Sadly I'm cutting out the Naturalist part of the video since Rockstar copyrighted it. And I don't want my entire video getting copyrighted for a 30 second clip. So if you notice a weird gap between Rockstar not fixing bugs and the bounty hunter update thats why. To sum up that part though Rockstar didn't properly update the game for 7 months then randomly added the Naturalist role as an update. Which most players including myself found dissapointing. Hopefully you guys can understand why I'm deciding to remove it and most importantly can still enjoy the video without it

I can't think of a game that pissed me off more than RDO because every moment you played it, you knew just how awesome it COULD be but also knew it NEVER would be.

I miss playing RDO with the buds but man... Rockstar really dropped the ball and the bar on this.

Imagine how RDR2 would be if Rockstar put as much time and effort into it as they do with GTA

All the fanbase really wanted were train robberies, bank robberies, and properties (like ranches)... Rockstar Games just remained completely clueless about all of it. 😑😔

And the sad part is; as soon as GTA6 releases, everyone is gonna jump ship and forgive Rockstar for everything. It's exactly what Rockstar wants and it's exactly what they know's gonna happened. Rockstar gets away with everything and it sucks.

My god, I played this with my father and his online friends for hundreds of hours, we had a posse called the Regulators, we Bounty Hunted and helped people out for the most part, most importantly we all wore the same badass outfit… rest in peace Dad…

The biggest problem with RDO is that it was never "at it's prime" or has "peaked". During it's entire lifespan it was always "getting there" with rockstar not knowing how to handle it. Even after all the updates the game was still mostly empty. Where are the properties and heists? GTAO was only really complete after the heist update. Which took them years. Rockstar doesn't know how to handle any online mode.

I remember falling in love with rdr1 and thinking it couldn’t be bested. Then undead nightmare came out and shattered my world. A dlc that was more fun than a AAA game. I do not understand why it wasn’t done for the sequel. Painfully sad. R* is losing its luster

I played Red Dead Online since the beta and it is quite sad to see the game where it is now. All the memories I made with friends just grinding the game. We would do bounties, moonshine wagons, and trader wagons. Even though Red Dead Online was a bad game; it left good memories on a lot of folk.

For me, the biggest problem is not finishing what was started, online has a lot of features that should have been put in story mode. Small stuff like removing the secondary holsters, but looking back the story mode wasn’t even done yet, there should’ve been an update, let us go back to Guarma, put in deleted content. Then put in the good things from Online. I didn’t play online much, but when I did, I couldn’t have fun because you couldn’t achieve anything. I only played the game because; “Wow! Full fledged gun spinning? That’s awesome!” Then I got it and I never played again because I couldn’t even do it as Arthur so who cares.

I got RDR2 in October 2022 from the steam sale and I am so sad that I missed out on the better era of RDO. It's so fun to play with my friends but after a while it's so easy to lose interest because of how lackluster the missions are compared to the main story. Also, it's difficult for a casual gamer to play solo because of how many hackers there are. I really wish Rockstar didn't abandon the game :(

rdr2o was so incredible at its peak i remember hopping on with my friends and being so excited for the new content drops, but now i have everything in the game with nothing new to do

the greatest game that never was, could have been so much more. i’ll never forgive them or let them forget this

I first started playing rdr2 maybe 7 or 6 months ago and I absolutely loved the story. When I first got into rdo soon after I struggled so much to the point where I just decided to drop 5 or 10 dollars for some gold bars so I could get a bounty license and some drip. I started having fun just doing bounties so I could get more money for clothes and guns but the world felt so empty and underdeveloped compared to how it is in the story. Most towns were filled with griefers and my game would crash a lot, and I play on a ps5. I think I’m around level 40 now but I haven’t played in a couple months because I was tired of grinding trader. I really wanted to get a bounty wagon and some more gun tricks but I guess I have to get the bs advanced bounty license or whatever it is

I was ALWAYS hoping they'd introduce cryptids to the game around Halloween...Can you imagine riding your horse through the wilderness at night and all of a sudden a huge Wendigo starts chasing you through the forest! Or you're able to hunt a Yeti in the high snowy mountains, discover there's a Werewolf lurking around the Wapiti Reservation, or investigate mysterious killings in Tumbleweed to find out it's a Chupacabra! The things they could do with that would be endless!

this makes me so sad and mad at the same time. this game could’ve had so much potential 😭

I remember having no animals spawning even with the frontier pursuits. It took me several months just to reach max rank 20 in trader because of no animal spawn. I haven’t touched online since November 2021 even then I was hardly playing it before that.

RDO was the one game that truly could of been my ultimate game to play, but Rockstar completely killed it. It's really bizzare how they spent so much time and money on making the game only to turn around and ditch it after

I’m still enjoying my time in red dead, I try not to get to upset about the lack of content and ruin it for myself so instead I turn the hud off and just immerse myself in the world with no real end game goal, just running my businesses and existing in the world, cause it will be a long time before we get another world as beautiful as this. Wish rockstar wouldn’t have left this game behind

This was depressing. That game had a special place in my heart. Now it's nothing

Seeing this game from start to end really hits hard, out of all my friends I was the only one who kept faith 😂 Playing it now just feels like a “ghost town”. Disappoints me R* abandoned the game after the naturalist update and just gave us weekly discounts and the terrible rewards like capitale 💀

Well said bud. Unfortunately this is the day and age we're in. These corporations don't care about the gaming community just lining their pockets by pushing micro transactions down our throats.

I played from day one and at the beginning there was basically nothing to do and the pay outs were horrendous. It really started gaining momentum with Frontier Pursuits and Moonshiners. They are both great updates and they added cool stuff like being able to play with the band in your bar. It seems after the moonshiners dlc they decided to stop supporting it. Weird because that’s when the game was gaining momentum.

I remember when you could see everyone kinda miss those days RIP to my Friend Bo that I met on this game

I agree with most of what you said but I still enjoy playing any chance I get. If I can lose myself for a couple hours and forget about what’s going on in the world today it’s worth it to me. I’ll play till they shut it down.

I've only started playing RDO because my cousin wanted someone to play with. Also I've gotten every single story achievement and all that's left are online ones... It was utter disappointment. I ran into bugs the very first day I started playing. One of the most infuriating bugs was the stable glitch. For some players going into the stables at all can softlock your game. You have to restart completely. I tried call to Arms. Incredible amount of bugs. Either the enemies would stop spawning all together, or only 2 at a time on my teamate every 15s. Only one that seemed to work for me was Fort Mercer. I don't mind the gameplay. It's just the bugs that kill me. And I've only explored a handful of the game too. Imagine all the bugs I haven't had simply because I haven't explored. For a 5 year old game, you'd think important bugs would be fixed. Guess not. edit: new bugs found. There's a bug with the wilderness camp where you'll get stuck in an infinite loading screen when using sometimes. There's a bug with the legendary animal missions in naturalist where you are spawned in and can hear people, ambience, etc. but an infinite loading screen is overlaying that. I had to pull up the menu and navigate it blindy to online and rejoin a different session... There's a bug when selling and delivering goods where the rest of the raiders won't spawn...

The no animal spawn bug is one that started very early on for a lot of people including myself... it was the main reason I stopped playing in the first place. I came back when roles were added, but again with no animal spawning, the trader role was painful and I stopped playing and never came back that time around.

I just started playing RDO and honestly despite the fact there aren't many (friendly) players that I've met, I'm still having a shit ton of fun.

I remember earning up to 11 gold a day it was insane. Then nerfing the gold and not giving content made no sense

I used to joke with my friends that I was getting on rdo "for an honest living" It has so much potential, all I wanted was to get my own spot not just a camp. And a continuation of the online story

This game still has so much potential. In my opinion it has more potential then gta online ever will

I just started playing red dead online and I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m super overwhelmed, but I just want more red dead in my life.

Thanks for taking the time. Appreciate the input.

It's sad that they abandoned this game. i started playing again recently because i was curious if they changed anything. met a couple of really nice people to play with, been playing it every day and still having a lot of fun ( we do make game modes ourself in game)

thanks. i only played this for a couple weeks but i put a ton of hours into the first and second single player campaigns including UN. This game will always have a special place in my heart.

So sad best game I ever played. If Rockstar don't want it anymore , they simply sell it to some other company who needs it and who can handle its legacy well. I will die for Rdr3 or extensions that tell story about Charles, Sadie and all forgotten Characters so much potential in this game.

This type of commentary video is what's going to get you noticed and get you subscribers. Keep at it

I still play online, with my friends who occasionally join. I love the aesthetics of the game ❤ hate pvp, just love riding around and hanging out in the game :) still truly love all the horses my main fav is the big shire horse that is black with white spots and white mane n tail! His name is Hephaestus.

i miss the game so much. i've been attempting to play it every couple weeks since they announced they were pretty much abandoning the game, and it has been impossible. either a game-breaking bug (like the stable bug, my horse being invisible, NPCs being invisible, etc.) happens less than 5 minutes into gameplay, a shit-ton of glitches occur, both happen at once, or on the rare occasion i can actually play the game for more than 30 minutes until i get bored. it's so saddening to see a game with such great prospect just go down the drain because of sheer laziness.

Imagine if R* shifted all the online content back into the story.....you know, the part of the game people actually want to play!

Good breakdown. Do more like this and in sure your channel will blow up!

Also kind of poetically matches the theme of the story too. The ending of the wild west and the birth of the modern world. From peaceful nature with outlaws & heroes sprinkled throughout. To big bright steel cities teeming with psychopaths lol.

The sad thing about Rockstar is, with RDR2 the have a really beautiful pearl in their portfolio and they could have made it one of the prettiest games ever (single & Multiplayer) but when greed rule your life, yeah, dead game.

Dope video. It's also worth mentioning the current state of the game. 90% of the player base are hackers. The last of the loyal fans can't even enjoy the game when everyone in matchmaking has God mode on.

Nice video,summed up RDO perfectly

Easily the game with the most potential I've ever seen. Sadly not much of it was ever realized.

Ngl its kinda sad seeing that a game with so much potential was wasted

I started RDO a week ago and I really like it, for a new player its not bad

I loved this game so much there really is nothing else like it but at a certain point even with friends playing there was nothing left to do. At the end I would get on to do dailys and just patrol my camp for about 30 minutes before quitting cause I just love the atmosphere but that could only keep me for so long. RIP to a fun time for sure

They had an entire world at their disposal. Fans where very vocal on what they wanted, and they decided to do nothing. I have boat loads of memories from that game, and wish there could have been more, but sadly it won't.

What is sad is that Cockstar could have had 2 successful online games if they treated RDO anywhere as good as they treat GTAO. A company like them with 4000 developers could have assigned maybe 300 to 500 to work solely on RDO. That final statement Cockstar puts out really says it all. They never intended long term support for RDO and because of how they have treated the game and also their customers I will never buy anything from Cockstar in the future. I have lost complete trust in that company

People make fun of rdo for the same growing pains gta online went through, and still has, like the overpriced items and the small amount of money you made from heists when they were added.

On a brighter note this game does really give you that felling like "Our time has passed" despite i just casually join the game back in December two years ago.

I hate Battle Royale, not just as a game style but for all the damage it did to perfectly good games as devs jumped on that bandwagon and made everything have a Battle Royale game. N1Z1 single/co-op got completely abandoned in favor of BR.

Pretty good video man hope it gets more views I joined rdo like a month after it’s last update so I missed out on a lot of hype and excitement and got a dead game

It’s a real shame because I’ve been playing red dead online more than ever recently. So much to do. But I can see the roles slowly maxing out and the money becoming more useless and eventually I know there will be nothing left to be on for… if only they just did a fraction of the gtaO dlcs

I'm sad that i never got to experience the game at its peak... I love the quality of your video though! keep on the grind brother!

My wife and I had so much fun playing RDR2 online when it first came. So many great memories we used to get gitty on the potential it had. To see it not get the attention it needed to become the next gta was disheartening for me and her

It's a shame that frontier pursuits was rdos peak because at the time it felt like the beginning

It was fun while it lasted. Now i just feel sorry for the people that are still grinding

I never got into RDO, I agree wholeheartedly with your opening comment about it feeling like a hollow shell of single player. Also, as a former World of Warcraft junkie the whole concept of daily quests and grinding the same missions for experience is something that I am completely over. To me the greatest tragedy of RDO is that no single player dlc or updates were released.

Rockstar basically gave RDO a case of TB, and it’s been slowly dying a choking, spluttering death ever since. 😑🤨

What really killed RDO for me, is on PC it is riddled with hackers that will just blow up the server over and over again, or spawn legendary animal pelts so people can just unlock all the special outfits with Gus. After my 5th trader wagon was blown up, I had it, wrote a ticket about it to RS and never heard anything back... Really broke my heart because I was a day one loyal player.

RDO Had so much potential…

Man I miss playing RDO with this dude i had met. We would both just be running around shooting up towns and would always help each other when one of us was in a fight. That shit was fun as hell.

Played it for months daily during pandemic in 2020. It was so fun. Made a crew of friends online to play regularly with. Stopped playing early 2021. Haven’t played once since April or may 2021.

it makes me so mad, rockstar doesn’t seem to realise that the red dead IP is so much better (story and quality wise) than GTA. the GTA games are good but none of them carry the same weight and beauty red dead redemption (especially 2) has. and it sucks to know they only care about money

Now imagine how much the next GTA game is going to be milked. I feel like the next GTA is going to be the last rockstar game.

Nice video I remember playing with a short lived posse called the blood hunters, we all met in black water there was a massive shootout cuz lots of people had the police on them and we were all there and everything devolved into chaos, people were shooting at cops, friendly firing each other by accident, and shooting npcs which brought more cops, it was fun

It’s very sad for a player who has been pretty much playing since late 2021 seeing a game they adore being abandoned and tossed away, red dead has some great potential because it’s different and so cool… I still remember the day when I got red dead redemption 2 and how excited I was for red dead online… now I’m sad that my fav game was abandoned

The development of GTA 6 has killed Gta online (There's like only 1 developer working on gta online right now), Killed red dead online and Killed the red dead redemption 1 remaster I hope gta 6 is good because rockstar has just completely gutted every other game to work on GTA 6

GTAV is Rockstar's Skyrim. Ages old, ported to anything but the kitchen sink, and they just prefer to do minimal work for that instead of releasing an actually new game. GTA6? Maybe? Sometime? Elder Scrolls 6? When Hell freezes over.

If gta or rdr online had your characters talk I think people would enjoy it a little more. Sometimes just riding through the map is kinda depressing

I saw this video in my feed and while watching it I remembered how much I used to play this game with my friend. It was just me and him messing around and having the time of our lives. We literally stayed up nights grinding and I specifically remember us collecting cards to sell them using the map that shows you were they are, I would follow him the first time around then he would follow me the second time around. Then he got a girlfriend and life kinda just……happened. I’m gonna miss those days so much.

I started with rdo a month ago with my friends, it is eigendlich quite nice.

I still play it everyday lol.. y’all kill me with this dead online shit.

getting a GTA Online ad before the video is really telling

It’s so sad to see so many people not playing this game because of the lack of content.. in online I still find funny things to do and hidden areas to explore with glitches, it’s still really fun till this day making an entire outfit with my crew so we all match and can take over towns. I love it..

They needed an Undead Nightmare

Gun Rush was the best!

Never played it but sucks how they did RDRO players. Great video brother.

The thing that always kept me away was the ridiculously OP Aim Assist, you couldnt go anywhere without being headshottet instantly

It’s never been more popular than it is now 😁👍

English is not my native language, but I hope you understand. Red Dead Redeption 2 is like Arthur Morgan: A tough guy that you don't like at first, but after a few hours you won't forget him. Red Dead Online is like Micah Bell: A damn greedy rat who only wants one thing. Your money and that you are miserable.

i bought rdr when i didnt have my pc in July of 2019, and now i finally bought one, rockstar drops the game. this game will always one of my favorite games, if not my favorite. the aesthetics, visuals, and just the look of the game get me every single time. the immersive main storyline, not to mention the online one too. it’s a shame rockstar wants more money than to make a game that is full of potential; a true game that everyone and their mother talks about. i don’t play much, but this game always holds a place in my heart

They desperately needed careers/missions involving train robberies, bank robberies, cattle rustling and more. Properties would have been nice but the camp is good enough. Since they've abandoned it, they should reduce the prices of everything or at least double payouts of missions etc.

Great video man! Keep it up

i have a group, we still play this despite the lack of content we just find our own way to have fun. we play on PC to say its a struggle.

It's 2023 and you still cannot rob banks in RDO. Let that sink in

The very small update this past christmas was a lot of fun. Met a lot of new friends playing for the first time in awhile. such a shame they just abandoned it.

I fell asleep a few minutes into this video but woke up and finished it at the end. I figured you should know this.

This is quite sad because RDO is still going strong in terms of players. This year, red dead redemption 2 (and online) had high sales during discount season. When I wander around RDO, most players I see are below level 50, very rarely I see anyone in a lobby above level 50. At one point, the highest i've seen in a full lobby was 80. Pretty surreal

Oh my goodness bro you didn’t need to end on that scene, and that music. … 😢

I remember playing up until moonshine update and coming back like a year later and being so disappointed that the only things to do were exactly the same a year ago

I haven't played RDO for over a year, but after watching this, I'm gonna go back and play!

I litterally met a guy that teleported in front of me, gave me loot, shot me, spawned a legendary alligator, and then spawned a horse and I just left with it. And then I did an archery tournament where some guy was hacking with explosive arrows.

Awesome video man 👍🏾

The definition of "missed potential"

Been 4 years since I stop playing rdr2 but I feel like I haven't miss nothing much