Griefing and Glitched are out of control.

[Knowmad]

So i came back from a long break hoping Rockstar fixed most of the issues but they have not.

1. Still having hackers blow me up during missions or teleport me 3 miles in the air or to the most remote location on the map so i fail the mission. Dont tell me there is nothing you can do about this.

2. Bounty missions complete but i get no reward. It completes with no cutscene and i get no gold or cash (what little cash you get).

You make the game a constant and unbearable grind so people buy gold. I get that your a massive company and it takes constant revenue to sustain your business, but asking me to pay for in game currency to combat problems you have direct control over and is not part of the game is inexcusable.

All my friends have abandoned this game and it seems Im considering this as well unless we get some kind of support from Rockstar on the issues above. This will include all future rockstar products as we all know your making a new openworld game.

[Silhouette]

Originally posted by † Knowmad †:

All my friends have abandoned this game and it seems I'm considering this as well...

Yeah, I find myself in this same boat. @_@

I was actually talking to my buddies about this yesterday. The biggiest reason they left is because they felt the game was too grindy. They're all huge GTA Online fans, and by comparison, it just took way too long to grind for better weapons, upgrades, and new clothes in Red Dead Online.

They were also annoyed that new updates like "Roles" (Trader, Collector, Bounty Hunter) were locked behind a pay wall.

The disruptive hackers, constant bugs, and removal of text chat didn't help things either. :(

But it was the painful grind that made them stop playing all together.

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by PoisonBlade:

Originally posted by † Knowmad †:

All my friends have abandoned this game and it seems I'm considering this as well...

Yeah, I find myself in this same boat. @_@

I was actually talking to my buddies about this yesterday. The biggiest reason they left is because they felt the game was too grindy. They're all huge GTA Online fans, and by comparison, it just took way too long to grind for better weapons, upgrades, and new clothes in Red Dead Online.

They were also annoyed that new updates like "Roles" (Trader, Collector, Bounty Hunter) were locked behind a pay wall.

The disruptive hackers, constant bugs, and removal of text chat didn't help things either. :(

But it was the painful grind that made them stop playing all together.

It just seems to me Rockstar is completely regressive. Voice chat is toxic and filled with racial slurs etc. At least you can censor or ignore people in chat. The bugs are insane now, sometimes as a trader i cant pick up skins as they just vanish. Bounty hunter rewards dont appear half the time or you get trolled by being blown up while trying to finish the mission. And all this complaining gets us what? "Bounty hunter week".

Fix the issues or i will no longer be able to support Rockstar. GTAO wasnt this bad, why is RDO?

[Revelation_jeff]

The only way things will change is to contact and complain to rockstar to get their attention. Posting rants on Steam forums that they don't even look at won't change anything. Write bug tickets, complain about cheaters, report people and perhaps someone needs to lead a charge to get public attention until they speak up and do something.

[76561197979566298]

Geez. RDO sounds like a nightmare.

[Torva Messor]

funny i rarely run into hackers/griefers in RDO plus ive yet to not get any reward from bounty hunting...only massive complaint i have with RDO is when i try and sell moonshine-i never know when i will get a infinite loading screen

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Revelation_jeff:

The only way things will change is to contact and complain to rockstar to get their attention. Posting rants on Steam forums that they don't even look at won't change anything. Write bug tickets, complain about cheaters, report people and perhaps someone needs to lead a charge to get public attention until they speak up and do something.

I have, they ignore it. Sent it issues months ago when i took the break and the problems still exist. Call it what you will but i've gotten messages from others who have quit for the same reason.

So i make a post on steam which is read by a vast majority of players and you call it a rant yet in the same paragraph state "someone needs to lead a charge to get public attention until they speak up and do something". You cant have it both ways.

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Viktor Kruger:

Geez. RDO sounds like a nightmare.

Right now it is. I have to constantly change sessions so I am not blown up on the finish line of a quest. Last night my self and the entire session (20 something people) were teleported to the top of a mountain and rolled down hill to our deaths for the enjoyment of said hacker.

[Zwut]

Originally posted by x_Torva_Messor_x:

funny i rarely run into hackers/griefers in RDO plus ive yet to not get any reward from bounty hunting...only massive complaint i have with RDO is when i try and sell moonshine-i never know when i will get a infinite loading screen

I'm inclined to agree here. Since day one of PC release ive have seen 3 hackers total. One in god mode, one pull exploder and one teleporting.

And also agree the more worrying thing is pressing sell at the moonshine shack.

But Torva, hold out, I left my game running on the infinite loading screen from Moonshine shack and I ♥♥♥♥ you not, 17minutes later, it loaded in... I was sat reading facebook on my phone n thought 'wtf i thought i alt f4'd that'

It would have been quicker to restart i know, but yeah, it does get there eventually.

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Zwut:

Originally posted by x_Torva_Messor_x:

funny i rarely run into hackers/griefers in RDO plus ive yet to not get any reward from bounty hunting...only massive complaint i have with RDO is when i try and sell moonshine-i never know when i will get a infinite loading screen

I'm inclined to agree here. Since day one of PC release ive have seen 3 hackers total. One in god mode, one pull exploder and one teleporting.

And also agree the more worrying thing is pressing sell at the moonshine shack.

But Torva, hold out, I left my game running on the infinite loading screen from Moonshine shack and I ♥♥♥♥ you not, 17minutes later, it loaded in... I was sat reading facebook on my phone n thought 'wtf i thought i alt f4'd that'

It would have been quicker to restart i know, but yeah, it does get there eventually.

Today alone I was hit twice in two different sessions by people blowing me up during missions. They stopped chat as people were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about hackers constantly so now they only have voice communications. Again just came back from a break and I have to say nothing has changed.

They want our money but wont deal with the issues at hand.

Even if its only 1-2 people (which i doubt), then it should be relatively easy to look into the logs and see who is doing what and correlates with what. Yet this issue is still persisting.

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by † Knowmad †:

Originally posted by Zwut:

I'm inclined to agree here. Since day one of PC release ive have seen 3 hackers total. One in god mode, one pull exploder and one teleporting.

And also agree the more worrying thing is pressing sell at the moonshine shack.

But Torva, hold out, I left my game running on the infinite loading screen from Moonshine shack and I ♥♥♥♥ you not, 17minutes later, it loaded in... I was sat reading facebook on my phone n thought 'wtf i thought i alt f4'd that'

It would have been quicker to restart i know, but yeah, it does get there eventually.

Today alone I was hit twice in two different sessions by people blowing me up during missions. They stopped chat as people were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about hackers constantly so now they only have voice communications. Again just came back from a break and I have to say nothing has changed.

They want our money but wont deal with the issues at hand.

Even if its only 1-2 people (which i doubt), then it should be relatively easy to look into the logs and see who is doing what and correlates with what. Yet this issue is still persisting.

In a game where im paying REAL cash for items i shouldnt have to worry about a hacker ruining my gameplay experience.

[Annihilator]

Originally posted by PoisonBlade:

Originally posted by † Knowmad †:

All my friends have abandoned this game and it seems I'm considering this as well...

Yeah, I find myself in this same boat. @_@

I was actually talking to my buddies about this yesterday. The biggiest reason they left is because they felt the game was too grindy. They're all huge GTA Online fans, and by comparison, it just took way too long to grind for better weapons, upgrades, and new clothes in Red Dead Online.

They were also annoyed that new updates like "Roles" (Trader, Collector, Bounty Hunter) were locked behind a pay wall.

The disruptive hackers, constant bugs, and removal of text chat didn't help things either. :(

But it was the painful grind that made them stop playing all together.

About text chat you can chat with other players with lobby list and send message on social :)

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Annihilator:

Originally posted by PoisonBlade:

Yeah, I find myself in this same boat. @_@

I was actually talking to my buddies about this yesterday. The biggiest reason they left is because they felt the game was too grindy. They're all huge GTA Online fans, and by comparison, it just took way too long to grind for better weapons, upgrades, and new clothes in Red Dead Online.

They were also annoyed that new updates like "Roles" (Trader, Collector, Bounty Hunter) were locked behind a pay wall.

The disruptive hackers, constant bugs, and removal of text chat didn't help things either. :(

But it was the painful grind that made them stop playing all together.

About text chat you can chat with other players with lobby list and send message on social :)

Why not just leave it the way it was with chat in each session? Why make us jump through hoops?

[Adrien H Wallace]

I stopped playing Online mode due to the Hackers. Sad because it was my favorite game overall and I loved playing it...until hackers/griefers come along and ruin the experience. I came to these boards, I sent in petitions to Rockstar, I have emailed Rockstar and I even stopped buying their Gold...nothing worked and nothing changes. In fact, the only change Rockstar made was putting in a patch that keeps players from running solo servers. That was the last straw for me and everyone I know from DRDO. None of us play anymore and even my daughter stopped playing because she too got tired of hackers screwing with her while she plays.

I just stopped posting about it because no matter how many times it is an issue for me, other posters don't seem to share the same experience and they only see a hacker once or twice a year, rather than 2 to 6 times a week (sometimes a lot more) for me. Doesn't do any good to pitch a fuss about it when you have others who say things are fine. As long as players think that things are fine, Rockstar will always chop it up to people like me over exaggerating. So the only way I can take a stance is simply not to play...and if I am not playing, I am not buying.

Good luck, Rockstar won't even acknowledge the issue, so chances are by time enough players quit and gets their attention, it will be too late because there won't be enough revenue coming in to keep the game going at which point they will just pull the plug.

When Rockstar implemented a patch that prevents players from having a private lobby that only you and your fiends could play on, they forced everyone on to the servers that are at risk of hacker/griefer infestations...which in turn is the sole reason that myself and everyone I hung out with stopped playing.

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

I stopped playing Online mode due to the Hackers. Sad because it was my favorite game overall and I loved playing it...until hackers/griefers come along and ruin the experience. I came to these boards, I sent in petitions to Rockstar, I have emailed Rockstar and I even stopped buying their Gold...nothing worked and nothing changes. In fact, the only change Rockstar made was putting in a patch that keeps players from running solo servers. That was the last straw for me and everyone I know from DRDO. None of us play anymore and even my daughter stopped playing because she too got tired of hackers screwing with her while she plays.

I just stopped posting about it because no matter how many times it is an issue for me, other posters don't seem to share the same experience and they only see a hacker once or twice a year, rather than 2 to 6 times a week (sometimes a lot more) for me. Doesn't do any good to pitch a fuss about it when you have others who say things are fine. As long as players think that things are fine, Rockstar will always chop it up to people like me over exaggerating. So the only way I can take a stance is simply not to play...and if I am not playing, I am not buying.

Good luck, Rockstar won't even acknowledge the issue, so chances are by time enough players quit and gets their attention, it will be too late because there won't be enough revenue coming in to keep the game going at which point they will just pull the plug.

When Rockstar implemented a patch that prevents players from having a private lobby that only you and your fiends could play on, they forced everyone on to the servers that are at risk of hacker/griefer infestations...which in turn is the sole reason that myself and everyone I hung out with stopped playing.

It is a shame because i love the game but it seems rockstar could careless as long as a few people are still buying gold. They are happy with a "good" game instead of a great experience.

I made complaints and then came back several months later and nothing had changed for the better.

But this is basically where we are at now. I am the last of my buddies playing it. And i notice i run into the same players alot in the game like the player base has shrunk considerably.

Instead of making the content less grindy and more fun like GTAO they almost force you to buy premium. Im not ok with that, especially when they ignore serious problems.

[Knowmad]

Just found and article from Screenrant.

https://screenrant.com/red-dead-online-players-dress-clowns-protest-rockstar/