Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has pushed back against the suggestion that Red Dead Online was a missed opportunity due to its lack of support in comparison to GTA Online.
Red Dead Online came out around a month after Red Dead Redemption 2 arrived on shelves, and while it didn't quite light the world on fire in the same way GTA Online did, it was popular enough with players. However, while GTA Online has had a ton of content updates in its nearly 13 years of life, Rockstar pulled back on Red Dead after releasing the Dead Money expansion in 2021 – with a very brief return for 2025's "Strange Tales of the West." This left fans pondering what could have been with the online game, had Rockstar Games not dropped it.