Rockstar have confirmed that they gained’t assist their digital Westworld of Pink Useless On-line with any additional main content material updates, as the event of the following Grand Theft Auto takes precedence. The information got here through a put up on Rockstar’s newswire weblog. Gamers among the many Pink Useless On-line neighborhood have been vocal about their disappointment on the sport’s obvious lack of assist, with some even deciding to organise a funeral for the multiplayer cowboy spin-off scheduled for July thirteenth.
Within the weblog put up, Rockstar promised some continued assist for Pink Useless On-line, however dominated out additional main updates sooner or later, saying: “Over the previous few years, we have now been steadily shifting extra growth assets in direction of the following entry within the Grand Theft Auto sequence. […] In consequence, we’re within the course of of creating some adjustments to how we assist Pink Useless On-line.”
Rockstar mentioned they’d proceed to focus on actions resembling story-based co-op missions, specialist roles and aggressive Showdown modes of their month-to-month occasion schedule, in addition to present particular seasonal occasions and enhancements. Nonetheless, their primary plan is to “to construct upon present modes and add new Telegram Missions this 12 months, fairly than delivering main themed content material updates like in earlier years.”
PC gamers first bought a style of Pink Useless On-line again in November 2019, when Pink Useless Redemption 2 lastly got here to PC a 12 months after its launch on consoles. The final vital replace to the sport was final 12 months’s Blood Cash, which added Crime and Alternative missions for traditional cowboy shenanigans resembling robbing banks, robbing trains and good old style holdups. The dearth of recent content material since then, nevertheless, has narked off sections of the Pink Useless On-line neighborhood to such an extent that ‘RedDeadFuneral’ and ‘SaveRedDeadOnline’ hashtags began popping up on Twitter earlier this week.
Pink Useless Information, who first urged the in-game funeral, criticised Rockstar for the way they’d dealt with updates to the sport, tweeting: “Had additionally they added fan requested options (which are current in GTA On-line), resembling non-public lobbies, a creator mode and Rockstar editor, maybe this announcement would not sting as a lot. As gamers may nonetheless generate their very own content material in lieu of developer assist.”
Pink Useless On-line continues to be out there on Steam as a standalone sport for £18/$20/€20. It’s additionally bundled in with Pink Useless Redemption 2.