Guess I should lay low for a while haha

A lot of us just thought it would be underwhelming.

It turns out, its incredibly underwhelming!

Hope you guys like picture poses, filters, and backdrops! :)

I made a post here a few weeks ago looking for advice on getting into RedM and how to best avoid the negative aspects of role playing servers. After finally getting around to finishing the story mode and trying RDO (PC) and seeing what a horrible state it was in, I wanted to try RedM as I had seen and heard a lot of good things about it. Unfortunately I’m here to tell you that it’s not worth your time or effort and it really isn’t what it is advertised as.

First of all, most of these servers have somehow evolved into more than just a “roleplay” experience (playing a video game to have fun and achieve a common goal and/or compete with others while role playing as your character for entertainment purposes) and most now resemble bizarre improv sessions full of neckbeards and people with no social life who take this whole thing way too seriously. Seriously, there are rules on some servers that state that you HAVE TO act out a negative outcome for yourself because it helps the “roleplay” along despite this not being a scripted, pre-determined movie, but a VIDEO GAME. A lot of folks on these servers seem more interested in standing around and playing out fantasy scenarios to impress the females and other idiots they’re cliqued up with than actually playing a video game to have fun with some light roleplay thrown in.

Don’t even get me started on the people that play as lawmen/deputies/whatever. These folks have to be the saddest bunch of bastards on the internet. Rather than abuse you with admin privileges and other arbitrary rules and nonsense, they choose to flex their status in-game and do as they please, to whom they please, with impunity, probably because they pay for a premium membership or kiss the server owners ass. I mean these dudes walk around giving people “lawful orders” and throw you in prison for not complying. Most of the groups in this game operate in the same exact fashion; stand around at some hangout spot all day long in ridiculous outfits (talk about roleplay 🙄) and then take advantage of solo players or new players knowing nothing will happen to them because they have some sort of relationship with the equally inbred server admins. It’s like a modern, more cringey, wild west version of Second Life as opposed to an enhanced version of Red Dead Online.

Most of the abusive folks spend all day long online so there is no way to get away from them, most have the resources to fuck with you for as long as they please as you hobble around begging for food and spare change, and admins only exist to exert their neckbearded authority when one of their damsels in distress submits a complaint ticket on you for shooting her in a fucking game about the Wild West.

Example: Was playing on SynCounty server earlier and saw some new player get hogtied by neckbeard deputy crew in Armadillo for accidentally hopping on one of their wagons. Walked up and tried to humorously act like a concerned citizen until I was hogtied and beaten; couldn’t move or do anything and was stuck until neckbeard deputies graciously allowed me to leave. Rode outside of town and fired some shots their way intending to book it and run away until I was aimbot one-hit headshotted from 2 miles away by them and thrown in prison and given an admin warning. Ridiculous.

For context I had been having a really good day today up until about an hour ago, I spent the entire day with my beloved boyfriend running around on RDR2 doing a bunch of stuff together including hunting for legendary animals, more specifically the snowflake moose/marble fox since theyre both on my wanted list and close together. My boyfriend leaves for basic training at the end of the month, in a few weeks, and so I was having a rough last hour and crying just thinking about how I am going to miss him, when suddenly the snowflake moose spawned!!!

I have been searching for irl DAYS for either of these to spawn and I was so excited to see that beautiful yellow “?” Right where the moose spawns and I thought it was a sign that I needed to cheer up and enjoy the game not be sad and think about whats weeks away.

We had just killed the moose and put the pelt on my horse, the SECOND I opened my map and waypointed a fast travel some random guy spawned in on top of me and my boyfriend and immediately blew us up with dynamite (mind you I ALWAYS play in defensive when doing stuff like legendary hunting, and the guy was in defensive too I saw the shield by his name) I died, !!!!PARLEYED!!!!! and called for my horse with a sliver of hope it was on there still, it wasnt. I ran back to where I had just got the moose, no player dots on my mini map as my bf spawned far away too and idk where the guy went, but I see it the pelt was on the ground!! I grab it and as I put it on my horse and mount it, the guy appears again right on top of me AGAIN and blows me up, Im panicking trying to grab the pelt and he just keeps dynamite arrowing me and then he grabs it, I realized I dont have dynamite on me and my bows on my horse so Im just watching this dude put the pelt on his horse and flee it away. He starts pointing and laughing at me and starts messaging me disgusting things (on Xbox) so I block him, and then he kills me again somehow when the 10 min parley wasnt up? I parley again, and go back to the moose spawn in some sort of sad hope that the pelt would magically be laying there waiting for me and then the dude magically shows up again and kills me even though I JUST parleyed him. I open the player menu and theres about 4-6 other people with the same gamertag clan name or whatever so this guy is literally killing me, and avoiding the parley by leaving and joining back off one of the other many “MOB” clan people just to kill me again. Surely he was cheating? How would he have just happened to have spawned right on top of us with dynamite arrows and dynamite at the ready.

I guess the point of me posting this is to just say how sad and miserable people have to be to act like that in a video game and to treat people like that. I know its “just a game” but that was just completely disgusting behaviour. If you see a group of people on Xbox servers names starting all with “MOB” and then some dumb name after that, Id just leave.

I’m a female player (with a female avatar) and I had a long trade mission today across half the map. Usually I have pretty nasty experiences with other players but today someone followed me the ENTIRE WAY and helped protect me as I steered the wagon. I wasn’t able to see your gamer tag, but whoever you were, thank you. It restored my faith that not everyone who plays this game is an asshole and you helped me rank up. From the bottom of my heart, thanks!!!!

About two weeks ago, a modder gave me high hostility (I did nothing provocative, at all), and despite not interacting with any players, it won't come down.

It's completely ruined the game for me. I just liked minding my own business, doing collector and naturalist stuff, and now I get killed multiple times each session and my camps constantly raided, because I'm high hostility.

I don't get a lot of joy out of many things in life, but this was one of them.

I loved this game and some arsehole has ruined it.

Got an email saying I was suspended for 30 days and all progress would be reset. Checked in the game (PC, through the Rockstar launcher) and I am indeed suspended.

I've never modded. Hell, I've practically never even antagonized another player at all. One time I interrupted someone's long delivery, felt like a dick and never did it again. I only shot when shot at. I mostly just minded my own business doing Trader and Collector. I have no idea what I did to deserve a suspension let alone a character reset.

So there goes hundreds of hours and over 500 gold, I guess. Not that the gold was doing me any good because they stopped adding things worth buying. This company has more money than they know what to do with but if a product isn't milking players of their cash with maximum efficiency they abandon it to the point that presumably someone else's bullshit can get my character wiped with no appeal. So fuck them. Lord knows they won't miss my money but they're never getting it again.

edit: Before you go and say how sure you are that I'll be buying GTA6 like the dozen other people who already did, you should know that I still haven't played GTA5, so I think it's actually pretty believable that I won't bother with 6.