Rockstar Games has announced a new bonus event focused on the Bounty Hunter character in Red Dead Online. The event involves tripling normal rewards for regular bounties and offering double normal ones for Legendary and Infamous targets, in addition to slight reductions on Bounty Hunter Licenses. While this event is included in the regular weekly update for the online cowboy game, the community’s response was mostly about asking for news regarding Grand Theft Auto VI and other titles.
So Rockstar handles this tweet, right? All roads lead to enticing those outlaws at Red Dead Online with 3X cash and XP. Surely, it was a much-anticipated week for bounty hunters. A license discount, double gold on legendary targets – it is the sort of things that usually persuade even the toughest cowboys and their gentle cowgirls to hit the trail. But you just scroll down… and to your surprise! The comments section looks like a scene from the Wild West where everybody has their unique wanted poster and it is not for any bounty in Rhodes.
The very first reply literally sets the mood. Terry Dang says, “time to dust off the lasso.” That is the mood! That is exactly what Rockstar wishes to see. An enthusiastic player who is eager to return. But then it just… goes out of control. Instantly. The very next comment? “put traxNyc in Gta6 it would be legendary.” Wait! We are talking about lassos and horses and… oh, we are already talking about GTA 6. That was quick.
And indeed, the flow does not stop. “Gta news! No,” a user posts along with a crying emoji. “Just released gta 4 to ps5 we need it so badly ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜,” another one pleads. “Y the gold not 3x too?????!!!!” asks Dlafeu, rightfully, but also rather disregarding the crisis at the center of it. The crisis being that the entire commenting community has been seized by demands for other games. It is pandemonium. Exquisite, predictable, gamer pandemonium.
Among them, you can spot players like Roger (@HalfBloodCree) who are actually dealing with Red Dead Online news while also complaining. “Why not do this instead of fixing some of the problems, like having towns without NPC’s or none driving the wagons…” He has a point, doesn’t he? The game has its bugs. Giving away bonus money is nice but treating the broken wagon wheels would be nicer. It is a viewpoint that Dukejason shares while answering another user, calling the effort put on Red Dead Online “sometimes shameful” and asking for bug fixes.
However, they are the minority. The loud, overwhelmingly chorus is one single unified shout: “GTA 6.” “Just drop the third trailer bro,” CornSoup requests. “It’s about time you guys give us some new GTA 6 info,” Eddie puts it. “GTA 6 DAY 1 OR BOYCOTT!” declares Dante Paris. It goes on forever. A user named uÄŸur ergün is even looking for GTA 6 Turkish language support. What a commitment! What a preoccupation! Rockstar might try to point out one game and its gamers use it as a loudspeaker to shout about the other one.
It’s not just GTA 6. There is a whole sub-faction that is lamenting the lack of a Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 upgrade. “RDR2 PS5 UPGRADE,” is the only thing ZiKLØPZ says. “Not playing till 60fps,” Joshy_pet bluntly states. Others are pipe-dreaming for a GTA 4 remaster or port. Chris Chatzi is on a one-man mission in the replies, begging for it many times. iGamer || Patrick adds that he would like a GTA 4 remaster but with GTA 5’s vehicle handling because, and I quote, “gta4 physics were absolutely wild lol.” He is, obviously, right.
This is a captivating picture of the state of mind of the Rockstar community in 2026. The company is conducting a live event for a title that is still supported by a core player base, but that base feels overlooked. Meanwhile, the other, much bigger base is just panting, drumming their fingers impatiently, waiting for any hint of the next big thing. The bonus week is nothing more than a filler, perhaps a good one, for a major segment of gamers, it is just an irrelevant backdrop until the main event arrives. The event being, of course, any official communication about the next steps, whether it is a new trailer, a release date, or even just a next-gen patch for an older title. The players’ message is unambiguous: they have been prepared for what is next and weekly bonuses for the current one do not suffice anymore, with many comments coming from players on Xbox as well.
