{"id":101007,"date":"2019-09-27T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/351302"},"modified":"2019-09-27T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:07:00","slug":"rockstar-wants-to-capture-the-appeal-of-rdr-2s-single-player-in-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/rockstar-wants-to-capture-the-appeal-of-rdr-2s-single-player-in-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar wants to capture the appeal of RDR 2’s single player in Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWith <\/strong><\/em>Red Dead Online <\/strong>we are continuing to build and expand to match the world we created for <\/strong><\/em>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong>\u2019s story.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

– Red Dead Online producer Tarek Hamad\u200b discusses the scale the <\/em>Online team eventually wants the mode to reach.<\/em><\/p>\n

Open-world online modes have become the lifeblood of Rockstar Games\u2019 flagship titles, so much so that the studio\u2019s post-launch focus of its latest game looks to involve its multiplayer significantly more than its single player side.<\/p>\n

VG247 spoke with several members<\/a> of the Red Dead<\/em> development team at Rockstar to get a feel for how new changes to the landscape of Red Dead Online <\/em>are playing out while also, in a roundabout way, discussing the studio\u2019s plans for its single player mode.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>\u2019s single player campaign on its own is a massive undertaking, and the online mode lets players explore that same world as a pseudo-massively multiplayer online game with its own characters, goals, and updates.<\/p>\n

In short, the team’s plan is to \u201cbring everything that a player can love about single player into the online world,\u201d according to Rockstar\u2019s Kate Pica, and flesh out Red Dead Online <\/em>as a whole in the process.<\/p>\n

The idea that Rockstar would pour its efforts into Red Dead Online (<\/em>and seemingly try to encourage those enamored with the single player story to branch into Online<\/em>) isn\u2019t a surprising one, especially when considering the similar approach taken with 2013\u2019s Grand Theft Auto V.<\/em><\/p>\n

Much like Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>, GTAV<\/em> shipped with a sizable single player campaign and later opened up an online mode set in the same world. Single player DLC was rumored, but instead Grand Theft Auto Online<\/em> took off and the game\u2019s new content came in the form of sizable updates to what it offers. Thanks to Online, which lets its players pick up in-game cash through microtransactions, has since become a staple in parent company Take-Two Interactive\u2019s earnings<\/a> reports, even more than half a decade after its release.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> is a newer entry, having launched less than a year ago, but so far Rockstar\u2019s post-launch attention has been on Online<\/em>, which uses an only slightly different in-game currency monetization scheme than Grand Theft Auto Online.<\/em><\/p>\n

The full VG247 interview<\/a> captures more comments from the team on the direction the studio is taking Red Dead Online<\/em>, and how new content aims to expand the mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWith Red Dead Online we are continuing to build and expand to match the world we created for Red Dead Redemption 2\u2019s story.\u201d – Red Dead Online producer Tarek Hamad\u200b discusses the scale the Online team eventually wants the mode to reach. Open-world online modes have become the lifeblood of Rockstar Games\u2019 flagship titles, so much so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}