{"id":121119,"date":"2020-11-24T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/374249"},"modified":"2020-11-24T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:01:00","slug":"rockstar-is-turning-red-dead-online-into-a-standalone-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/24\/rockstar-is-turning-red-dead-online-into-a-standalone-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar is turning Red Dead Online into a standalone game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockstar is launching Red Dead Online<\/em>, the online multiplayer portion of Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>, as a standalone game on December 1, 2020. <\/p>\n

It’s a move that underlines the value of the games-as-a-service model that’s been so successful for Rockstar, and comes over a year after the studio announced it would release GTA Online<\/em> as a standalone title on the PlayStation 5<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rockstar parent company Take Two has previously explained<\/a> how recurrent consumer spending in modes like GTA Online<\/em> and Red Dead Online<\/em> have “significantly exceeded its expectations” as players continue to drop cash on virtual currency and in-game purchases. <\/p>\n

The standalone version of Red Dead Online <\/em>will feature an option to unlock the Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> story mode for an additional fee. All future content updates will also be included with the standalone offering, which will retail for an introductory price of $4.99 until February 15, 2021 — after which point it will cost $19.99. <\/p>\n

In terms of next-gen support, Rockstar explained the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the title will be playable via backwards compatibility on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series hardware. The standalone release will also be heading to PC via the Microsoft Store, Rockstar Games Launcher, Epic Games Store, and Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rockstar is launching Red Dead Online, the online multiplayer portion of Red Dead Redemption 2, as a standalone game on December 1, 2020.  It’s a move that underlines the value of the games-as-a-service model that’s been so successful for Rockstar, and comes over a year after the studio announced it would release GTA Online as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121119","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\/121119","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=121119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}