Why Rockstar Games Hasn’t Made Single-Player DLC for GTA 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2

porkChop10h ago

Red Dead Online is not a massive success. There’s a reason they had stopped advertising GTA Online for a while and started pushing RDO super hard. There’s a reason you can buy RDO standalone but not GTA Online. RDO has players, but it never really took off like GTA Online did.

When RDO first came out it was fun, but really difficult to earn any money, and everything was like 100x more expensive than in the SP. When players complained, Rockstar said they wanted the game to be fun for the community so they would listen to the feedback and rework the in-game economy.

Rockstar reworked the economy alright, they made it significantly *harder* to earn any money and slashed the sell values of everything. Since then they’ve continuously cut the values of the animals people were hunting and even made them less likely to spawn. For months they removed a ton of animal spawns entirely and said it was a “bug”. They’ve tried to stranglehold the community and force them to buy currency.

That’s why RDO never took off. Everything people don’t like about GTA Online is 10x worse in RDO. Aside from hardware constraints, that’s another big reason why Rockstar is so focused on GTA Online now and aren’t in a rush to release GTA VI yet. They know they can’t abuse the community, and they know they won’t be able to replicate GTA Online’s success.

Why Rockstar Games Hasn’t Made Single-Player DLC for GTA 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2
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