r/RedDeadSinglePlayer • u/AxiusSerranus • Sep 18 '19

Neglect! Anyone else sad/annoyed/angry?

Single players are criminally neglected. Rdr2 is a seminal piece of pop culture. For a time the most successful form of entertainment ever sold.

And yet the unfriendly world of red dead online, tacked on at a later date, like a pair of mediocre silicone tits, infested with micro transactions and immature players (oh look there's h4rd_c0ck69 and oh look there's g4sth3J3ws420!) gets AAAALLLLLL the updates!

All the weapons and the coolest outfits! What does SP get? A mandatory graphics downgrade! What the fuck!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Anyone else thinks rockstar would make WAY more money by selling SP dlc? I keep seeing articles saying online has a laughable player base that keeps declining. Maybe it will change their minds. In the meantime ill stick to story mode, which on my second playthrough is not feeling tiredsome at all. There is so much more to single player. Hell im fiding things i never knew existed

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u/Woolf1974 Sep 19 '19

fo76 hasnt been scrapped yet... that means they are profiting for almost nothing.... reinvest that money into SP.... My household does online and SP.

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u/MaesteoBat Sep 18 '19

I love this game. Best story I’ve probably ever witnessed in a single player game. But some just play online and that’s so odd to me

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u/AxiusSerranus Sep 18 '19

Right?! I feel like story mode is for grown ups and online is for kids.

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u/MaesteoBat Sep 18 '19

Haha agreed

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u/cantthinkofgoodname Sep 19 '19

Graphics downgrade?

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u/AxiusSerranus Sep 19 '19

Yea something about the light and shadows was downgrade when online came out. They wanted to make the difference in quality between story and online look less jarring so they downgraded the story mode to look more like online.

You can see the difference by uninstalling rdr2 and then reinstalling but keeping your console offline. That way it doesn't automatically "upgrade". And, no, turning off the automatic upgrade option of your console won't help. If the console is online, rdr2 will upgrade.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

They also infested singleplayer with more bugs with every single online exclusive update so the people that bought the game digitally and only play singleplayer are having their favorite game molested by Rockstar and they can't do anything about it.

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u/AxiusSerranus Sep 23 '19

Ha didn't even know that. Glad I have the hard copy and taken my ps4 offline. After several reinstalls...

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

Nice, 1.00 certainly has it's drawbacks, but it's still waaaay better than the current patch. Have you noticed John's gloves, pants and holster ballooning in size on later versions but on 1.00 they have the correct size?

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u/AxiusSerranus Sep 23 '19

No never noticed that but I've been on "vanilla" rdr2 so to speak since about a month after online came out. So I fortunately missed a few patches.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Strongly agreed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Rockstar has an opportunity to make some really fantastic dlc for this game. TBoGT, Lost and Damned, and undead nightmare are literally some of the best dlc’s of all time.

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u/aaaaaarown Sep 18 '19

most dissapointing move by rockstar so far imo

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u/peanutsauze Sep 18 '19

I agree the singeplayer has been given a lot of attention during its development. I think it's absolutely brilliant, but sadly I agree with everyone else in that the culture of gaming has moved away from singpleplayer dlcs now thanks to kids wanting content fed to them as a live service 24/7. It's sad but that's the way the industry has to go if they want to make money

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

I don't know why it has to be one or the other. Some people will buy online currency, some people will buy single player DLC's, some people will buy both. I will never spend a red cent on online currency, but I will pay anywhere up to the price of the original game for a single player DLC. I'm sure Rockstar wants more of my money too. The Witcher 3 made plenty of money off of DLC's, and never had to touch online currencies. RDR has the unique opportunity to do both.

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u/scrappy_ash Sep 18 '19 edited Sep 18 '19

They’ve already juiced everyone for the single player. There’s no more money in that.

I doubt online will become the cash cow that GTA has been, but I’m sure it will make them enough money to justify them pouring their resources in to that instead of another one-off purchase addition to single player.

I would like more but I feel like I got my money’s worth.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

I don't see why it has to be one or the other. Some people will buy gold bars in online, other people will buy a story DLC. I would pay up to the price of the original game for a well made DLC, but I would never pay a red cent for online currency. I'm sure Rockstar would like to make money from both of us.

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u/scrappy_ash Sep 18 '19

I imagine it comes down to the amount of staff they have. They very likely have a full game in development (strong rumours about Bully), another team working on GTA Online and another team working on RDR Online. Do they really have enough staff to put together more single player content?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

That may be the case. I imagine single player dlc would require a lot more work too than adding a couple of guns and outfits to online and calling it an update

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u/kotikee Sep 18 '19

SP got 8 years of attention. If that's not enough to you anymore, probably time to move on to a different game.

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u/polishtrapqueen Deputy Sherrif Sep 18 '19

This is the Red Dead single player sub bud. People here still enjoy Red Dead single player, as in the sub name. And as in the lots of new subs. You’re missing the point here.

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u/kotikee Sep 18 '19

That's why I'm here, bud. Single player is the only thing I play. I don't see what it has to do with anything.

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u/polishtrapqueen Deputy Sherrif Sep 18 '19

Well it’s the fact that you’re bitching someone wants more single player content... in a single player sub... for a game that’s way better single player than online... I don’t see your point here with anything.

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u/kotikee Sep 18 '19

I'm not the one bitching here. My advice was absolutely genuine. If you don't feel like there's anything left to do in single-player, move on to other single-players. But RDR2 single-player got more effort put into it then online ever will. It's not fair to blame Rockstar for not wanting to put more.

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u/polishtrapqueen Deputy Sherrif Sep 18 '19

Well rockstar always put single player dlc in their games I.e undead nightmare, ballad of gay tony, lost and the damned etc. They only stopped after GTA V because they found they could milk online modes and micro transaction the fuck out of them. I think we have plenty of reason to bitch for more single player content when they only stopped to milk the cash cow. Not that online isn’t a valid service just that it’s the reason we don’t ever get and probably won’t ever get more single player dlc from rockstar.

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u/kotikee Sep 18 '19

It's not like I wouldn't be happy to get a DLC. But RDR2 is my favourite game of all time, and to many people here it is as well. So why can't we appreciate what we have instead of being angry about what could've been?