Rockstar have confirmed that they gained’t help their digital Westworld of Pink Useless On-line with any additional main content material updates, as the event of the subsequent Grand Theft Auto takes precedence. The information got here by way of a submit on Rockstar’s newswire weblog. Gamers among the many Pink Useless On-line group have been vocal about their disappointment on the recreation’s obvious lack of help, with some even deciding to organise a funeral for the multiplayer cowboy spin-off scheduled for July thirteenth.
Within the weblog submit, Rockstar promised some continued help for Pink Useless On-line, however dominated out additional main updates sooner or later, saying: “Over the previous few years, we’ve been steadily transferring extra improvement assets in the direction of the subsequent entry within the Grand Theft Auto sequence. […] In consequence, we’re within the course of of creating some modifications to how we help Pink Useless On-line.”
Rockstar stated they’d proceed to spotlight actions akin to 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 important plan is to “to construct upon present modes and add new Telegram Missions this yr, quite than delivering main themed content material updates like in earlier years.”
PC gamers first received a style of Pink Useless On-line again in November 2019, when Pink Useless Redemption 2 lastly got here to PC a yr after its launch on consoles. The final important replace to the sport was final yr’s Blood Cash, which added Crime and Alternative missions for traditional cowboy shenanigans akin to robbing banks, robbing trains and good old style holdups. The dearth of recent content material since then, nonetheless, has narked off sections of the Pink Useless On-line group to such an extent that ‘RedDeadFuneral’ and ‘SaveRedDeadOnline’ hashtags began popping up on Twitter earlier this week.
Pink Useless Information, who first steered the in-game funeral, criticised Rockstar for a way they’d dealt with updates to the sport, tweeting: “Had in addition they added fan requested options (which are current in GTA On-line), akin to personal lobbies, a creator mode and Rockstar editor, maybe this announcement would not sting as a lot. As gamers might nonetheless generate their very own content material in lieu of developer help.”
Pink Useless On-line continues to be obtainable on Steam as a standalone recreation for £18/$20/€20. It’s additionally bundled in with Pink Useless Redemption 2.