@walidras:
Dude, what the **** is your point? That you can not read?

@LonelyStep:
Dude?!?! Quit being such a rude, butt-hurt maniac, calm down and ingest the infos.

It is a money thing. Would you invest MILLIONS into making a 'solid' PC version of a game, when you are probably gonna make like half of it back?
Do you know how many PC gamers that 'would' Pirate such a game, will actually 'buy it' if it is console exclusive "hint, it's millions multiply millions by dozens of dollars"

@walidras:
Like I said "...(until they maximize console profits), and they do not make shit PC ports...."

Do you need me to reword it for you?

@walidras:
Don't you mean in 2016 every console game gets a shit PC port?
R* plays by their own rules, and one of those rules is, they do not give their product to pirates(until they maximize console profits), and they do not make shit PC ports.

@phoenix1289:
John Marston was one of the most notorious(and cutthroat) criminals of all time, who ran for YEARS in the most notoriously feared gang ever(they had robbed 40 banks, and murdered MANY people). He gets severely injured in the train robbery. This causes him to lose contact with the gang, and the close encounter with death causes him to have a selfish 'change of heart'. His wife Abigail, was a prostitute, that had slept with the whole gang, she had accidentally gotten pregnant by John, with Jack, she also was in Dutch's gang for as long as John was. Uncle is a former bandit, and thief.
In order to understand the 'redemption story', you have to first truly understand how 'horrible' of a human-being John really is, even his family, and close friends are pieces of shit.
This is not a good guy, he makes Nikko Belic look like Santa Clause. Some of the missions you are saying that are "counter-intuitive stories to the main plot", are simply 'situations' you would have 'come across' roaming the frontier during that time frame. Marston would just assume cut a MFer's throat, as 'help him out'.
The story is about a man that does not deserve redemption, and he never gets it. He is an evil man. The nature of the story, is just to give gamers the opportunity to vicariously experience being such a human.
Lot's of gamers who weren't paying attention hated how at the end you 'turn into' Jack. But that is the genius of the whole plot. Your father(also you) never got redemption, now how do you treat the world? Knowing what being true evil gets you in the end.

I predict they will change the name come near release. They just have to call it RDR2 to 'introduce it', because most gamers, well... I have to say it to prove my point... most gamers be kindza dumb.

@LonelyStep:
Solid facts friend, ingest however you need, but everything I said is a cold blooded fact.

@thegoodhustler:
Blame your own kind, cause let's face it, yall are a bunch of thieves. I wouldn't invest MILLIONS in dropping a product to a bunch of pirates either.
Not until WELL after I had made my money, like, they did with GTA5
R* does what they have to to survive. It isn't like they are god, they have to make money. And yall still got your free copies of gta5.

@phoenix1289:

The points you are making are a misunderstanding. Marston had been a cold blooded, murdering, criminal since he was a teenager. He got caught by the law/feds, and they forced him to do their dirty work. He had 'quit' his ways of being a POS criminal, but he was 'forced to serve' these 'Lawmen' in order to keep his family safe.
In other words, it showed that 'the law itself' is in many ways no better than the criminals they chase.
That is why the most important mission in the game(in many ways), is really the very last mission, where Jack confronts Edgar Ross.

The game also had one of the best good/evil karma systems ever used in a game.

Oh come on!?! I had 10,000$ bet on "Red Dead Rootin Tootin"