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Strauss Zelnick, the boss of Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two, has pushed back at the suggestion Red Dead Online was a missed opportunity, insisting it “has been immensely successful and long lasting.”
Red Dead Online is the standalone multiplayer component of Rockstar’s 2018 masterpiece, Red Dead Redemption 2. While Rockstar initially released significant updates for the game, the last major content expansion for Red Dead Online was the Blood Money update released in July 2021. Since then, Rockstar has focused on a monthly event schedule. Last year’s Strange Tales of the West update came as a welcome surprise that sparked hope for more significant updates to come, but none have materialized.
And so, the consensus among its community is that Red Dead Online hasn’t enjoyed quite the same amount of attention that GTA Online, the multiplayer component of 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V, has. When last month’s Rockstar leak, which came from a data theft by hackers, revealed that GTA Online eclipses Red Dead Online in terms of revenue and player numbers, fans weren’t surprised at all, with many pointing out that Red Dead Online hadn’t seen any content updates in some time, and that it suffers from a significant griefing
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