What could they do in a wild west game? What couldn't they do? - Lawmen/Marshal role - Oil business - Guarma smuggling business - Heists - More story missions - Investing in stores around the world for some passive income - Properties - Prospector role - Indian DLC (Native American, since, suprisngly, quite a few people don't know what the term "Indian" refers to) - Railway DLC This was a time of development and business opportunities.

It’s a sad thing seeing a game with so much potential go to waste, due to corporate greed and neglect.

RDR community: "rockstar..think for yourselves!" Take-Two: " he's lying H E E E E S L Y I N G!!"

When Pro said Rockstar wasn’t his favorite game company anymore, that hit me hard. It reminds me when I realized I was done with Rockstar and the greedy crap of a company.

The world in this game is so beautiful and realistic. It just sad that online ended this way.

You know there ain’t nothin’ right in the world when Rockstar isn’t The Professional’s favourite developer anymore

"Because it doesn't sell Shark Cards." The EXACT reason this happened. The ONLY reason.

I respect you for sticking it out this long. I stopped playing when they nerfed dailies & gold payouts. That was the only thing I continued logging in for & sometimes I’d come across something interesting & play longer. It was such a let down after story play.

The one guy at Rockstar games solely working on Red Dead Online: “I gave you all I had…”

RDO: “You left me! You left me to die!” Rockstar: “My boy... I didn’t have a choice...”

"13 bars for an emote!!" Emote: You gonna cry?

Truly breaks my heart for I was really in love with RdR2 online. Hundreds of hours of my life dedicated only to be treated as fodder for GTA5 online. It's sickening. I for one will no longer support such a company

Take Two is Micah, Rockstar is Duch, and red dead online is Arthur.

It’s sad that in the “outlaw game” you can’t do anything lawless, except 3 horrible jobs from blood money. That map is so big but there’s nothing to do in 80% of it. The game has literally turned into a fashion game, because all you can do in the endgame is dress up.

Red Dead Online died in beta when it released absent of Red Dead's single player features and took a whole year to receive a significant content update. In the meantime, animals disappeared from existence and the cash rewards for hunting/fishing were halved. The role system R* then added was objectively terrible. Collect collectibles, a knock off MC business and capture/kill an NPC. That update was bad, it is just that the bar was set so low for content that the RDO community lauded it. Its only redeeming feature was the Bounty Hunter special targets which played more like missions. The writing was on the wall that much of the development resources behind RDO were being pulled back to GTAO from the beta launch, and proven with every subsequent GTA content update. It shouldn't have took 10 months to fix the animal spawns, it shouldn't have took over a year to add multiplayer poker that existed even in the first Red Dead Redemption at launch. the updates that we did get shouldn't have been so underwhelming. And they wouldn't have been, had RDO had the same level of support that GTAO received from the beginning. RDO never did. All of the fallout with regards to RDO now is from the remaining player base that clung on to the desperate hope that RDO would improve. It isn't surprising to the overwhelming millions of players that had quit within the first few months up to the first update, who had identified what was happening, who were sounding the alarm only to be slammed as doomsayers by the same community that has caught up with the reality.

Congrats on a mil my guy

Red Dead gamers trying to get Rockstar to care about them: “We’re more like ghosts than people”

Their forced overuse of "capitalie" in the dialogue reminds me of the forced overuse of the word "Guerilla" in Far Cry 6. Spanish people hardly ever actually use that word so casually lmao.

I have some SERIOUS QUESTIONS . Why can’t we play poker in our camp with friends ? Why can’t we rob stores or trains like in story mode ? Why are there only 13 legendary bounties ? Why does the online story end after 2 chapters ? Why not add more ? Why is there only 3 jewel opportunities available ? Why cant I buy a husky or Australian Shepard for my camp , just because I’m newer to the game ? Why were all the cool masks removed from madam nazaar so quickly ? Why can’t we actually bond with wild horses ? & be able to sell rare ones if we find them ? Why does my Bandana get removed whenever I drink coffee? Why is poker in the saloons a complete joke ? Max $5 bet per hand ? Everyone just goes all in every hand . It’s a complete travesty. Make it like the story mode . Why is there no “side mission” story content?

You sir, have earned this like and subscribe. Thanks for all the hard work you put into airing the frustrations of so many people.

This commitment to honesty and integrity the professional has is sorely needed in the game industry. Thanks for being you dude.

I feel so bad for RDR2 and RDO, so much potential wasted. Especially when the map is as big as it is.

I absolutely love you man. You are a treasure among the gaming community, both for your many GTA tips I’ve copied and for your in-depth analysis on game mechanics, themes in the story, etc. Just realized you’re at 1mil subs. Completely deserved.

Thank you for awesome content ❤ I am a new Red Dead Online player and already seeing the lack of attention the game is getting, which is sad, cause the world is so amazing and immersive. It deserves big updates, but guess it's easier to sell Oppressor Mk 2 to kids

I actually thought that I did something wrong in the story mission or that it glitched and therefore couldn’t continue it. Now realising/hearing that it was never continued/finished is unacceptable.

Rockstar: You're like a SON to me (Months later): Have some FAITH SON! (Years later): I had a GOD DAMN PLAAN!! RDO Players Now: ... I gave you all I had

RDO would've seriously benefited from a settlement system. This is supposed to be the wild west, letting players build settlements on deeds of land that they purchased would give them a lot of stuff to invest in. There could've even been honorable/dishonorable settlements based on what buildings you purchased and built. Like a honorable one has a general stores, hotels, theaters, and farms. But a dishonorable one has fences, saloons, brothels, and predatory lending banks.

The daily gold nerf was the day I left and never came back.

"We’re thieves in a world that don’t want us no more."

As a GTAO player, to all the people who’ve spent so many hours grinding RDO I truly feel for you guys and I’m sorry that you guys have to out right quit playing it.

“Have you heard the tragic story of the game called Star Wars Galaxies?” 🥺😢😭

Thank you for making this video to raise awareness to rdo let’s hope they bring more content to rdo

This needs to go viral man it’s such a shame that rockstar can take 8 years to make an amazing story mode but for online they treated it like absolutely nothing

Fantastic video partner, thanks for using your platform to help spread the word on this 🙏

Loved the campaign for red dead 2, but I've kept my online expectations at a steady 0% since it came out. Glad I did. I guess they just don't see a way to profit off of it as easy as promising kids flying bikes that shoot missiles as soon as they dig through their parents wallets. Again great game, just not nearly enough love from the creators to keep it going. The community has already designed a 50 year plan for content updates, but rockstar will do what they do and completely ignore them because "that's the business" they've been steadily falling apart for the past couple years it would seem, but I guess that's what happens when you dedicate 90 percent of your workforce to a game that came out practically a decade ago.

I’d love to be able to get a farm and grow crops, raise cattle, be able to sell the goods. Maybe have a rodeo, barrel racing, or bull/bronco riding. Definitely bank robbing, or defending. Weapon for hire to help people travel across the frontier. Fishing tournaments, hunting tournaments, I mean damn introduce Indians and do something with that. I mean damn we could get a go to Mexico and expand the map my god. There is so much shit RDO has so much potential and things it could do but it won’t.

It's truly sad that this...THIS is what's happening Rockstar. I really do believe the only solution to their greed and neglect is to..stop playing their games. They listen to numbers not people. Great video btw Pro

Ryder: “I’m a mutha fuckin genius” **literally flips his boat and dies** Lmao 😂😂💀

You're absolutely right but it has been dead for a long while now and it's a real shame because this was the best games ever made. I'll never understand why they didn't care to further develop it like they did with GTA online

ironically enough, the characters were my favorite part about the story mode, and the player base is my favorite part about online. you get the bad with the good, but when it’s good, it’s DAMN good. yesterday i ended up in a 6 man posse and we took over saint denis, overran a train and rode it around the entire map, started bar fights, shit like that. just the amount of fun you can have with other people is reason enough for me to keep playing and keep the tiny amount of hope i have for the game.

"It's a business decision" Just ask them this. You walk into a sandwich shop, you tell them what you want, they make you a half assed burnt sandwich, would you pay full price for it? If a person said that Jimmy John's making half assed burnt sandwich is business decision, they would sound very unintelligent. Also hit them with Henry Ford's quote "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business" Rockstar is essentially Dutch Van Der Linde and Take Two is Micah pulling his strings

This is what happens when a company filled with passion(in the early days) is consumed with shit ton of success and revenue.Greed sure is killing the video games industry... (I feel bad for all the red dead players though)

Building your own shack/house would be fun! it would mirror the Dad and two sons stranger quest in the single player mode. Could also add in "Rancher" as a job that acts as a cover for moonshining/other jobs -also good for multiplayer looking after a ranch and defending it from cattle rustlers- hey there's ANOTHER job you can add in... there is literally SO MUCH they could do with this game and it's a shame because RDR2 is one of my ALL TIME favourite games, the single player was SO DAMN GOOD I had high hopes for RDO.

My experience with RDO was good, once I grinded out all the stuff I wanted. Getting there was another story, I almost resorted to cheating because it was agonizingly slow getting anything. I often found myself watching youtube while waiting for the countdown timer on my bounty to hit that "critical" point where I would get the max amount of money...

Imagine building such an immense and beautiful world and then doing next to nothing with it.

I just started playing, and got to around level 30. I've thoroughly enjoyed everything and I'm still very excited to log in everyday. That being said, it's a shame that they've all but abandoned the game. There's so much more that we could get out of a Wild West game like this that we just can't get anywhere else.

All of this needed to be said. Thank you.

This video is longer than replayability of rdo

7:20 Jessica LeClerk: (tearfully) "He deserved better than this, and this is what he got. This is what we all got..." It just hits differently now considering the current state of Red Dead Online.

this rant was justified and this makes me realize how fine the line is between art and a product for purchase

They should add a hot air balloon you can buy and fly around

I never understood why breaking 1 bottle of shine dropped the sale from $453 to$340.

PLEASE never stop making these pro

I left the game when they cutted the streaks for dailys down (was on something around 370) knowing, that this was the beginning of the end. And I NEVER logged in again after that. So sad to hear that it´s getting even worse after all that time. R* has slapped all the fans in their faces!

Great video, i agree. BTW started watching you recently because of the GTA Lore, the old games were pure top notch classics interpreting the mafia stories. Love your passion and style.

When CJ started flying like that actually some type of glitch that you could use for speed running

I am extremely disappointed and upset with Rockstar.

What an absolute shame. This game had so much potential

This whole video , front to end, was a valid point 💯💯💯

We waited YEARS for this game, as a lover of GTAO when this game first came out I was full stop ready to drop GTA and move onto RDR2..seeing it die like this is absolutely sad, the story was amazing and I truly thought the online was going to be even better. Hell, we all did. But we never got that.

16:02 should’ve included how players were forced to hunt outside of the map boundaries because animals had absolutely no problem spawning out there but not in the actual map. And how we had to launch missions but ignore the objective in order to get animals to spawn. God the devs are a joke

Thank you for sharing the facts

I see that u feel just like me, I feel hurt for what they do to one of the best games of the history, its a crime man, a crime. Ty for sharing your opinion, new sub ❤️

I, as of 6 months ago started playing Red Dead, and I particularly loved online. I wasn't active in any of the platforms where major announcements were posted, I had NO IDEA this was happening. I love the game, but when wind of this finally reached me under my little rock... I am ROYALLY pissed. I will probably continue to play the game, but to hear that it's being abandoned like this is awful, it has so much potential.

55:18 One more point to talk about Bethesda: they actively support the modding community for their older titles. No way mods like Tales of Two Wastelands, Skyblivion, or New Vegas in Fallout 4 would exist if Take Two published their titles. It might be heavily criticised now but they even let modders monetize their content instead of bullying them and sending lawyers to their house

Dude I love this videos because whether you defend the game or criticize it, we ALL feel the same inside. GTA DLC’s over time:📈 RDO DLC’s over time:📉

i saw someone say "rockstar doesnt have to update rdo becuase its a addon to rdr2" u can say that exact same thing about gtao

I have 657k and 2045 gold. Level 578 haven't playing for 8 months 🥺😭 I love this game so much but they really did kill this amazing beautiful game 🥺

I agree with everything you said! When I played online and got everything, there was a feeling of emptiness and soon I was back to having fun in Story Mode, there are dialogues and more secrets to discover. We have a huge map, but online there wasn't any big addition, DLC that changed scenery and brought up properties, there's a distinct lack of content and options.

I'm so disappointed, this might be the game with the most potential to have become a great online game, the massive map and beautiful graphics make for great spaces to roam and have stuff to do in. But they just refuse!!!

I have a theory on the take longer get rewarded more thing. I think rockstar did this on purpose to pad the perceived amount of play time each player spends playing the game and its different modes from a statistical point of view. I think it was a tactic meant to make it look like people are playing the game longer than they would otherwise. Better numbers would play out well in front of corporate and financial focused departments within the company, and likely buy rockstar more financial wiggle room from the higher ups who would think the game was doing well as a result.

Congratulations for your 1 Million subscribers

Nothing angers me more in this industry that fans who get mad at one point and then blindly get excited when something good comes and forget about all the bad things. And the people who defend the business practices because it makes them good money this way are just as infuriating. There are a lot of people in the gaming community in general that really needs to get out and touch some grass, maybe even eat some of it. R* isn't who they are anymore. Dan left and so did Leslie which was definitely said by you, but one thing interesting which you never mentioned in the video is that Dan and Leslie are making THEIR OWN studios now. Further cementing they needed out of R*. Why? Who knows? But I'm sure it's something to do with the corporate crap. I hope Sam can smell the coffee and get out too sometime soon.

I was never a big Red Dead Online player, but I used to play it a lot with my friends and we all had lots of fun with it, trying to lasso each other up building and riding wagons off cliffs. We were always waiting on new updates... but they never came or were bad, we tried to keep having fun, but eventually, one by one, we stopped playing, we haven't played an online game together in 2-3 years. I've never seen a game get so neglected, I agree with Professional's opinion, the game is dead.

As a long time GTAO player, with a high level, millions, and all properties, there's literally nothing for me to do in GTAO anymore that I don't get off after being on for more than 10 minutes unless I'm fighting griefers, a game as unique as RDO would be a huge breath of fresh air

You're the truth bro please keep speaking truth dont sugar coat shit bro I'm with you and so many other REAL FANS are too

The starting clip was perfect 😄🤣

GTA Online is literally the biggest reason they don't care. The GTA fanboys are just too numerous and a more casual audience, and Rockstar wants money.

Rockstar has become Dutch himself: promising heaven on earth and in the end going nuts and betraying everyone

56:47 what jacket is that?

What is missed in this synopsis is the impact of investors. Once investors get involved , the company is forced to squeeze as much profit out to enrich investors' pockets that the objective gets lost. They stop making creative and adventurous steps. Everything is calculated to make as much money off every unit "player" as possible.

I have an idea for how they could bring players back to RDO Wild West Heist expansion You get to do 5-10 heists with a story that connects you with the single player story of Rdr2. Here’s how I would do it. 1. Classic train robbery- a contact for Leviticus Cornwall meets you with an offer to work a string of robberies for Leviticus Cornwall and get rich. The contact decides to test your capabilities by having you rob the train of one of Cornwall’s business rivals. Goes similar to the first train robbery in Rdr2. 2. Rob the Bank in Valentine 3. Rob the Bank in Rhodes 4. Rob the Visitor Center in strawberry 5. Rob the Bank in Saint Denis 6. Boat robbery 7. Steal weapons from the Army to help Natives for Eagle Flies (high honor) 8. Steal artifacts from natives to help the Army claim land for Colonel Favors (low honor) 9. Hired by Dutch Van der Linde to help with the Blackwater job. You get your cut and have to fight your way out from the Pinkertons. You go to Mrs. Le Clerk for help and she gets you out of trouble, but only if you agree to do a heist for her. 10. Sisika Assassination- Mrs. Le Clerk sends your group to kill the last of her targets. However, her quarry is investing in the Annesburg mines and is very difficult to get to. She’s currently shacking up with the Prison Warden on Sisika island. Mrs. Le Clerk has you smuggle weapons to a point where an inside man has them ready for you. She turns you all in to get close to the target. Inside man starts a riot and gives you your guns. Then you fight your way through the prison and kill the last target. You escape and get paid. Le Clerk and Horley say their goodbyes and live happily ever after.

You hit the nail on the head. The same reason I quit playing gta. I already had everything I ever really wanted. But that took a couple of years. In red dead redemption online it only took me 6 months to get everything I wanted and there's nothing really to aim for anymore.

Rockstar to Red Dead is like a narcissistic sociopathic boyfriend. Promises. Promises. All lies! Us RDR2 players have been waiting years for them to follow through. Rockstars telling us they don’t give a shit. We need to believe them this time.

My issue with poker in the game was that I couldn't go "all in" from the start, party chats disabled, and required a separate lobby to spawn in when one should just be able to move the poker table to the moonshine shack.

Rockstar wasn't a company, it was the people who worked there. I'll bet most of what we love about "Rockstar" left long ago

Great video Pro

when he showed the moonshiner cutscene i got a firefighter ad..

It's incredibly sad that a game that I love so much, that I have defended countless times saying things like "This happened with GTAO too, it just takes a while for the updates to get good" has just been killed by the people in charge. The potential with this beauty of a game is limitless, but the lack of commitment is saddening.

This game could be great if rockstar would listen to the community. The community as a whole has been let down. Subsections of this community has been screwed worst such as the PvP community who enjoys showdown and has never had their grievances answered as far as special edition is concerned. This community is a good one but rockstar has squandered any opportunity they had with this game…

Great video! I love Red Dead but I agree with everything you said. Rockstar is an absolute embarrassment of a company that seems to despise its own fans. They are pathetic

im glad to see the professional talk about this as rockstar need to up their game and focus on rdo to improve community and gameplay

I can relate to rockstar no longer being my favourite developer. They made my favourite racing game of all time, midnight club Los Angeles, and I was heartbroken when I found out they weren’t making another one. I could get a taste of what could’ve been if they made a new one through the gta updates (especially the tuners update) but it wasn’t the same. Now after all the bs they’ve been pulling with gta online, the trilogy and e&e I’ve lost all respect for them. Truly sad to see what greed does to a company. I hold EA to a higher standard than rockstar now, as weird as that seems.

Ever since Dan Houser left Rockstar, Red Dead online was starting its decline I know that there are a lot of people who are very passionate about Red Dead online but at this point I just really just stopped caring. There really is no point at being angry at a company that's just not listening to you the only real way to screw them over is to completely stop playing their games altogether but since there seems to be a lot of people who have cognitive dissonance its completely impossible. We can try but in the end we can't really win and the only thing we can do is to just go with the flow or hope something happens.

That ending scene between Aurther and Micha was perfect for this.

The fact that they apparently don't have enough resources to update red dead but can give a new update to GTA every week really shows were there priorities are at

I've never really played RDO but I will say, RDR2 is my favorite game of all time. It's a real shame that they are destroying it like this. My goal was to get every single Steam achievement for the game (of which I have all but 2 story achievements left)(including online achievements) but honestly, I don't think I'll have time if it's going this way I bet it's going to be taken offline before I could complete them all.

It’s is so sad what rockstar has done to red dead online. I have always tried to convince friends to come and play but the lack of content makes the hard to do so. Alongside gta players saying the game is shit. Eventually I got a crew together and had a lot of fun. As time went on people left and new ones came. Unfortunately I am the last one of this group and even I find it hard to get on. I will miss you red dead.

🙏 you were a great game and I am sad to see you go my friend

One of the best things I've heard in 2021 is that Rockstar Died in 2017. It is now, Cockstar.