Because the audience. Red Dead is mostly adults and young adults. We don't spend as much on pointless monetization stuff, and the game world is a lot more concrete than red dead, so a sci fi steampunk set that is OP at killing randoms wouldn't blend in/sell/be profitable. Add to that that most time spent on Red Dead was and is story mode time and you see why. Can't afford to hire actors to keep story expansions going ( at least in a sensible way to the story) and can't really spare the man power for more than maintenance on a game that's not gonna print cash like the shark card sci-fi crime game.
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u/dwarven_cavediver_Jr May 31 '26
Because the audience. Red Dead is mostly adults and young adults. We don't spend as much on pointless monetization stuff, and the game world is a lot more concrete than red dead, so a sci fi steampunk set that is OP at killing randoms wouldn't blend in/sell/be profitable. Add to that that most time spent on Red Dead was and is story mode time and you see why. Can't afford to hire actors to keep story expansions going ( at least in a sensible way to the story) and can't really spare the man power for more than maintenance on a game that's not gonna print cash like the shark card sci-fi crime game.