Rockstar has declared a new Featured Series in Red Dead Online, where it pays hilariously quadruple the standard RDO$ and XP, with a double bonus on drugs! Winning the Who Me Emote after clinching a match in the Series sounds like a decent reward. But honestly? The community reaction is not related to Red Dead at all.
Immediately, players take this announcement to demand GTA VI news. As soon as Rockstar posted about the Red Dead event, the mob of comments clamoring for GTA6 updates began. One user went with, “This is no GTA6,” followed by some crying emoji, practically setting the tone for most people in the replies.
And the friends don’t really stop there. The thread is loaded with players begging for just about anything about the next GTA installment. One desperate cry based on the previous thread reads: “PLEASE DO NOT DELAY 6 AGAIN I BEG YOU, please prove everyone wrong.” Another funny threat comes to my mind courtesy of one user who says, “Release the gta6 trailer 3 or I will not be buying more shark cards in gta online.. don’t test me!”
Now to comment on the other happenings in the replies beside GTA 6 requests. A few players express frustration regarding Rockstar’s handling of Red Dead Online while another player states, “This will NOT #SaveRedDeadOnline!” meaning that even with those spiked rewards, the game mode may still not be getting enough attention in the eyes of some players. Another asks for a PS5 version of Red Dead Redemption 2, so hey, it’s pretty much relevant!
Language barriers also meant some interesting moments. Several Arabic-speaking users are requesting Rockstar to add Arabic language support for the website and in the games, one was like, “Add Arabic language in your website,” and another issued hashtags #WeneedRockstargamesinArabic and #WewantGTA6inTurkish. This led to the bizarre comment where someone told another user to “Learn English nigga,” which… not cute, obviously, but just paints how wide one Rockstar’s international audience really is.
Then we got a break on racing wheels. Two of those guys are arguing back and forth about whether GTA needs wheel support, with one saying “gta6 is going for more realism”, and the other one replying “GTA isn’t a racing/driving game.” They are basically talking about something else, and this happens so often on Twitter that one finds it almost endearing.
Some players are done, with one stating simply, “We don’t care about this,” regarding the news about Red Dead Online. Another cracked a joke about not “wasting what’s left of my hands on this dumb shit,” which, honestly, sometimes sums up the plight of grinding in online games.
What’s funny is that a single tweet about those Red Dead Online bonuses has turned into one perfect little microcosm of everything going on in the vast Rockstar community right now. You’ve got desperate hopefuls for GTA 6, Red Dead Online players feeling all types of neglected, language accessibility activists, and just randoms arguing about peripheral compatibilities. Yep, it’s all here in one messy, beautiful, and chaotic Twitter thread.
Rockstar finds itself in a weird place, trying to support its existing games while the players have their eyesight firmly locked on what’s next. It’s an extremely generous quadruple bonus by the means of Red Dead Online-quadruple RDO$ and XP ain’t nothing to scoff at-and bestow upon the winner of a match a free emote just for kicks. But when your studio’s playerbase is this starved for any shred of information regarding your upcoming grand production, even hefty updates to your current big-ticket titles begin to feel inconsequential.
More or less, the Rockstar Company has gone silent on GTA 6 ever since that initial trailer dropped, obviously creating a vacuum that fans are trying to fill with speculation, demands, and sometimes just outright begging. Every Rockstar tweet becomes an opportunity to ask about the next game, regardless of what the actual tweet is about.
In the end of the day, the Red Dead Online event is now live with tons of highly boosted rewards for any player willing to come forward. From what we could tell, the Who Me Emote looks refreshing enough, and any extra cash is always welcomed. But if Rockstar expected this announcement to spark excitement for Red Dead Online specifically…well, judging by those replies, they might have overly met their own expectations.
It’s nice to watch though – really, something with which the future project of a game company is so anticipated that it overshadows anything else they are currently doing. Rockstar is probably used to this diligently by now, given the sheer magnitude of the GTA franchise, but the demand seems to be reaching new heights of intensity as we draw closer to whenever the actual launch of GTA 6 is going to be.
So if you still play Red Dead Online, now is the best time to jump on and collect those increased rewards. And those queuing up for GTA 6 news just like everybody else in the replies… well, at least you’re not the only ones on that boat.
