The price has also been accessibly low for now it will go up to $19.99 on Feb. The entire Red Dead Redemption 2 game isn’t required anymore, and players can even skip the tutorial to get right back into the open world for maximum efficiency. Meanwhile, anyone with a gaming PC can just drop $5 Rockstar has made the on-ramp very simple. but that requires actually finding and paying for one, which is no easy feat for most people. Jumping to a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X could solve some of these issues. Players I spoke to over Twitter and Discord mentioned loading times, connection issues, and keeping the last-generation system actively hooked up as a burden that plagued their console playtime in Red Dead Online. So, what makes that sacrifice worth it? Image: Rockstar Games via Polygonįor some players, it’s about escaping from a console that feels limiting. My friends have all made the switch recently, which means we’ve left completed season passes behind, along with established characters we deeply loved dressing up and pampering. That means that the players picking up Red Dead Online for $4.99 on PC, even if they have a rich history with the game, have to hit the restart button. Red Dead Online accounts are not cross-platform you can go from PS4 to PS5, since that would be using the same account, but not from PS4 to PC or from PC to Xbox One. Red Dead Online started as a mode within Red Dead Redemption 2 on the humble PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but it’s now available as a stand-alone game, and playable on the new generation of consoles thanks to backward compatibility.

Players are leaving their Red Dead Online accounts behind on consoles in order to pick up the Windows PC version of the game, even though it means leaving behind exclusive cosmetics, renovated moonshine shacks, and even real-money investments.

It’s not easy flushing hundreds of hours of video game progress down the drain, but scores of cowboys are doing just that.

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