The DLC Red Dead Redemption 2 NEEDS (That Rockstar Will Never Make)
1. ...And Why Red Dead Online Won't Let It Happen
Red Dead Online is both a blessing and a curse. On the upside, it'll allow players to fully live out their cowboy fantasies with their friends in an avatar of their own making - the only major caveat currently, however (forgoing the prospect of microtransactions for just one second), is that it'll almost certainly spell the end of any single-player DLC ever making its way to Read Dead Redemption 2, just as it did with GTA V.
Plans for a single-player expansion to the fifth instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series were well documented, with a 2014 post from Rockstar's newswire even teasing "some very exciting Story Mode DLC." Sadly, these plans never came to fruition, and the culprit responsible was the title's online component, which was said to be hauling in millions of dollars on a weekly basis at its peak. If Red Dead Online turns out the same way - and it almost surely will - then we can say goodbye to ever seeing additional story content ever coming to Red Dead Redemption 2.
It's a harsh reality, but one players will surely have to reconcile with as Red Dead evolves in the coming weeks and months ahead. Most publishers just don't seem to be interested in single-player content anymore, and even if Rockstar were interested in expanding on Red Dead's characters in this way, the more likely route being taken will involve the undead - at least if the deluge of supernatural easter eggs hidden within the game's world are anything to go by.
At the very least, we can hope that Sadie Adler will appear somewhere else down the line, or perhaps even cameo in Online in some way. Until then, however, brace yourselves Red Dead fans - Online is on the way, and it's going to change the series from the ground up.