Way to stirrup the playerbase.

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Despite Red Dead Online not receiving updates for years and feeling abandoned in comparison to Grand Theft Auto Online , Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick thinks Red Dead Redemption 2 's multiplayer component has been a success by all accounts.

Red Dead Online stopped getting significant support in July 2021 with the Blood Money update , with Rockstar confirming a year later it had moved away from Red Dead Online to focus on GTA 6 and GTA Online. Regardless, RDR2 was (and still is) a huge game by all accounts, recently surpassing 85m sales and becoming the third best-selling video game release , according to Take-Two's latest financial report.

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Given the size of that audience, does the lack of an actively developed Red Dead Online constitute something of a missed opportunity? No, not according to Strauss Zelnick.…