far, although it is rumored to feature Vice City as a possible location.
The multiplayer component for Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online was released in beta in 2018 and quickly set itself apart from its Grand Theft Auto sibling, GTA Online, thanks to its emphasis on slower-paced gameplay and roleplay. Although slow to begin with, Rockstar ramped up updates for Red Dead Online in 2019 and 2020, introducing Frontier Pursuits, which allowed players to take on new roles as bounty hunters, collectors, or traders. New clothing items, weapons, and horses followed, but nothing on the scale seen in GTA Online. Updates in the years following Frontier Pursuits grew less frequent and were met with a mixed response from players, eventually culminating in some Red Dead Online players dressing up as clowns in-game in protest. More recently, to mark almost a year of no updates for the game, RDO players have also made plans for in-game funerals, with many already convinced before Rockstar's most recent post that the game was dead.
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A new post on the Rockstar Games newswire has confirmed that "no major themed content updates" will be coming to Red Dead Online, with the studio now devoting more of its attention
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