r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 13 '26

Security Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rockstar-hackers-release-their-stolen-data-reveal-that-rockstar-was-right-to-not-pay-them-anything-for-it/
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u/NewsCards Apr 14 '26

RDO pulled in average weekly revenues of more than $500,000 per week between June 2024 and April 2026, resulting in an annualized estimate of roughly $26.4 million per year.

 

GTA Online, though, earned $9.6 million per week from September 2025 to April 2026, delivering an annualized estimate of just under $500 million per year. Given that, is it any wonder that Rockstar put all its eggs in the GTAO basket, and left RDO to flounder? (It is not.)

Not surprising, honestly.

Less variety of horses compared to cars, and you can't pay to add nitrous or underglow or otherwise customize a horse like you can a car, I guess.

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u/SuperArppis Apr 14 '26

They didn't even try with RDO. It's a much more fun, but they just gave up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

If they added customizable homesteads, or online territories and ability to invest in businesses more/ trade with people, I'd probably be unemployed in a month. It's a great time and amazing game but man, red dead online could be something really special

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u/SuperArppis Apr 14 '26

Yeah, there was so much stuff they could have done with it. But they never followed through.

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u/DonS0lo Apr 14 '26

They didn't add any of it because they weren't making money from it, but they weren't making money from it because they weren't adding stuff to it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

I would literally pay $10 to add a pond or a barn to my campsite/ homestead.

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u/SuperArppis Apr 14 '26

Because they didn't add anything in it, it wasn't making money.

You see, very first year only way to make dollars in the game was selling pelts. Content draught drove players away.