RDR3 Can Do Without Red Dead Online
Rockstar Games would be better off avoiding an online component to Red Dead Redemption 3, given the studio's handling of Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer component, Red Dead Online. The studio has wasted Red Dead Online's potential — an issue that has been exacerbated by several launch-period promises - and the developer would probably prefer to avoid constant backlash due to lack of support. Rockstar will surely continue giving most of the post-launch attention to the next iteration of GTA Online, and a half-baked multiplayer feature for RDR3 wouldn't go down well with the series' community.
Red Dead Online launched a month after Red Dead Redemption 2 in late 2018. Though initially bare, several major updates showed the true potential of the multiplayer world if Rockstar continued to support it like the company still does for GTA Online. In the three and a half years since RDO's release, that potential hasn't been realized as content updates have come to a halt. Rockstar developers had previously teased grand ideas for the multiplayer, from specialized wagons to GTA-like heists in Red Dead Online, but those are nowhere to be found in the current version of the game. Players did not let their displeasure go unheard, starting the "#SaveRedDeadOnline" campaign and routinely flooding the comment sections of Rockstar's social media accounts with calls for support of the game. The developer has made no announcements regarding upcoming content, however, with RDO in its current state languishing far behind its GTA 5 sibling.
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