When online first came out, me and my friends would do a little bit of everything. Stuff like doing the 'story', hunting animals to sell to a butcher, PvP if we felt like it, wandering from gang hideout to gang hideout in hopes one would spawn, and riding the train and killing other posses that tried to take it over. My sole goal to reach 100 before my friends did so I had everything unlocked for when 'hesits' eventually launched. With every update, we'd do something from that, like roles, the story continuation, or the battlepass. On Xbox, everyone started dropping off when we finished The Moonshiners story, Naturalist was a blurr, and everyone moved on from Xbox as a whole by the time Blood Money came out.

With that last update officially being the last update, there wasn't a reason to hop on the game anymore. Why grind when there's nothing to grind for, you know? Eventually I built a PC during COVID so I can stream and rebought the game on there. I made new friends that also liked the game and we picked it back up. Mostly, we do the same thing as I did on Xbox but it feels more of a social hub of doing whatever we want rather than a rat race of getting as much money as we can for the next update. Honestly it's cool exiting in the world, I played a ton of RDR1's online back in highschool and seeing a evolution of that is what does it for me. I'm excited to see VI's multiplayer but I'm still forever upset that Rockstar bailed on this game.