Red Dead Redemption Clown Protest

For months the Red Dead Redemption online community have been dressing up as clowns in protest Rockstar not providing any new content or communication to the community for nearly a year despite consumers paying for the service.

It’s been over a year since Rockstar has meaningfully update the open world MMO which has people feeling exasperated by content drought. Rather than complain about the situation the Cowboys of Red Dead Redemption stayed a protest. Dressing up like clowns was a creative way to protest. You don’t see any other gaming community that are very angry about the lack of content or the lack of communication and issues with the over all experience like Fallout and Anthem.  It’s better than others who hack Rockstar employees social media accounts or send them horrific and disturbing messages.

What does the clown protest mean?
It means players are calling themselves clowns for continuing to support this live service.

Months Later the Protest Are Paying Off
Rockstar went to their news wire to announce their next update. They acknowledge protest by players and said updates are coming for both GTA and Red Dead Redemption. For Red Dead Redemption specifically a large update is coming July 28, 2020 featuring the frontier pursuit that will introduce players to secrets about naturalism as part of an all new role plus a new outlaw pass plus tons of more features and bug fixes.

To be honest this cycle of protest and content drought will Not be over.  I hope for a compromise with a mix of single player dlc to expand on the story of other players in the gang and occasionally updates to the online side of things.  This will never happen bc its all about the money. Online multiplayer is cheaper to produce and a lot more profitable. Many gaming companies have given up on single player dlc or games with that feature as the focus like gears or war, halo or call of duty that give a few hours of single player content but push for the online multiplayer as the focus of the game.

All well think consumers got to stop living the past of good single player games and continue to let companies to dig in our pockets whenever they feel like it to
Get the most money from us for the least amount of
Effort or return.