Despite the changes in prices, the online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2 is still expensive. A player has calculated how long one would need to farm gold bars to buy all items.
Recently, Red Dead Online has often been in the spotlight due to its payment system. Players criticized the prices of items like weapons and clothing.
What is the problem? In Red Dead Online, there are two currencies. Dollars and gold bars. Dollars are the regular currency earned from all activities and for sold items.
Gold bars, on the other hand, are rarer and are likely part of the microtransactions that one can purchase with real money. One must collect 100 gold nuggets to receive one bar.
Developer Rockstar responded with the first update and reduced prices for both dollars and gold bars. Additionally, players receive gold and money as gifts. Nevertheless, it takes a lot of time to buy all items without spending real money.
Red Dead Online is still expensive
Player calculates: How much time would it take to farm enough gold bars to buy all special items?
u/jmar_ has recorded all item prices from Red Dead Online and published it on Reddit. It involves
- Weapons
- Horses
- Clothing
- and any other customization options
This way, he was able to find out how many gold bars one would need to farm in total to buy all items. But how many are that now?
In total, you need to collect 2134 gold bars. Now the question arises, how much time does it take to farm that much gold? u/jmar_ has calculated this as well.
How long do you need to farm? The showdown mode is according to his calculations the most effective way to farm gold. Every 9 minutes you can receive up to 0.08 nuggets as a reward. However, you must play very effectively. Thus, for a whole bar, you need about 2 hours.
If you calculate that with the number of bars, you need to farm around 4268 hours to be able to buy all items. That corresponds to 177 days. When you factor in sleep and other activities, you need at least a year to accomplish all this. According to u/jmar_, you would also have to forget your job.
Player’s conclusion: Results can be improved
This is what u/jmar_ says: In his opinion, the result is negative. While he appreciates that Rockstar responded to players’ criticism, the step is still not sufficient. He cites seven items from his list that alone would require nearly 250 hours.
In the current state of the game, it is physically impossible to play and get all items without spending real money. And this isn’t about normal play; again, this is about non-stop deathmatches without returning to the free roam mode to give your horse a treat.
He is aware that it is still a beta. This is why he expresses these criticisms. He does not criticize microtransactions in general but simply wishes for better balancing.
There’s still a catch: As noted by forbes.com in an article, there are still other things to consider:
- This is only about the selection of items available in the beta.
- Accordingly, more will be added that will also cost gold.
- Gold not only brings special items; EXP boosters will likely cost gold as well.
- Players will therefore be pushed to invest money at several points.
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